Face to meet the faces

Oisín is rarely Oisín these days. Among the parade of generic modern professionals, knights, pirates, and aminals real or imaginary, there are a few I'd like to remember:

• Lovely Fox, who comes from Sherwood Forest (where Oisín often goes to work with Robin Hood, meaning that these visitors can use his room)


• Captain Sausages-in-the-Rigging Bones of the bad ship Glarnay (because the phrase "good ship" clearly can't apply to pirates)


• Princess Green, who is ostentatiously enraptured by Fiachra


• A ghost who loves gardening and would like to be my gardening partner


• A swan who is also a children's author


• A wobicus (I forget what this is a cross between, or what it's notable for, but I like the name)


• An owl who fixes trains


• A very sporty kind of bank manager