The Sleepy Hedgehog Society
of Terribly Important Things

The illustrated archives of an Odd & Scholarly Society who insist they’re perfectly normal, thankyou very much!

I think it's rather lovely to have a part of one’s heart happily lost in the loveliness, magic and wonder of childhood. After all, without that sprinkle of curiosity, imagination and downright mischief, who will save the very-nearly-forgotten-about records of The Sleepy Hedgehog Society of Terribly Important Things from gathering cobwebs and being lost under a mountain of dust?OR, worse still, being bundled away in the mouldy old library owned by spectacle-wearing toad corpses of dubious respectability.

Who's This Sleepy Hedgehog Society Supposed To Be, Then?

In 1956… or perhaps it was 1949... an ensemble of Esteemed Scholars, Theatrical Garden Gnomes and somewhat skilful Hedgehog Field & Hedgerow Agents gathered to discuss and document the perfectly normal goings-on in the Village of Bogglington Hollow.Their motto rather says it all:
Librorum Custodes, Absurdum Observamus
Keepers of the Archives, We Observe the AbsurdBut, as with most things, new-fangled gadgets took over and The Society slowly whittled away. Their bulging filing cabinets and mouldy old trunks left to huddle, all alone and forgotten about, in a gloomy corner of the now ramshackled Weadel Manor, where nobody has stepped foot next to for decades on end…Until…

On a foggy Tuesday morning...

the trunks and filing cabinets were delivered here! To the Royal Bogglington Hollow Museum! Nobody had heard of archives being found, never mind authorising their transfer.With them was a note written in tea, of all things, simply stating, 'When the world becomes far too serious, the Hedgehog Field & Meadow Agents and Theatrical Garden Gnomes from the Documentation will return to investigate, document and make sure the ghosties don't get up to too much mischief. So do keep an eye out.’And gosh! The things we've found within!Everyone at the Royal Museum has been so excited we don't know what to do with ourselves... except drink tea! And rather a lot of it!

Whispers from the Archive of Artefacts & Whatnots

Would you like, perchance, to be amongst the first clap eyes upon these Archives of Oddness and add them to your collection of artefacts?
(We must admit, we can't entirely rule out the presence of cursed trowels, theatrical musings from Garden Gnomes or the occasional small ghost waiting about).
If so, do sign up for our Whispers from the Archive of Artefacts & Whatnots below and we'll pop a monthly newsletter into your inbox, filled with:• Sneak peeks at the odd artefacts we've found while rummaging in amongst the dusty trunks and filing cabinets
• A peer into the history and ways of the Sleepy Hedgehog Society
• Interesting snippets about The Royal Bogglington Hollow Museum (we have a few of our own odd goings-on and ghosts wandering about willy-nilly)
• And, of course, a few odd and curious updates (no nearly-forgotten-about archive, or Museum of note for that matter, could ever be without a few odd and curious updates)It promises to be quite the adventure indeed!

The Sleepy Hedgehog Society
OF TERRIBLY IMPORTANT THINGS
(And Occasionally Less Important But Rather Interesting Things)
-------© All content copyright Louisa Hamilton White 2025.
Curator of Teas, Oddities and Matters of Dubious Whatnots
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-------We love the scratching of pencils on paper and the oddness that comes out of our noggins far too much to ever use AI.Sleepy Hedgehog Society
P.o. Box 7044 Beaumaris 3193
Victoria, Australia
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22 Smushy Brook Lane
The Village of Bogglington Hole
England BL0 0GH- Please post all correspondence to our Beaumaris address -