Sheila Sheep's giraffe dream

How funny, I was just telling you about my silly dancing crocodile dream yesterday and guess what ?

This morning I had a letter from Sheila Sheep who lives at the seaside. She wrote to  me about a strange, scary dream that she had earlier this week. She told me that she had woken up with her heart beating fast in the middle of the night, she was feeling afraid  because she had just had a dream or maybe it was a nightmare, of a big giraffe trying to get into her bedroom window. In the dream the giraffe, who actually was quite beautiful and nothing to be scared of really, was knocking his nose on the window and suddenly the window broke and he jumped in and started to leap awkwardly around her room. Again, in her dream she hid under her bed covers and was terrified. Sheila was just about to cry out for help when she woke up and looked around believing the dream to be real. Of course it wasn't real and there was no giraffe to be seen. It is strange though, as I know in real life Sheila Sheep loves giraffes and she does know that there is nothing to be afraid of. How funny that both myself and my old friend Sheila Sheep both had  interesting dreams this week.

What an amazing birthday party!

What an absolutely wonderfully amazing birthday party I had yesterday. Thank you all so much for sharing it with me. Clover Cottage looked so beautiful, full of multicoloured balloons and vases of flowers that Mango so kindly gathered from my garden. I had such a lovely surprise, all of my closest relatives came from their fields near and far. They were in such a happy mood and had such fun dancing the conga all around my garden. We all laughed and clapped with joy.

Then it was the turn of all the pigs from the farm at the end of Wiggleway Lane. They all danced in a long long conga line too. Oh what fun we all had watching them. It was so exciting that we all joined in, and our conga line spilled over into Wiggleway Lane. I hope we didn't disturb my neighbour the farmer. Oh how we all enjoyed ourselves. We had rainbow coloured cupcakes and we played all our favourite party games. I knew a surprise was coming to me, and Pearl told me to close my eyes. Everyone gathered around and became very, very quiet. Even the birds in the trees had closed their beaks. Even the frogs in the pond had stopped croaking. Even the caterpillars had stopped munching the lettuce. Even the hedgehogs had stopped rustling in the leaves. There was perfect silence. All of a sudden everyone started to sing:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR SHERBET

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

I opened my eyes, and, oh my goodness, there stood two beautiful fairies holding a stupendous birthday cake. I could not believe my eyes, the cake was so huge and full of all the colours of the rainbow. Pearl cut the cake and Doodle and Mango handed everyone a scrumptious piece each. It was such a lovely cake, I think it was called a fairy cake. How so very kind of my best friends to do this for me. I am so very blessed and I am so very grateful to have such wonderful friends, both old and new and how lovely to see all my relatives again. My old friends Reginald Rabbit, Kathy Cat, Milly Mouse, Kizzie the horse, Sheila Sheep and Mark Mole stayed the night cosily in my cottage as they came from far far away. Thank you all for coming to my party. It was so wonderful.  You know you are always most welcome. Love Sherbet x

Sherbet counts sheep to fall asleep

Last night I could not get to sleep, maybe I was thinking too much about who could have left me the red rose. It was very beautiful and it did not come from my garden as I only have one pink rose. I have not seen Pearl yet to ask her what she thinks. Anyway as I could not sleep I thought to myself what can I do to make myself sleep. I remembered my grandfather telling me that whenever I could not sleep I should lay quietly with my eyes closed and count sheep in my head so that is what I did and guess what? It worked! In no time at all I was asleep the last thing I knew I had counted up to 15 sheep and then I must have fallen sound asleep. What good advice my grandfather had given me.

Kathy cat comes to visit Sherbet Sheep

What a lovely surprise I had this morning. As I walked into my garden, there waiting for me was my very good friend Kathy cat. She had come all the way from another part of the country to help me in my garden. She looked beautiful, she had painted green leaves on her fur and was all smiley, ready and eager to help me with my garden tasks.  She had brought her own watering can and it was purple, one of my favourite colours. Kathy cat loves gardening, she can grow things really well and knows all the names of all the plants. She also works very hard and is very kind .  I am so lucky to have her as my friend and I am so grateful to have the help in my garden as it is a very big garden with lots of plants and vegetables that need caring for. Kathy is going to stay with me for a few  days to help me in my garden and also to spend time with me as we have  not seen each other for a long time and we have lots to talk about I am sure. I will cook her delicious healthy meals and make sure I ask Pearl for some of her special homemade bread with sunflower seeds in it as I know Kathy will enjoy that. I still have lots of oranges from my mystery gift giver so we can enjoy those together too.

Doodle paints some snowflakes

Hello everyone. This is Pearl again. I am afraid Sherbet is still not quite himself so I told him to rest all day. I am staying with him in his cottage until he is well enough to look after himself. This morning it has started to snow again. Very pretty snowfakes are floating down onto Sherbet's garden and Doodle has come here to try to paint the snow flakes. He has brought his paint and paintbrushes with him. I am thinking it is very difficult to paint snowflakes as they are constantly moving but Doodle says he can do it. Doodle told me that if you look very, very closely at snowflakes, you will see that every one is different and they are absolutely beautiful. The best way, he said, is to look at them under a microscope but I think you would have to be very quick before they melt away !