Sherbet is dreaming about food

Ah, how lovely it is to just flop down here in these beautiful leaves . I have been working all day in my garden and I am completely worn out . If you look closely at my eyes you will see that they look a little bit creepy like I have been abducted by Aliens again but I can assure you that I have not.  I am safe and sound in my very own garden here at Clover Cottage . The sun is shining on me , the birds are tweeting at me , the bees are buzzing around me , the snails are avoiding me and I can hear my hedgehogs rustling in the hedge behind me . In a little while I will get up and give the dear little creatures  a delicious saucer of milk, I mean the milk is delicious not the saucer !  Oh dear I must remember to write my English a little bit better, I do not want to confuse my readers , I would hate them to think that I am silly enough to describe a saucer as delicious. I know that sometimes my food is so delicious that I want to lick the plate but it is not the plate that is scrumptious , it is the scrummy saucy bits left on it that are too small and runny to put on my fork. Yummmm, I am just remembering Pearl's home made, crusty bread, it would be the perfect thing to wipe all of that scrummy yummyness up with . Ah I am really dreaming here because I am looking around me from my nest of leaves and there is not a plate of food in sight. If I close my eyes for a little while I may be able to conjure up a dream full of my favourite food . What a good idea!    Love from Sherbetx

It is so windy today in Sherbet's garden

Oh my goodness, it is so windy!
 The windows in Clover Cottage are rattling so hard and the green,yellow, brown, red, orange and yellow leaves are just flying all around my garden.  I know Mango will love it but I do not like to see my poor trees all bare with no leaves on.  I do worry about the birds because I don't know where they go to keep cosy in the cold weather. I will ask Pearl she is very wise and may know the answer.  I do hope the wind stops soon.  I must say that I am still feeling my lovely, loving hug that I had yesterday. I cannot wait until next year when I will get another big hug for HUG A SHEEP DAY !
  Love from a very wind blown Sherbet Sheepx

Mango helps to sweep the leaves

 I woke up this morning after a very windy night.  I knew it was windy because I woke up out of my fascinating dream to the sound of my bedroom window rattling.  As my cottage is little bit old it does things like rattle it's windows but I do not mind as it is very cosy living here in Clover Cottage.

 Anyway, when I opened my kitchen door after eating my scrumptious breakfast of toast made of some leftover delicious homemade bread that Pearl gave me,  I saw hundreds of leaves on my lawn.  My first thought was Mango!  I am saying this because  I know that Mango just loves jumping around in my piles of leaves.  I put on my boots and went to knock on his watering can house door and asked him if he would like to help me sweep up the leaves.  He of course said yes as he does like helping and he was especially delighted as he knew that his reward at the end of leaf sweeping would be to bury himself in the lovely crunchy rainbow coloured leaves.    Love from Sherbetx

Mango is a very helpful mouse but a little bit naughty

Early this morning, I heard a tiny knock on my door. It was Mango all eager and ready for work. I let him in to my cosy kitchen and I shared my delicious breakfast with him. I must say I have been eating so much of Pearl's scrumptious blackberry jam, that the jar is now more empty than full. After Mango had so very kindly washed up the breakfast dishes, we started work in the garden. It was a lovely, sunny day so I was not worried that Mango would catch cold. I spent all morning weeding and was so pleased to see the garden looking all neat and tidy again. Mango did a really wonderful job of gathering all of the leaves together. He was a little bit naughty though, as when I looked around, I saw him jumping up and down in his pile of leaves and nearly getting lost in them. Mango is becoming rather famous for getting himself lost in leaves but I did manage to pull him out before he disappeared completely!

Back to a quiet life

Well, here I am almost back to my normal quiet life at Clover Cottage. It was so lovely to see my garden full of my friends, old and new but I can also now enjoy the peace and quiet with all the little creatures in my garden. The sun has been shining quite warmly this morning so the snow is melting, maybe  tomorrow I can do lots of garden tasks. I am looking through my kitchen window and I see the weeds have started to grow again and there are lots of leaves to clear away as it has been quite windy too. I can see them popping through the melting snow right at this minute as I am talking to you. I will ask Mango to help me as he loves leaves even though he does sometimes get lost in them.

Sherbet sits in his garden and thinks and thinks and thinks

Well this morning I woke up feeling a bit tired so I am also feeling very lazy. I do not want to work in my garden today, I do not want to even tidy my cottage, in fact I don't want to do anything but sit and think. I will think and think and think and maybe a great thought will come to me. Who knows, while I am thinking, I may think of something that has never been thought of before, I may think of something that hasn't been invented yet, I may think of great ways to save the planet or I may just fall asleep!!  Anyway I am going to just sit quietly in my garden and feel the peace all around me. I will listen to the  birds singing and the wind blowing through the leaves on the trees and I will just relax and rest and tomorrow I will be as fresh as a daisy and get back to working in my
garden. Do not disturb. Love Sherbet x

A visit to Doodle's art studio

Today Pearl, Mango and I visited Doodle in his art studio. It was so exciting. He has so many interesting things to see there. He has tadpoles in a jar, painted stones, a book about frogs and a book about painting. The thing we loved best of all though was that he showed us how to paint a big pot. He said we should use our imagination and that there were no rules and we could paint anything we liked on it. Doodle painted big insects on his pot, I painted big spots on my pot, Pearl painted flowers on her pot and  Mango painted leaves on his pot. It was so much fun and we were all very proud of our lovely colourful pots . Doodle said we should all keep them in my garden and grow flowers in them.  We all thought that was a great idea. I am so proud to have a wonderful, creative friend like Doodle.

Sam the slippery slimy slug escapes

The slugs have settled nicely into their new box apart from one who I  have named Sam ( Doodle says I should call him slippery Sam!). He keeps escaping. I have just found him hiding among the autumn leaves in my wheelbarrow. He was not easy to find.






Mango Mouse offered to help me by climbing in and out of the lovely crunchy leaves until he found the naughty little slug. Mango was afraid to touch  Sam's slimy skin so I put my special gardening gloves on and plucked him out of the leaves. He was sent back home to his box just in time for his dinner. (Oh no not lettuce again!!).