Sherbet has been trapped in Clover Cottage !

Oh my dearest loyal friends from nearby and far far away.   How I have missed you all.  You have probably been thinking that I have dropped off the face of the earth but in fact I have been inside Clover Cottage this whole time .    Let me tell you why.
 Well, I forgot to mention to you that I have had a big creeping  ivy plant crawling all over my cottage, and the last time I was in my garden, I looked at it and  I thought I must cut it down or tidy it up a bit. It is very beautiful and glows in many shades of red and green,  BUT  it seemed to be taking over my home like an alien from another planet and I was becoming a little bit afraid of it because every time I looked out of my kitchen window it had grown a little bit more.   Last week I tried to get out of my cottage to water my plants and guess what ??   I couldn't get out !  The ivy had grown all over my kitchen door,  all over my front door and all over my windows. Oh my goodness,  I was trapped inside and I could not get out to tend to my garden or to write my stories.  Oh dear, Oh dear what was I to do?   Luckily I have very well stocked kitchen cupboards so I had plenty to eat and drink until help came but I was very worried about all the little creatures in my garden.  Who would give the hedgehogs their milk, who would make sure the caterpillars had enough lettuce, who would make sure the baby blackbirds in the nest were being fed enough by their mother. Oh dear, Oh dear, I was so worried.
 I had to wait patiently for so many days trapped in my cottage and I was so very grateful when  this morning I heard Doodle calling from outside.  I called back and told him where to find my big garden axe.    A few minutes later I heard him chopping and chopping ,  cutting down that naughty ivy .   Oh what bliss, my kitchen door suddenly burst open and there was my dear friend Doodle standing there with a big smile on his face. I ran out into the fresh garden air and gave him a huge hug. He was covered in bits of chopped ivy so I invited him in to Clover Cottage to have a lovely hot bath with my favourite lavender perfumed bubble bath.  All is well now and I am free again .  I have learnt my lesson and will not let ivy take over my cottage again .
 I am very grateful and very blessed to have a wonderful friend like Doodle to rescue me .
 Love from Sherbetx

Sherbet looks into the birds nest

My dear friends from nearby and far far away.     Here I am again in my vegetable garden at Clover Cottage.   I must tell you, that as I was waking up from my dreams, very early this morning, I heard a magical sound coming through my bedroom window. It is a sound that I have been hoping to hear since  discovering a new birds nest in my oak tree.   Yes !  Hooray ! Hooray!   The sweet sound of chirping baby birds was coming into my ears  so I jumped out of bed and ran straight outside to my garden.   I quickly found my old wooden ladder,  climbed up my oak tree and tried to see into the nest. I stretched my Sherbet Sheep body as far as it could go and I just managed to peep into the nest
Oh how delightful!  There in the nest were 4 baby blackbirds with their beaks wide open waiting for their breakfast. I felt a little bit sorry for them as their mother was nowhere to be seen and I knew that however hungry they were they would  probably not like to share my breakfast of boiled egg and toast so I came down from the ladder and sat patiently to watch for the mother blackbird to come back. It only took 5 minutes before I saw her flutter to the nest carrying something wiggly in her beak. At last I could stop worrying . Love from Sherbetx

Sherbet is back at Clover Cottage

Ah, my dear, dear, loyal friends.  How lovely to see you all again.   I must say I have had a nice peaceful time at the seaside and I am now back at Clover Cottage.   You may think I am looking a little bit untidy,  but you see,  I am feeling so relaxed that I just feel like wearing my casual country clothes.  I am quite content to just sit here surrounded by daisies.  I must apologize for my strange, bent ear.  You see it was very windy yesterday and my ear was blown right down and so far it has not come up again.   I will try not to worry about it.   Pearl says that I still look very handsome even with odd ears. She tells me that even if I had no ears at all then it would not matter as it is my kind soul that matters most.  Pearl always says such wise things and I always listen to her because I can learn so many wonderful things from her.  Well, let me tell you what happened when I arrived back at Clover Cottage. First of all the naughty slugs had eaten all of my best lettuce in my vegetable garden so I will have to plant some more seeds. The good news is that I have noticed a new birds nest in my oak tree.  Oh how exciting !   I cannot wait to see if there are any baby birds in there.  I will listen very carefully early  tomorrow morning in the stillness, with my ears wide open ( that is if I can get my bent ear wide open!)  If I am very lucky I will be able to hear the tiny chirps of baby birds as they wait for their mother to bring their breakfast to them.  I will let you know what happens in my next story.
 Love from Sherbetx

Sherbet has escaped to find some peace

Oh my dear friends from nearby and far far away!  I am so sorry that I have not written my story for a little while. I must tell you that  I have a very good reason. You see, I have escaped to the seaside to find some peace. You may wonder why I had to find some peace . Well, let me tell you that  I could not stay at Clover Cottage because the frogs in my pond have been croaking so loudly all night long that I have not been able to sleep very well. Every morning I had woken up with tired eyes because of my naughty, noisy frogs so I decided to come here to this beach as it is a very, very quiet place indeed and there is not a frog in sight. All I can see are crabs and all they do all day is run  into holes in the sand. You will be glad to know that I am catching up on my sleep and I  am collecting shells to add to my nature corner back at Clover Cottage. Love from your dear and loyal  friend, Sherbet Sheep with plenty of sleep ! x                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; .

Oh dear, Sherbet has odd looking ears.

Oh dear , what has happened to my ear.  The last time I looked,  both of my ears were sticking straight up to the sky.  I am a little bit worried because I have never seen my ear like this in the whole of my life . Maybe it was because it was very windy today.  Maybe the wind has blown my ear down.  Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear , what shall I do?     I know!   I will stop worrying about it because worrying does not change anything,  instead I will sit here,  close my eyes and imagine that both of my ears are sticking up the same way and when I open my eyes again I am sure I will be back to normal.  Please wish me luck as I am sure I look very silly indeed with one ear up and one ear down!   Love from your odd looking friend Sherbet Sheepx

Sherbet has a new friend

What fun !
 I have found a new little friend who looks a little bit like me .
I think the only difference between us is that he has floppy downward facing ears and I  have upward facing ears.
 Oh how blessed I am to  to be sitting in these
 lovely purple flowers with my new friend.
 Love from Sherbetx

Sherbet is in lavender heaven

 Here I am at the garden centre today.  I just could not resist sitting right in the middle of this
wonderful lavender.   Oh what a heavenly perfume it has .   I just cannot stop sniffing it into my nose.
Ahh,  it is so relaxing,  the more I sniff it ,  the more I just want to fall  asleep right where I am .  The only problem is,  if I fall asleep in this garden centre,  someone may come along and try to buy me, thinking I am some kind of garden ornament.   The best thing I can do is to take some of this lavender  back to Clover Cottage and plant it there , then I will lay down in my very own garden where I feel safe and sniff it to my heart's content.   Love from Sherbetx

A naughty dog called Buddy

Ah, what a joy it is to be sitting here with these pinker than pink flowers. I only wish that I had a pink hat to match them, then my life would be complete !
 Now,  I must tell you that I have heard from a very dear friend of mine that while I was away from Clover Cottage today, a very naughty, young dog called Buddy ran into my garden.  He is a black labrador and there is nothing he likes better than splashing around in water and being as naughty as he can be.
This is what happened next.   Buddy jumped into my lily pond and started to pull all of my beautiful lilies out.  He ran all around my garden at full speed, making a terrible mess, leaving chewed up lilies everywhere,  in the bushes , in the vegetable patch, in the flowerbeds,  just everywhere !
At one point he swam right down to the bottom of the pond with just his tail sticking out of the water. He was trying to pull a lily out that was stuck under a rock .  Oh my goodness what a very naughty dog he is .  Oh dear,  poor pond.   Oh dear,  poor lilies. I do hope they grow again very soon .  I will miss them .   Love from Sherbetx