ZACK'S BACK

With Toby!

"Hello " Says Toby " Welcome to the Sasha Village, I'm Toby and this is my brother Zack "
 The new girl smiles " Nice to meet you Toby, Zack my names Mary "

"MARY! " gasps Zack
Toby gives Zack a look as if to say whats up with you?
" Hi Mary , my brother Zack says you have a really interest.. I mean nice bag that looks like a piece of carpet "
" Yes I do, it's over by my jacket "

Turning away Toby and Zack go over to look closely at the 'bag' , Zack had told Toby about how the girl.. Mary had pulled large objects from it! Toby just knew Zack as trying to pull his leg!

" There it is " whispers Zack pointing with a shaking finger at the bag.
" It's just a bag " says Toby not impressed at all " Mary seems quite dressy for one of our sisters "
" Never mind that " whispers Zack.. " That bag is magic! "

Toby stares harder at the bag, he wonders if it would be rude to ask if he could look inside ! Then he decides best not to in case she tells Mum who would be upset that he'd asked,  especially after the last time!  When he didn't ask and pulled Mr Grey the vicar's wig out of his case and Mrs grey fainted thinking it was a rat!

Mary looks between the boys shoulders trying to see why they are so interested in her bag?
Very odd behavour!

Finally the boys turn round to speak to Mary, Toby asks a few questions about her bag, had she had it long? Oh it was a family heirloom , where did she find it? Oh her Auntie P gave it to her when she was born and it was just like the one her Auntie P had but smaller!
Did it hold much? Oh Just a few bits and bobs...

 Was it Heavy ? No light as a feather !

Toby and Zack look back at the bag.. Toby so wants to ask to look inside! But he can bide his time, surely she'll not be with it all the time!

" Oh "says Mary " I just remembered something I need from my bag "

Zack pulls Toby to the other side of the room , Whispering he rushes to get the words out " She wearing a different dress! "
" What? "
" A different dress, she was wearing a browny beige ish shiny thing and now she's wearing flowers!"
Toby give Zack a searching look  "  Have you been drinking Dad's cider ? "
"NO" says Zack shocked , Toby looks like he does not believe him

Mary's looking at her bag trying to remember which section she put the gift in!
"Look! " says Zack " Look her dress is on the wooden thing! "
Now Toby's getting really worried, he does not like how odd Zack sounds, maybe he's got a fever!

" Ah! There it is " smiles Mary
Toby says softly to Zack " You are sure she pulled that big crib out that bag? "
"Yes!" trembles Zack looking a little sick

Toby turns towards the door " Come on Zack , let's go find Mum and get a nice cool drink and you can tell her about the imaginary things that come out of tiny bags!"
" I did not imagine it  ! I saw It... I think.... " Zack looks pale " I think I did ? I don't feel very well "
"Come on " says Toby moving quicker he does not want Zack being sick or he'll throw up!
Meanwhile Mary reaches into her bag " I so hope they'll like it "

A little tugging and puffing Mary pulls out a sweet little wooden rocking horse !

" It's for the Village bears, do you think they'll like it? " she turns her head to find she's all alone! Oh she wonders where the boys went .

Goodness , when is someone going to stay around long enough to show her a bed and introduce her to her new family?

She's never known such strange goings on!



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SUNDAY CATCH UP.

Well what a weekend , sunshine and showers and our lovely Queens 90th birthday, oh and Sharon's too... well not her 90th unless she's looking pretty good for that age!!

While I am typing this the light's on, even though it's only 10 to 7 in the evening, because heavy dark grey thunder clouds are rumbling their way across the sky outside the window. the one good thing is at least the rain will water the garden and save us a job!

I had hoped to do the next installment of the carpet bag arrival but this weekend turned out to be a gardening one, despite me wanting to have a massive sort out of my clothing and also to sort out some dolls and their things to sell on!

It is supposed to be the year of the house here and it will be , it's just taking a little time to get everything together but we did make a start on Friday and one of the next steps is me clearing out a lot of doll stuff, so that the bathroom can be moved into the room it's all stored in. But it's so hard deciding what to move on! Sometimes I think put everything up for sale and what does not sell I keep! But then I know all my most beautiful dolls and clothes will vanish or one of my main characters could go, so that's not a good idea!

But I do need to find that space, so some things will need to be moved on!

Lots happening at work at the moment and I am having to do quite a lot of training to enable me  to work in the way my company now requires plus of course we are short of staff ! and the holidays are coming up!

But I'm starting to get into one of those moods where things have to start happening, we've lived here 11 years now and after the first burst of wall knocking down, chimneys removed, room decorated, doors change etc etc it all came to a slow meander but now the need for change is once again upon me, so bathroom's need moving and doors replaced and wall knocked down etc etc, does anyone else get into these moods when things just have to be given a new least of life?

Of course the garden being a living thing always needs attention , even if you try to ignore it, well I do but Paul cannot, but it is a place you can change much more easily with a bit of hard work and a plan, so this weekend after being inspired from our trip to Kew gardens a few weeks back, late Saturday afternoon we tackled our Alpine/ Rockery.

This is Kew's.

This was ours on Saturday morning

and this is ours now on Sunday early evening. You can see how we did it on the garden blog at the side bar. It still needs finishing, so yet another day at least next weekend but I will have started on the clear out indoors in the evening and I will post the next installment of The Carpet Bag on Tuesday providing the weathers bright enough for me to take the photos when I get in from work.

Have a lovely week and remember to make time to enjoy your dolls.



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