Guess where we have been?

Yes! A 'conkering.'

We are very lucky as we have our very own Horse Chestnut Tree.
Throw them down and I'll try to catch and put them in the wagon.

Help! I think I'm stuck!

Look, we must have collected at least four wagon loads!

Conkers are protected by these hard shells until they are ripe, then they split into three parts to let the seed out just as this one is about to do.

The shells are covered in sharp spikes to stop animals from eating them whilst they are ripening.

Ouch!

See, these shells have now split because the conkers are ripe.

Look! I'm lying in a bed of beautiful shiny conkers! Oooh, just lov-e-ly!

Sisters.

We are family.

Almost identical eye painting and probably my favourite of all the eye styles.

Off Sasha Brood topic.My unusual birthday present from my daughter.

As you have seen from my Sasha Doll collection I tend to prefer to go for the different, unusual, unique and OOAK dolls and outfits and this vein continues into my life as well SO you can imagine how delighted I was with my daughter's last birthday present to me.
She had a Sussex Polo Club Ground named after me.
Here are directions as to how to get to the Polo Club and showing my name on one of their grounds.
I'm a delighted and very proud mother.

Photo of my daughter (second in on the left in the orange hat) just before starting her match playing in The Wild Things Polo Team on MY ground!

My daughter, Chon, in action on one of her Polo ponies, Naranja.

Ross playing at being Jack and the Beanstalk.

Each year I plant some Runner Beans in my containers as I like to pick and eat them when they are small and tender, rather than buy them from the shops when they are larger and tough and sometimes stringy.


I was about to cut down the bean stalks now that the Runner Bean season is at an end when Ross asked if he could have a go at climbing it like Jack did in the story of Jack and the Bean Stalk.

Am I half way up yet? It's quite hard going with all these stems and leaves getting in the way.

How high up am I? Am I nearly at the top yet?

The Sasha Babies visit a local childrens playground.

We here in the UK are enjoying a truly lovely start to the Autumn so I decided to take all twenty-one of my Sasha babies (one is unfortunately away having his hair tamed) to the local park and childrens playground.
All in together now!

Don't lean over the sides or you'll fall off!

Are you ready for me to start you off? Now, no swinging too high.

Are you holding onto each other tightly?

Four on the upward climb to the slide.



You'll not squeeze through that small gap. You'll get stuck.

You won't get through there. Come on down.


Alberto, don't push them round too fast. Anis, you can't ride your tike on there when it's going round.

Mind you don't fall!

Just be careful! Now don't climb any higher!

Feeling a little lost and bewildered.

Much more confident now!

A surprise present for us arrived the other day.

These unusual and unique three minature photograph albums were made especially for us by Rosie Shortell and Sarah Price. They are attractively bound in a famous William Morris print, Strawberryfields, and come with a matching storage box. Aren't they just wonderful?

When we opened them we couldn't believe our eyes as they are filled with tiny replica prints of our mummy's Blogspot photos of us.



Aunties Rosie and Sarah, we are all so thrilled with these and can't stop looking through them. A million/trillion Sasha thanks.

A wild flower meadow visit.

I took a few of my girls, who haven't got long flowing locks that might catch the wind and blow across their faces just as I'm clicking the camera button, to a wild flower meadow.












Hooray for our wild flowers!