Tuesday 1 December 2020

Horses For Courses

Rosie is loves horses. She is slowly building up a collection of Schleich models,giving them her own quite idiosyncratic names; Whitey, Sparklehooves, Clumsy etc [she resisted Liz's suggestion to called Clumsy's mother 'Mumsy'] She recently lined them all up in her bedroom, and asked Liz to take a photo and send it to Grandma. 

Over the Summer at Grandma's nursery, she loved going for walks [gallops] wearing her strap-on hobby horse. And of course, discovering that Grandma had a Sylvanian stable, which once belonged to Mummy Liz proved unbelievably wonderful. We turned them all into Unicorns on one special day. She is as horse-mad as her Mum was at that age...

As I was thinking about the Christmas Decorations, I remembered we'd had a Christmas Rocking Horse back in the 80's.
It had come from the NT shop at Ightham Mote, a favourite place to visit when we lived in Kent. It was a printed sheet which had to be cut out and sewn up.

But the stuffing had gone strange and his legs were limp. He kept falling over - so about 10 years I just left him in the decorations box, and said "I'll fix him for next year" but never did. I got as far as removing the rockers

Finally last Thursday I got the job done,. I unpicked his hooves, pulled out the stuffing, and then restuffed, adding fresh fibres.

When Rosie saw him, in our WhatsApp chat, she was so excited. I am glad I got round to fixing him at last.I suspect he will be travelling to Norfolk soon so that Rosie can play with him there.















2 comments:

  1. Love the smile on Rosie's face, in the picture with all her horses lined up!

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  2. He looks so much better now, 'Repair shop' to the rescue!

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