Dottie curled up on her soft blanket beside the Dressing up Chest and she listened to the whirring of Mum’s sewing machine. Dottie and Mum had walked in the woods that day and Dottie remembered the time Wilf dressed up as Robin Hood and asked Pip to be Maid Marion. Pip wasn’t too keen on this idea – she preferred to be the leader in all their games. But she gave in and told Dottie that she would have to be the Sheriff of Nottingham. Dottie didn’t know what a sheriff was and would have preferred to be one of the merry men she had heard them talk about.
The three of them ran about in the woods. Wilf pretended to shoot things with a bow and arrow and Pip skipped through the long grass and looked up the names of the wild flowers in her nature book.
Dottie wasn’t convinced that the Sheriff of Nottingham was the role for her and she decided to investigate what Mum had put in their picnic. Of course once Dottie smelled cheese sandwiches that was it! She just had to tuck in! “Oh Dottie” said Pip “with food constantly on your mind the part for you is definitely Friar Tuck!”
Dreaming about the sandwiches made her tummy rumble and Dottie began to wake up. She heard Mum call “Dinner time”. Dottie yawned and stretched and thought to herself “I told them I should have been one of the Merry Men all along!”
I wonder what Dottie will dream about next time.
I wonder what Dottie will dream about next time.
