A Day with Grandma Tailbury

The crafting challenge for the past couple of weeks on the sylvanian forum was about grandparents. Unfortunately, I am rather short of grandparents in my collection. One of these lone grandparents is Mrs Tailbury, from the 'family life at home' series. I also own her grandchildren, Tinker and Bouncer. So here we go with the story:

Tinker and Bouncer Tailbury are very good little children. They love to play quietly in their nursery at home, but sometimes they go and stay at Grandma's house.
Tinker and Bouncer like their Grandma's house, especially her living room, where they spend most of their time.

Mrs Tailbury does alot of knitting, so there is always balls of wool for her grandchildren to play with.

"What are you knitting, Grandma?"
"I'm making you a lovely warm scarf so you can be nice and warm in winter."

Sometimes the babies can be a little too inquisitive. Grandma needs to be careful that she doesn't leave any needles or scissors lying around.

Tinker and Bouncer like looking through her bookcase. There are alot of boring books in there: Vintage Fabrics, Cottage Gardens, Cooking at Home and other subjects that don't entertain young children.

But there are some interesting books that the babies like to look at. They can't read just yet, but they love to look at the pictures.

Sometimes, if they are lucky, Grandma will read them story. Or she will tell them stories about her own life. It's funny to think of Grandma as a little girl. The babies can't imagine her being anything but very old.
There's a big thick woolen rug on the floor in front of Grandma's rocking chair, and it provides a comfortable place to sit while Grandma warbles.

"What's this photo, Grandma?" Tinker asked.
"Aaah, that's a photo of me when I was 14 on my pony Merrylegs. The photo was taken at a gymkhana. We were quite the team, my pony and I. I won many ribbons on her." Grandma looked wistful.

"And look here on the bookcase, babies. This is a photo of your father when he was a teenager."

Another favourite part about Grandma's house is her delicious cookies. Yummy!

Once it's bedtime, Grandma takes Tinker and Bouncer by the hands and takes them to there little bedroom along the hall.

Both Tinker and Bouncer adore the room. They love its ducky wallpaper and the soft white carpet. They don't even have carpet in their nursery at home! (You see, Tinker and Bouncer are Mrs Tailbury's only grandchildren, and the truth is that she rather spoils them! When they were born she had the old spare room renovated in anticipation of them coming to stay!)
She hangs up their clothes and helps them into their pajamas. Unfortunately, Bouncer has decided he would rather wear just a nappy!
"Bouncer Tailbury, get back here right this instant!"

 Tinker has a soft night-gown that Grandma made herself, and Bouncer's pajamas look similar to dungarees.
The children have picked out the teddies they want to sleep with tonight, or at least Tinker has. Sorry Bouncer, your pull ducky would be a bit uncomfortable to sleep with!

"Read us a story!" Tinker asked as she put them in their cots and lifted up the side barricade.

"Alright," she dug around in the drawers to find a book, and began to read. "How about one of the 'Tales of Sylvania' ?"

So they lay in their cosy beds and Grandma read about the tales of old. She read about kings and queens, gallant knights and fair maidens. At last as the particular story she was reading from came to an end, she heard the sound of soft snoring coming from Bouncer's bed.

"Good night, my sweet ones," she whispered as she gazed at them, snuggled up beneath the blankies.

 "Sweet dreams, I love you..." she said, forever grateful for her precious grandchildren. Mrs Tailbury switched off the nursery light and slipped out the door, leaving the babies to sleep in peace...