Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

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Quite what came over me, I’ll never know… but it seemed like a good idea. I was wrapping my granddaughter’s birthday presents when it occurred to me… they were all all the princessy things which she loves, to play dressing-up. It fuels a child’s imagination, and, when I go round to see her, I invariably end up wielding a wand, wearing a crown or a witch’s hat, drinking tea from empty cups or with hair like a rainbow Rapunzel. Why not, thought I, go round in ‘princess mode’ instead and give her a surprise?

I rummaged through my own ‘dressing up’ gear, combining the workshop wardrobe department with some imagination of my own and, five minutes later, was robed and regalia’ed up to the eyeballs. It was, if I say so myself, a fair approximation of Hollie’s dress-up-princess… apart from several decades of age-difference.

The dog, her curiosity…