Great, I was going to be stuck with him after all. Susie didn’t look very happy either. ‘But who will tuck Harriet in at night and read her a story?’ she asked, her blue eyes filling with tears and her bottom lip starting to wobble. EE threw me a br...
First thing this morning, I went to see Mr Bearman and even though I felt like the biggest grass in the history of grasses (and I don’t mean the wavy, green stuff), I told him everything. He listened without saying much, then thanked me for telling him and asked me to leav...
After Nico had walked me home from the gig and we’d stopped under practically every tree along my road to check we hadn’t forgotten how to snog, I’d almost floated through Sunday. Even Mary’s blatantly disapproving glowers weren’t enough to bring me down. It served her right if she’d seen more th...
Armed with a clipboard, I spent each sunrise sprinting laps around the garden and doing bunny-kick press-ups. Lunch was a carrot and cabbage smoothie served by Susie’s mum and snacks were off the menu, in spite of Lily’s best efforts to feed me Smudge’s biscuits. At sunset, I practised my rabbit ...
Sitting in the super-comfortable deluxe seats in the cinema for free is one, although it’s no fun when the world’s most enormous man unknowingly sits on you – oh, how we laughed about that one. Wandering about without a coat in the rain without fear of a soaking is another perk. On that wet after...
We were up at dawn every day, sprinting around the Animalympic village and jumping over everything in our path. The film crew seemed exhausted just watching us, and if we watched one more recording of another famous triple-jumper hopping, skipping and landing in the sand, I thought my head might ...