Sophie sent me this notebook with little red hearts on the cover, so I might as well use it. I wouldn’t be seen dead writing in it at school! I’ll use the maggot-shaped notepad Wes and Fez gave me for more public use. Had a great day, starting with cream and brown sugar on my porridge for breakfast, and the coolest present ever from Mum and Dad — six duck eggs! They’re sitting in a cardboard box, with an electric blanket to keep them at just the right temperature until they hatch. They should be ready in two weeks at the most. I can’t wait!!!! After school, Mum took me, the twin tornadoes Wes and Fez and my friends Matilda Jane Sweeney and Banjo Davies over to Dubbo to the circus. It was amazing — trapeze artists, acrobats, jugglers, lion tamers, knife throwers and the funniest clowns I have ever seen. I haven’t laughed so hard since Wes knocked himself unconscious trying to break the Guinness World Record for the largest number of wheelbarrows, forty-four gallon drums and dead sheep to be jumped by a pig and chariot.
