tides - what's going on there?

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside, oh I do like to beside the sea....
Me and Charlie have had a few days down at the beach, we've got a beach hut you know!
Well something happened that was confusing and a little bit annoying!
On Saturday morning I went down to the beach for a morning swim, whistling all the way with my towel round my neck, I was a happy as a platypus can be. I had a lovely swim in the bay. Said hello to my friend Sammy the seal. Great, what a way to start the day!
Well after my afternoon icecream I thought I might go for a swim before tea (cheese and pickle sandwiches of course, yum!) I went down to the same spot where I had left my towel in the morning but there was no sea!
Where had the sea gone!! Me and Charlie started to investigate.
Charlie said "Well one of the naughty crabs must have pulled the plug out, and all the water has drained away just like it does in the bath".
"No that's not right", said Steve, "it will be back later, the tide has just gone out"
I thought about this for a while. "Gone out, gone where? I know, it's the sea sloshing about isn't it? Like when me and Charlie are playing in the bath and we make the water slosh up to one end of the bath and then back to the other".
"So that's how the bathroom floor gets soaking wet, is it?" Asked Mandy
"So does that mean that it's sloshing up at the other side?"I wonder where the other side is?? I don't know where that is but it must be far away and they have got my lovely swimming water, which isn't very friendly.
Emergency over, we went back later and it was back again, phew! I'll have to find out where it goes so if I want a swim and the water is low where I am, I can dash over to where the water is high and go swimming there.
Got it sussed out now, you can't keep us platypusses down for long (still not sure whether it is playpusses or platypi)
See ya later alligators
Harold
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David Slater and the cheeky monkey ...

Steve was looking on the inter web today and saw a story about A man called David Slater from the guardian (not sure why the fact that he is a parent was relevant, or does guardian just mean old person? - not sure.
Any way this chap had an adventure in the forest which reminded me of when me and Charlie were on safari (see Harold on safari - www.haroldtheplatypus.co.uk). The camera I got for my birthday got stolen by some very cheeky monkies who took pictures of each other before running away -with my camera! It took ages to find them and we did have a few adventures on the way.
Any way I'll have to show this (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/jul/05/macaues-indonesia-wildlife) to Mandy as she said that sort of thing could only happen to me because I was being so naughty -as usual.Well all I can say is there must be lots of cheeky monkies out there.

See u soon
Harold :P

The last shuttle launch

As those of you that keep up with my adventures will know I've been on the space shuttle - Harold in Space -www.haroldtheplatypus.co.uk (if you are not familiar you best get hold of the book pretty quickly before I spoil the whole story for you - I don't like it when Charlie tells me the ending of stories before I've had a chance to read to the end;just because he's a smarty pants and can read faster than me!)
Anyway me and Charlie heard on the telly last night that the shuttle has taken off for the last time. I guess that means I'll be the first and the last platypus in space! Charlie is more than a bit miffed as he has been listening to me telling everyone how great it was to be in the shuttle and Steve has kept saying that maybe if Charlie is very lucky there might be another chance. Oh well, I guess we will just have to find another exciting adventure that we can do together.
Off to think up something really cool that me and Charlie can do, to take his mind off the shuttle!
Harold

Getting Christmas twice!

Mandy has been in China. Me and Charlie wanted to call her with our new phone but Steve said "no - it will be the middle of the night there, she'll be in bed". Now we know Mandy likes to have a nap now and again but it was 4 o'clock in the afternoon! We asked Steve to explain because it just didn't seem right. How could it be the middle of the night at 4 o'clock?
Steve explained about the time changes in other countries - it still sounds weird and a bit complicated for me. I just started getting the hang of it when I realised that's how it works on Christmas eve, otherwise there wouldn't have been enough time for me and Charlie to deliver all of the presents the year when Santa ate too many lovely mince pies and we saved Christmas!
Brainwave!
If me and Charlie went to Australia (that's where I'm from you know) on Christmas eve we could have Christmas there first, then we could dash back to Cambridge and have Christmas again - or more importantly presents all over again. How cool is that?
I'll have to run this by Mandy but I've got a good feeling in my beak!
Good night platy lovers
H
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