Whooopppeeeeeeee, we do like to be beside the seaside, oh we do.....

We're going to the seaside tomorrow.
We love the beach.
Charlie has got his bucket and spade ready to build the first sandcastle of the year, and I've got my swimming trucks all ready to go. Oooooooh I can feel the sand between my flippers now.
I wonder if Mandy will buy us an ice cream each? I hope so.
Oh we do like to be beside the seaside, oh we......
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Perth do a platypus mint!

Me and Steve have been surfing, yes on the interweb! I've been trying to find out what is going on back in Oz with all of my lovely platypus friends.
How lovely, there's going to be a new coin with a platypus on it! It's going to be minted in Perth.

I wonder whether it will be mint with dark chocolate or milk? What do you think?? I love both! I bet there isn't a coin with a bear on it! I'll have to dash and show Charlie, he'll be dead jealous.
To see the lovely new coin go to the link below:

http://tinyurl.com/85yaclh

Have fun
Laters
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Number one fans party

Me and Charlie have been really busy this weekend. It was my number one fans 4th birthday party. Lots of little friends came, we were all running around playing hide and seek, it was great fun. Then the most exciting thing happened, MINI MOUSE arrived, yes MINI MOUSE! Me and Charlie are big fans of Mini. Then the best thing, apart from Mini and the birthday cake, was the party bags, whoopppeeeeeeee! What a surprise, the boys had Harold on Safari in their bags and the girls had Harold and the Mermaid. Everyone was really excited. Me and Charlie had to put our paw prints onto all of them, phew there was so many that it was really tiring.
Big cheers to all our new fans!
See you soon
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Making cakes with Auntie C

Me and Charlie have been helping to make cakes with Auntie C. Well when I say helping it was more tasting! Spoon licking is a very important job. I like to think that we helped make a lovely cake for our number one fan. A fab 4th birthday cake with pink fairies and everything. I do think it would have looked better with a platypus and even a small bear, but maybe next time. Auntie C can do all sorts of fab cakes; platypuses, fairies, the night garden, handbags, iPads, you name it she can do it, did I mention she can do platypusses? Check out what she can do on her Facebook thingy 'Celebrate with Kate's cakes' http://tinyurl.com/6qhmufu.
I can hear another slice of scrummy cake calling
Laters
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Great Garnetts farmers market

What a great day me and Charlie have just had, we've been at Great Garnetts farmers market. It was fab there was loads of room to run around, stalls selling yummy sweeties and burgers. There were goats and piggies, pheweeeee! There was a nice lady selling soaps which Steve said was made from milk from the goats, not sure how that works but I think me and Charlie will be getting scrubbed with it in the bath tonight (we got a tiny bit dirty!). There was also a lovely stall selling the fab Harold and Charlie adventure stories (Steve and Mandy seemed to be pretty busy with that).
Off to be scrubbed -boo!
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World Book Day at St Luke's

Last week was very special as it contained World Book Day. To help celebrate this, Steve went along to visit all the children at St Luke's school in Duston. It sounds like he had a fantastic time and everyone had lots of fun. St Luke's have got great names for their classes such as Ladybirds and Bumblebees. How cool is that???
Some of the children worked on a character for the new Charlie books. I've only just started looking through these but there are lots of great ideas and lots of wonderful pictures of what the new character might look like. There are pictures of owls, pandas, rabbits, cats, a giraffe and even several bin weevils! Mandy especially likes the butterfly called Sparkle and I liked Sophie the koala as she comes from Australia like I do!
Some of the other children were very helpful with ideas of what Charlie might do on his first day at school. It looks like Charlie might have some surprises as he trips over his tie or falls in a muddy puddle! Everyone agreed, however, that he has a fun first day at school and makes lots of new friends.
In the afternoon, Steve visited some of the other classes and read my new book 'Harold Wins Gold'. This was the first time anyone had heard this story! I hope everyone liked it and all of Molly's fab pictures.
I must go now and continue looking through all the drawings and story boards.
Keep on reading everyone!
Harold xx

Leap year

A very strange thing happened last month. We had a February the 29th. I don't remember having a 29th of February before.
Mandy said it was because it's a leap year.
That sounds exhausting. I'm tired after leaping around for five minutes, I don't think I could leap around all year.
Mandy explained it means there is a extra day in the year. It's very special as it only happens every four years. Phew, I'm glad neither me or Charlie's birthdays are on the 29th, that would be a disaster. But for all you fans with birthdays on the 29th, you probably celebrate on the 28th when there isn't a 29th.
I hope you had a good extra day, me and Charlie did.
Laters
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