"Don't pull the plug out Harold!"!

"Don't pull the plug out Harold", I shouted. But it was too late! Me and Harold were playing down at the beach, when we found what looked like a giant plug. (You know like the ones that you get in the bath). As usual Harold was desperate to fiddle with it, but it looked a bit dangerous to me. The next thing I knew he had pulled it out! Just then the sea water started to disappear! But Harold hadn't noticed, his tummy had started to rumble and he had wandered off to find a cheese and pickle sandwich. Oh no! I tried to put the plug back but it didn't make any difference, the water was still disappearing. I sat down next the the plug and cried. No more days by the sea licking our ice lollies, while wiggling our toes/flippers in the water, booooooooo! Just then Mandy came to find me for lunch. I explained the whole sorry tale to her. She said I was a silly little bear, as she gave me a big hug, it had all been a huge coinkydink(coincidence for those that can say it). The tide just happened to be starting to go out at the same time as Harold pulled the plug, phew! So the water will be back again later. I best check - hopefully while I'm eating and ice lolly and wiggling my toes in the water! Best go before Harold realises I'm writing on his blog! Charlie Xx

Lynne Chapman workshop

Me and Charlie had a fab time at the Linton book festival last weekend. It was great we did lots of running around with all our new friends and Steve was doing lots of story telling - he was reading my lovely books, of course! You can find them at www.haroldtheplatypus.co.uk Anyway we went along to a workshop (we weren't very keen to start with, workshop sounds a bit like hard work and we don't like that! But it was really good fun!). The workshop or funshop (as we called it) was with a smashing lady called Lynne Chapman. She is brilliant at drawing, almost as good as Molly and Jess(well we are biased as Molly and Jess were kind enough to do the gorgeous drawings of us on our adventures). Me and Charlie are top drawers now, although Charlie doesn't seem to be able to get my beak quite right! Off to do some drawings, Lynne says practise makes perfect, as we think she has done alot of practise! Laters H X

Book festival

Not sure if I've mentioned this before, but Steve has been writing some stories about the cool adventures that me and Charlie have had. There are 5 stories now: Harold and the mermaid Harold saves Christmas Harold on safari Harold in space and Harold wins gold Well, the people organising the book festival thought that stories we're so good that they asked Steve to go and read the stories to the children at the festival. How exciting for the children to meet me and the person that wrote the lovely stories about me, all at the same time! It was great, we all had lots of fun. Mandy brought cheese and pickle sandwiches for lunch (our favourite, yum). She said I might have gotten a bit over-excited, all that running around with all my fans was tiring. Another great day. I' m off to bed. Laters H X

Chris Evans and Moira

Mandy was listening to the radio and Chris Evans came on. I like listening to him, he plays nice tunes in the morning. He was talking about his friend Moira doing the readings for a talking book. Now there's is a good idea, how great would it be to have the Harold and Charlie books read out so you could choose whether to listen to our super adventures or read the books. Moira if you're reading this, I'm waiting for your call! Ooooooh the phones ringing, wonder if it's Moira, got to go! H X