Ooooh ten more sleeps til christmas

Hello there
Are you all getting excited yet?
We are SUPER EXCITED.
Me and Charlie helped Steve put the christmas tree up yesterday while Mandy made mince pies.
Mince pieces, or mice pies as Charlie calls them, are very confusing. We thought we would be having them with chips as a treat for tea, but we had them after tea with ice cream?? -yummy in my tummy.
Mandy said this morning that it was eleven more sleeps,until Christmas.
We checked this out on our advent calandars. Yep me and Charlie have got eleven chocolates each left.
Then we thought about it. No there aren't eleven more sleeps to Christmas there are only ten - NOBODY sleeps on Christmas eve: hee hee! We won't be able to sleep we'll be so excited......
Off to ask Mandy if we can have mince pies for breakfast....
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Firework night

Hello!
Me and Charlie have always loved firework night. The big bangs and lovely bright colours, coool!
The rockets remind me of the time I went into space in Harold in Space - super exciting.
But this year we felt a little bit different about our firework night.
Before we due to go to the firework display, someone set off a firework in the street.
Jessie, our dog, ran towards the front door and started to bark.
Another one went off and she ran to the back door and started to bark.
We asked Mandy why she was doing that and she said that Jessie didn't understand the fireworks.
Mandy also explained that there are a lot of pets that are very frightened by fireworks.
Me and Charlie hadn't thought about that.....
Later on we went to a really cool firework display in a field.
Me and Charlie checked to make sure that we were right away from all the houses.
"Phew" said Charlie, "these lovely fireworks won't be frightening any pets, we are miles away".
After the firework display we went home and played in the garden with sparklers. Jessie sat inside watching, wagging her tail.
When we came in we had a nice big mug of hot chocolate with marshmallows on the top - yum!
All we needed then was a cheese and pickle sandwich (my favourite).....
Laters
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Cheeky monkey

Hey there
Did you here about the monkey this week that took a selfie?
This reminded me of the cheeky monkeys that stole my camera when me and Charlie went on Safari.
They stole my camera and then ran off and climbed some trees so that we couldn't catch them. It took us ages to get the camera back and when we did there were lots of photos of naughty monkeys. They had been taking photos of each other. What a cheek, with my new birthday camera!
Off to check where my camera is now.....
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Poppies

Mandy has bought me and Charlie a poppy each. Mandy says they will last forever - coooool!
They are to remind us of all the people that died during the First World War. There were lots and lots and lots of them. There is going to be a poppy for each person planted outside the Tower of London. I hope we can go and see them so that me and Charlie can pick out our own poppies!
Off to decide where to plant my poppy when I get it.....
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Jessie has had a spa day.....

Mandy said that Jessie, our doggie, needed to go and see a dog groomer to get her coat all spruced up for the warmer weather.
Steve said that was just like Mandy going for spa treatments at Auntie Nicci's salon
Unfortunately Auntie Nicci doesn't do spa days for dogs, only people. So we had to find another lovely lady to paint Jessie's nails (tee, hee!)
Well Jessie has just come back from her spa day (dog grooming) and she looks lovely. She's been washed, dried and brushed and nails have been cut - not polished though :)
Me and Charlie will have to be very careful when we take her for a walk in a minute that we don't get her too dirty - uh oh!
Laters
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World book day....

Did you know that on world book day you're allowed to go to school dressed as one of your favourite characters from the book you like the best?
Well me and Charlie have been to school today dressed as our favourite characters
Can you guess who we went in as?
Here's a clue:- We didn't need any costumes
Yes you've got it we went in as ourselves!!! Harold and Charlie from the Harold and Charlie adventure books.
Cool eh?

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Skeleton.... Ooooooooh

We've just been watching something called the skeleton, and it's not even Halloween - tee hee!
I don't know why Lizzie Yarnold didn't have a team GB suit with a skeleton on it??
Go Lizzie go!
It looks great, just like super fast sledging - cooooool!
I think I'd be really good at skeleton I could use my tail and flippers to help me steer.....
Charlie isn't very keen (he's a bit of a scaredy cat, sssssh)
Well I can't wait for snow so that I can have a go!
Wonder if Mandy and Steve could be persuaded to take us to Sochi (that's in Russia you know)
Laters off to find our sledge. Wonder if it will work down the stairs.........
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Winter olympics

My cousin Kieran, lives in Massachoozzies.
They have been loads of snow over there in America.
 He says he's getting pretty good at building snowmen and throwing snow balls.
PANIC!!!
We haven't had any snow, the Winter Olympics are just around the corner and me and Charlie haven't been practicing.... Oh no, disaster!
I am the best in a snow ball fight! My flippers mean I can make really big snow balls, fast. I can't imagine that anyone would be better than me. I am bound to win the gold medal.
Now I know you all know that Charlie is brilliant at making sand castles (especially in long jump sand pits, hee, hee. Remember when I tricked him into doing this in Harold Wins Gold?) well he is just as good a snowmen.
Well actually snow platypuses and snow bears, which are much better!
We haven't seen the snow ball fight and snowman building competition advertised on the telly yet so we're not sure exactly when it's on.
We'll have to get Steve to check on the interweb. It will be great to go back to the Olimpets stadium again. We haven't been there since last Summer.....
I wonder where they are going to get all the snow from?
Anyway I need to go and practise throwing something so I can become the first platypus to win a medal in the Summer and Winter Olympics....
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New Years resolutions

On our car ride into school we heard that funny man, what's his name Charlie?? Oh yes that's right Chris Evans, talking about New Years Resolutions and about how most people have given them up already! 

Well I thought this would be a good time to make a resolution and then I will have beaten everyone else... Hee hee.....

When I asked Mandy for some ideas, she said that I should make a resolution to be good. 

She reminded me about how worried I was when me and Charlie went to see Santa, in case I wasn't on the Good List... Mandy said that it was very close but I must have just sneeked onto it. 

Where would the fun be in being good ALL year?

Then a brilliant idea hit me! 

My New Years Resolution is 

         'To not get caught being naughty!'

Brilliant eh? 

Mandy didn't think so but grown ups aren't always right you know.....

Off to pretend to be good.......

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Possibly my biggest fan?

Yesterday at West Wickhams' Christmas fair Steve met someone who could well be my biggest fan.
Emma Louise already had four of my books. She persuaded her dad to buy the last three, so she now has a full set!
Steve was about to tell what happens in my latest adventure Harold the Pirate but was told not to spoil it as she was looking forward to reading it herself!!!
I think Emma Louise might be a famous author herself when she grows up, as she has come up with lots of ideas of adventures for me.
What do you think about Harold the Time Travelling Platypus???
Got to go, just thought of some more ideas for my Christmas list.......
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Dino bear.......

Dino bear
Steve has been asked to write a new book about dinosaurs...... So me and Charlie have decided to find about them.
There are lots of different kinds and they all have funny names that can be a bit tricky to say. My favourite is Tyrannosaurus rex.
Steve is going to take us to dinosaur world so that we can all find out more about dinosaurs to help with the new book. Maybe when we go I will call myself H Rex and Charlie could be Dino Bear????
We're so excited, we'll both have to practise our big ROARs
I wonder what other cool things dinosaurs got up to.....
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Why do doggies wag their tail?

Why do doggies wag their tails?
I nearly got knocked over the other day by Jessie wagging her tail.
I asked Mandy why Jessie wags her tail so much (I think she must have the waggiest tail in the world) Mandy says they wag their tails when they are happy....
I'm not so sure. I don't wag my tail when I'm happy and poor Charlie hasn't even got a tail!
But I hope it is true because that would make Jessie one of the happiest dogs in the world :)
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Jessie's birthday....

Jessie's birthday
We've had  our doggie Jessie a year today!
We love her so much we can't remember what life was like before we had her.
Me and Charlie wanted to get a Colin the Caterpillar cake (we all have yummy Colin the Caterpillar cakes when it's our birthdays), but Mandy said chocolate can make doggies poorly...... So we are going to have secret Colin the Caterpillar cake for us, whoopee! and a cake made out of doggie biscuits for Jessie.

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Jessie, happy birthday to you. Hip, hip, hooray for Jessie!
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Country fair....

Today we all went to a country fair.

There were lots of things to do and loads of people there. I had hoped to meet some other platypuses but there were none there. 

There was a doggie competition though so I entered Jessie. 

We had to walk around the competition ring and do some tricks, like the ones we do at puppy training classes. 

We won two rosettes! 

Well when I say we I really mean me!

Jessie was so happy she give me a big wet lick on the face - yuck!

I said to the man judging the competition that next year they should have a competition for the best platypus at the show........

Layers

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David's playing bottom!

Did I mention in a previous blog that I now have an audio book?
Well just in case I didn't "I've got an audio book!"
Well the nice man, (David to his friends... He's a famous actor you know!) recorded two of my adventures onto a lovely shiny disc that Mandy can play in the car when we are on a long journey.
Well, Mandy and Steve were talking about an article written about my actor friend, it said "David Gurney's Bottom was excellent".
Well how rude.....
Mandy explained Bottom was the name of the character David was playing.
Charlie thought he must have been playing the back end of a pantomime horse!
Mandy explained that Bottom was the name of the character David was playing in a Midsummer nights dream a Shakespeare play. I wonder whether there are any platypuses in any of his plays???
He's now off to play Sherlock Holmes at the Edinburgh festival
It's a mystery where he gets the time...
Off to find out if Hamlet was a platypus...
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Are we getting a gold postbox?

Me and Charlie have been watching the Anniversary Games today at the Olympic park.

Charlie said that he wondered, now that Jessie had won two rosettes in the doggie competition, whether we would be getting a gold postbox in the village (like the gold medal winners did at the Olimpets).

Silly Charlie! 

That reminds me they seem to have forgotten to paint our postbox gold after I won my medal for swimming super fast last year at World Sports Day.....

Off to find some gold paint...

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The doggie with the waggiest tail......

Today we all went to a country fair.
There were lots of things to do and loads of people there. I had hoped to meet some other platypuses but there were none there.
There was a doggie competition though so I entered Jessie.
We had to walk around the competition ring and do some tricks, like the ones we do at puppy training classes.
We won two rosettes!
Well when I say we I really mean me!
Jessie was so happy she give me a big wet lick on the face - yuck!
I said to the man judging the competition that next year they should have a competition for the best platypus at the show........
Layers
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My trip to Oakland's school

Me and Steve were invited to Oakland's school by my great friend Theo.
We had a great day visiting all the classes and reading some of my adventures to the children. Both me and Steve were exhausted by the end of a great day!
I'm sure everyone will enjoy reading my adventures over the summer holidays
I hope all my new friends at Oakland's have great fun in the last couple of days at school
See you all again soon. I've got to go now and hurry Steve along with writing my new adventure Harold the Pirate - I'm really looking forward to reading that one!
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My visit to Hatton Park school.....

Last week me and Steve had a very exciting trip to visit the boys and girls in Dragonfly class.
They've been eagerly awaiting the new book, Harold the Pirate, but Steve hasn't finished it yet. So we thought we'd pop along to the school to read them some of my adventure stories.
Imagine my surprise when I realised Dragonfly class had adopted my cousin who is also called Harold! He also has a best friend that is a teddy bear called Charlie (I think he is copying me!).
I don't see many platypuses so it was great to see another one, especially one called Harold!
I hope Dragonfly class will look after him and Charlie, you never know me and Steve might come back again to check!
The boys and girls were very excited as its nearly the start of their summer holidays. I hope they will be reading lots of books (especially ones about me) over the summer and who knows they may even write a new adventure story about me!
Happy holidays to all my new friends at Hatton Park school and good luck to Miss Thorne at her new school.
See you soon
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I'm being really kind to Steve!!

It was my birthday in the week but I have agreed with Mandy that I will wait until its Steve's birthday for my party so that we can share.
Secretly I'm hoping that all Steve's friends will buy me a present as well as my own - what a fab way to double up on presents!! Mandy has already promised me another present for delaying my party.....
I am hoping that the weather will be good so that we can have a super day on the beach, with lots of swimming and yummy ice creams, not to mention opening presents, lots and lots of presents; and oh I forgot birthday cake. I love birthday cake..... Mmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Laters
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