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The trick on Arabella worked spectacularly well!  She followed Theo round to our pile of leaves, cooing at him all the time and then we burst out – with ear-splitting screeches.  She was so scared she fell over backwards and got her bottom wedged in the washing basket.  She scuttled about the garden like a tortoise until her mum freed her.

We’ve had a great half term.  We went to an activity swim at the leisure centre on Tuesday with lots of floats and inflatables.  But mostly we’ve been getting ready for Halloween on Sunday.  And there’s lots to plan.  I’m having a Halloween party and everyone has to dress up in a scary way.  Ben’s coming of course and some other friends from our class – or should I say, fiends from our class.

The gargoylz have been helping and we’ve promised them their own party when everyone else has gone home.  We’ve been making paper ghosts and shiny skeletons to decorate my bedroom.  I left a skeleton on Jessica’s pillow and waited for her screams.  But Mum found it first.  She screamed really loudly so the trick worked in a way.  Bart’s going to burp up lots of spiders for us so my bedroom will be Scary! Scary!! Scary!!!  That will keep Jessica out.

Bart was wondering if anyone has some Halloween jokes for him.  Ben has one.

Q.  Why didn’t the skeleton go to the party?

A.  Because he had no body to go with!

Bart likes that one and so does Rufus!

Abel’s joke is -

Q. Why do witches wear name badges?

A. So you can tell which witch is which! 

Don’t forget to post your Halloween jokes too.

Right, we’re off to the kitchen to practise making witch’s guts and eyeballs. We’re going to use spaghetti and lots of gungy tomato sauce that looks like blood, with mozzarella cheese balls on top. Yummy and yucky!


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The leaf-volcano trick!

Posted by Ben

My world record is safe.  Max could only find two satsumas and a pear and when he added a dried raisin he found behind the fridge, the whole thing collapsed.

The gargoylz played a trick on us yesterday!  After school, we dashed round to the churchyard to see them because we wanted to tell them that half term started today and we’d have a whole week off school to play with them.  And most importantly, we needed to start making plans for Halloween.

But the gargoylz were nowhere to be seen.  The church roof was empty.  We walked up and down but all we could see were piles of leaves that had been swept up.  We even knocked on all the tree trunks to see if they were really Abel in disguise.  It was beginning to get dark and we needed to get home.

Then suddenly there was a roar and every pile of leaves erupted like mini volcanoes.  It was all the gargoylz!  Max and I jumped and yelled in fright.  It was a cool trick. 

And we decided to try it on Arabella tonight because she had been really bossy at lunchtime today and stopped us having third helpings of chocolate sponge. She’s the bossiest monitor in the history of bossiest monitors.  She had a humungous moan at us and all we’d done was ask for I’d given Mrs Simmer my best smile and as usual it had worked.  She’d got two huge slices of cake ready on her ladle and hovering over our plates when my bossy older sister ruined it for us by telling all the dinner ladies we were greedy and didn’t deserve it.

So we went straight home from the churchyard and made a huge pile of leaves in my garden.  We’re going to hide in it the moment I’ve finished this blog.  Arabella is watching TV in the living room so Theo is going to change into a cute kitten and appear at the window. Then he’s going to lure Arabella over to our trap.  She’s going to be so scared!


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Ben got into trouble for making a mess of Arabella’s pants drawer.  He didn’t realise that the sticks were wet and they left green slime everywhere.  He did manage to whisper to Arabella that the slime was ghostly ectoplasm and she went green as well!

Anyway, Ben and I had such a cool time at ‘Be a Chimp’ that we made a course for the rest of the gargoylz in my garden.  We wanted to surprise them but we had to ask Toby for help as we needed to tie a rope to the chimney and we can’t fly!

At two o’clock our first customers, Barney, Eli, Toby and Azzan arrived clutching the homemade tickets we’d printed off Ben’s computer.  (Of course they were free tickets.)  And off they went.

Stage One – climb up a step ladder by the shed, then scamper across the shed roof to launch themselves over to the apple tree.

Stage Two – balance along the branches before swinging down to the washing line.

Stage Three – travel along the washing line in the peg basket and jump out at the end on to Jessica’s little trampoline.  (She didn’t know I’d borrowed it.)

Stage Four – climb up the rose trellis and on to the roof. Zip down the zip wire that Toby had fixed from the chimney to the fence and land on a pile of cushions.

It went very well except that Barney got so excited he made three smells and Azzan singed Mum’s favourite bush.  We had to pretend there had been a freak bolt of lightning.  Then our next customers arrived – Ira, Abel, Theo and Zack.  And then Bart, Neb, Rufus and Jelly.  Unfortunately Rufus forgot to let go off the zip wire and crashed through the fence.  We all hid just in time as Dad came running out when he heard the noise.  He still can’t understand how a rope got tied to the chimney and who on earth made a gargoyle-shaped hole in his fence.  Ben and I said it couldn’t be us as that would be impossible and Dad had to agree, though he kept giving me funny looks all evening.

Tomorrow I’m going to try and beat the world fruit tower record. It should be easy. Ben’s the record holder at the moment and he’s only managed to balance three apples and a banana. Watch this space.


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‘Be a Chimp’ was the most awesome place in the history of most awesome places.  It was a mega big course up in the trees, with rope ladders and Tarzan swings and best of all, great long zip wires!

And the great thing was Abel and Jelly came too.  The bad thing was so did Arabella! – Luckily Jessica’s too small.  I don’t know why she bothered. She did nothing but shriek and hold everyone else up when she got scared.  If that wasn’t bad enough she tried to tell us how to do it.  The helper had to hoist her up the Tarzan net because she couldn’t climb it.  Max and I got ahead of her but then my dad said we had to wait until she caught up!  And then when she did she was really bossy.  So we made a plan.  We told Arabella that there were pterodactyls in the trees.  Of course she didn’t believe us.

When she was going across the wobbly bridge Jelly popped up in front of her.  That should have been enough to scare her but she just said that Jelly was a cheap plastic model!  He was very offended.

So then we told her that the trees were haunted.  She stuck her tongue out at us.  But she doesn’t know about Abel.  He turned into a tree and when she climbed up him, he growled, ‘Watch out!  My bite’s worse than my bark!’

Arabella screeched, scrambled along the stirrups and down the next zip wire in record time.  After that, she insisted on sticking close to Dad.  Max and I were free.

Tonight I’m going to put some twigs in her pants drawer so she’ll think the ghostly tree has come home with us.


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For some reason, Ben got into trouble for the fake poo! He swears no one saw him put it there.

Did you know there’s a contest called the World Conker Championship that takes place in October every year?  How cool is that!  Last Saturday we decided to hold our own competition with the gargoylz as there are lots of horse chestnut trees in the churchyard – and that’s where conkers come from.  It was a bit tricky trying to explain to the gargoylz that you have to put your conker on a string and whack someone else’s with it until one of them cracks. They had other ideas. We made a big pile of conkers first, but Toby and Azzan ran off with some of them and rolled them all along the church gutters and down the drainpipes. That made so much noise that the demon flower arrangers, Doris and Aggie, came out to see if the church was falling down! Luckily they didn’t spot us.

Then Zack decided to pop invisible and drop conkers down the vicar’s chimney. Out came the vicar. Luckily he didn’t spot us.

We’d just got all the conkers threaded when The Basher turned up. Unfortunately he did spot us. The gargoylz quickly hid behind the gravestones. The Basher was holding the biggest conker we’d ever seen. He said he was the Oldacre School Champion and challenged us to a conker fight and said if we didn’t fight he’d whack us over the head with his prize conker – The Killer. So we had to agree. Barry put his conker down and did his ‘warming up’ exercises. He looked really stupid wiggling his fingers in the air. Meanwhile Neb blended with the background and swapped the Basher’s conker for another big one. It was a mouldy one we’d found earlier. Barry didn’t notice. He picked it up, swung it round his head and gave Ben’s conker a massive whack before Ben was even ready. Barry’s conker burst and splattered him with mouldy bits.  It was awesome!  Barry ran off yelling that we’d cheated and we’d killed The Killer.

After that we had a great time with our Grand Gargoylz World Conker Championship – before Azzan got over excited and set fire to all the conkers!

Can’t wait for next weekend. We are going to a fantastic climbing course called ‘Be a Chimp’.


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