My mum’s decided we all need to GET HEALTHY. Groan! I told her I was healthy enough already but she didn’t listen even when I ran up and down the stairs twenty times to show her how fit I am. On Sunday she decided we would all go for a brisk walk in the country – and that Ben must come too. This was a double disaster – it meant we couldn’t play with the gargoylz AND our stupid sisters Jessica and Arabella had to come along.  They moaned even more loudly than us!  Then Mum said if we were lucky we might catch sight of some interesting animals.  The girls cheered up and decided to look for bunny-wunnies! We told them that there wouldn’t be bunny-wunnies in the forest as they’d all been eaten by the fierce monsters that live there. They didn’t take any notice but started telling us we were babies who still believed in fairy tales.

Well, we were plodding along this really boring track in a forest when we suddenly noticed a tree blocking our path. “That’s strange,” said Mum. “I’m sure that wasn’t there just now.”

Of course it wasn’t. We knew exactly who it was – our gargoyle friend Abel, who can make himself into a tree!

We couldn’t get past the Abel tree but we thought it would be great to climb up into his branches. But guess what!  Mum wouldn’t let us. She said we’d probably get stuck as it was such a tall tree. Then Jessica saw that some of the tree’s branches were bending over so much that they made a ‘sweet little house’. The girls rushed off to go inside. We thought that was going to be really bad for Abel – he’d be deafened by their giggling!  While we waited we mooched about in the undergrowth trying to find sticks for a sword fight but Mum said that was too dangerous. She made us do exercises on the spot instead.  All of a sudden Zack popped into view and told us not to worry. The gargoylz had a Plan.

The next second Jessica and Arabella came rushing out of their sweet little house screaming there were monsters in there – and a skeleton! They wouldn’t stop running so Mum had to chase them down the path.

As soon as they were out of sight we heard gargoyle chortling. Toby, Zack and Rufus were hiding in the house and Rufus had turned into a really cool skeleton. We all had a climb on Abel’s branches and got right to the top. Mum was ages finding the girls and said she was never going to go walking with any of us again. RESULT!

Next Thursday is World Book Day. Troy Brawn is coming to our school. He wrote the Spy-boy books and he’s our favourite author. We’re going to get signed copies of our favourite ones. YAY!

The gargoylz are going to visit schools in Kent and Essex. They’ve promised to behave. We shall see…

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Bad news – it’s nearly the end of half term already. But it has been awesome! On Monday Ben’s mum took us to have a lesson on a climbing wall that’s just opened at the leisure centre. When we told the gargoylz we were going they were really excited because we were going to learn to climb like them, and then we could all have fun on the church roof! We didn’t like to tell them that we’d get into terrible trouble if we did that. But we invited them to come along.
Anyway, when we set off that morning in Ben’s car we got into trouble anyway. There was a dreadful smell from the boot. Barney had got so excited he’d let out a prize bottom burp. Ben’s mum thought it was us and said if we did that any more we couldn’t go climbing – the smell would knock out the climbers and they’d fall off the wall.
When we got there – disaster! Lucinda and Tiffany had come along and they were going to share our lesson! They had their pink climbing helmets on and looked very smug. The instructor said that after our lesson there was going to be a climbing competition and the prize was free entry to everything at the leisure centre all week. Lucinda and Tiffany told us they would win easily as they’d been learning for ages.
Well, we had our lesson – and it didn’t go too well as we kept slipping and dangling off our safety ropes and the girls kept laughing at us. Then we went off to the new Competition Wall. It was shaped like a stone castle and it looked great, much higher than the one we’d been practising on. Some of the bricks were sticking out a little bit for hand and footholds. The instructor said we’d be the first ones to use it. Lucinda asked why we were bothering to have the competition – she knew they’d win anyway as the other team were such weeds. Max and I were furious. No icky girl was going to call us weeds! The instructor blew his whistle and we set off. At first we thought the girls would win, especially as Ben kept getting his feet stuck between the stones. They were definitely ahead. But then we heard them complaining about the wall. They said they couldn’t get over the huge lumpy bits! We didn’t have any huge lumpy bits our side so we looked across to see what was going on. Lucinda was right! There were some very strange shapes stuck to the wall that hadn’t been there before. One of them winked at us! It was Toby – he’d curled up and frozen and Lucinda was dangling from his tail. And Barney had made a really spike shape just above Poppy’s head. This was our chance. We scrambled up the wall and got to the battlements first! When we looked down the gargoylz had gone and the instructor was telling the girls not to make excuses. The wall wasn’t faulty and he couldn’t see any lumps. They’d lost fair and square. We gave them a friendly clap when they got to the top but they didn’t look too pleased.
And since then we’ve had an awesome week at the leisure centre. Theo especially likes the soft play but Neb’s favourite is the pool with all the flumes. Hope you’ve had a fantastic half term too!

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When we woke up on Sunday everything was covered in snow! Ben and I went rushing off to find the gargoylz. They were making a slide from the top of the church roof and piling up a huge heap of snow in the churchyard to land on. We got Ben’s sledge for them to use so they could go faster. Of course they all wanted to have first go, and we could see them on top of the roof fighting to get on board. In the end six of them set off with Bart steering and Theo on his head looking terrified. The sledge went so fast it overshot the landing and crashing into a tree. It was really unlucky because at that moment Barry the Basher was climbing the wall from his back garden into the churchyard, just under the tree. All the snow fell off the branches and he disappeared in the avalanche. By the time he’d fought his way out the gargoylz had vanished and all he could see was me and Ben trying not to laugh. We told him it wasn’t us who did it but he didn’t listen. Instead he stole our sledge and hopped back into his garden where we couldn’t get him.
We had to get our sledge back! We peered through a crack in the wall while Enoch called, “Outrageous! Give that sledge back this minute!” in Mrs Hogsbum’s voice! We saw Barry going pale and start to bury the sledge in the snow. Then Enoch called out, “If you do not give that sledge back now, I will come and get it!” At once Barry sat down on the buried sledge and tried to look innocent. We were amazed that he didn’t run away. Perhaps he thought that Mrs Hogsbum wouldn’t be able to get over the wall!
Time for part two of the plan. Zack popped invisible and Neb camouflaged himself. We saw their footprints as they climbed into Barry’s garden. Of course he couldn’t see our friends, but what he did see was a great big snowman magically taking shape in front of him. It had bony fingers, a long pointy nose and an angry face. It was a snow-Hogsbum!
That was too much for Barry. He dug out the sledge as fast as he could, slung it over the wall and ran in crying to his mum. We had sledge races with the gargoylz for the rest of the day.
As there wasn’t any more snow the school didn’t shut even for one day this week! It wasn’t too bad as the playground was still covered and we made mini snow-Hogsbums for Barry to find. For some reason he hasn’t bullied anyone since!
Half term next week. WE CAN’T WAIT!!

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Mrs Hogsbottom gave us a funny look on Monday but she didn’t say anything. We reckon she was too embarrassed about getting soaked on Saturday.
We hadn’t forgotten that we wanted to play a trick on Lucinda, Poppy and Tiffany – remember they laughed at us when we had to join Wasps in Need, Miss Bleet’s stupid charity. When we went into the classroom on Monday there was a printed note from Mrs Hogsbottom to Miss Bleet on her table that she hadn’t read. We weren’t supposed to see it but this is what it said.

Dear Miss Bleet
Yesterday some of the pupils in your class made loud noises when they went past my room at playtime and made me spill my coffee down my best cardigan. It was outrageous. They are breaking school rule number 369 – pupils must not make the headteacher jump and spill her coffee down her best cardigan. I intend to lie in wait today and catch those pupils IN THE ACT.
from Mrs Hogsbottom

That gave us a brilliant idea. We hid the note and printed off our own…
Dear Miss Bleet
I didn’t have much sleep last night as my pet tarantula got out and I spent half the night trying to catch him so I may fall asleep today and that would be outrageous. Please ask some of the pupils in your class to make very loud noises outside my room to keep me awake. They will be rewarded.
from Mrs Hogsbottom

Miss Bleet read the note out to the class and Lucinda, Poppy and Tiffany put their hands up straight away – little creeps. We knew Miss Bleet would choose them as they’re such goody goodies. Off they went with drums and hooters, looking very smug and soon there was a load of banging and hooting from down the corridor followed by the biggest OUTRAGEOUS we’d ever heard. Then it all went quiet.
We didn’t see the horrible girls all day so we think they got their reward!
It’s going to snow tomorrow! Let’s hope school has to shut on Monday. Then we can play snowballs with the gargoylz!!!

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