Gargoylz Blog

Disaster!

Ben — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:44:18 +0000

We’ve got to be quick. Our horrible sisters want to know what we’ve been doing on the computer so we can’t do any more posts on this blog for a while. Arabella and Jessica are like nosy ferrets and we can’t risk them getting the password. Who knows what they’d put on – fairies probably.
The graveyard has flooded now the snow has melted so we’re off to play pirates with our gargoyle friends.

Park Pranks!

Max — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:54:46 +0000

There’s still plenty of snow around. On Saturday me and Ben got the sledge out of the garage and took it off to the park. We called for the gargoylz on the way of course and we all went to the big hill. We went so early we were the only ones there. All the garogylz came with us, even Theo who doesn’t like getting his paws wet. We had to take turns and in the end Zack and Toby decided to go off and find some more sledges. They soon came back with a broken gate, an old bath tub and the vicar’s best tea tray. It was brilliant! With four sledges we had loads of races. Then Abel had an idea. He turned into a tree and lay down in the snow. He told us to all climb on board and then we set off down the hill, riding on his trunk. (He bent all his branches up so they didn’t get caught in the snow.) Trouble was we were going so fast we didn’t stop when we got to the frozen lake! Me and Ben jumped off as we knew that the ice might break but the gargolyz zoomed straight on to it. (Even if they fell in they’d be all right, being made of stone). But then we heard the park keeper shouting at us. He said we’d pushed the tree on to the lake! He was running along towards us shouting we’d be in terrible trouble for cutting down one of the council’s precious trees and chucking it on the ice. But when he got to us there was no sign of the tree – or the gargoylz.

We looked really innocent and suggested that he’d been working too hard and he should have a cup of tea! When he’d staggered off scratching his head we picked up the gate and bath and the vicar’s tea tray and I got my sledge and me and Ben started to pull it across the park to go home but it was really heavy. It seemed to be piled high with snow but then suddenly the snow moved and the gargoylz burst out shouting ‘boo’! We had a great snowball fight! Hope there’s more snow tonight!!!

It’s snowing!

Ben — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:20:30 +0000

No time to write much – it’s snowing!! We got sent home early. We’ve got to get back out into the garden and carry on our snowball fight with the gargoylz but first we must tell you about a BRILLIANT trick they played on Mrs Hogsbum today. Our horrible headteacher said in assembly that if it snowed we would not be sent home early and we must not build any snowmen. When playtime came there was loads of snow but we saw her beaky nose at the window so we couldn’t even make a sneaky one. But when we were back in our classroom we saw that a huge ugly snowman had suddenly appeared in the playground. Mrs Hogsbum was marching along towards it shouting ‘Outrageous!’ But when she got there the snowman suddenly shook itself. All the snow fell off and there was a great big skeleton grinning at her! It was Rufus using his special power. Mrs Hogsbum screamed and tried to run back inside but she slipped and fell into a heap of snow. When she looked back Rufus had gone! Mrs Hogsbum was so upset that Mr Widget had to drive her home – and then we all got sent home early! RESULT! A great big snowball has just splatted on the window. Got to go.

Potato Powerpoint

Max — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:17:55 +0000

On Monday we all marched into assembly and there in front of us was the screen with a big picture of a potato on it. We groaned. Mrs Hogsbum hadn’t forgotten that she was going to show us her holiday photos, all about her trip to Potato World. Me and Ben used our superspy vision apparatus – our eyes – to see if there were any gargoylz in sight who could save us from this fate worse than death. But no stony ears or tails to be seen.
Every photo showed a potato – apart from the one with Mrs Hogsbum holding her favourite potato. After an hour and a half of boring potatoes, we were just about falling asleep when Mrs Hogbum bellowed ‘Outrageous’! That woke us up. On the screen was a large potato with a Christmas hat on! Everyone burst out laughing. Mrs Hogsbum clicked to the next picture. But this potato was on a skateboard. The next one was on a rollercoaster, and then there was a video of three potatoes pinging rubber bands all over her office. Now we could hear gargoyly giggling from the window so we knew who to thank for the awesome show. The gargoylz had come to our rescue. Somehow they’d got on to her computer and changed the pictures. Mrs Hogsbottom stormed out looking purple in the face and we thought that was going to be the end of the fun, but luckily Mr Widget took over and showed us the rest of the pictures which were all very funny.
Then it was chips for lunch – what a result! That’s the best way to treat a potato!!

Shopping horror

Ben — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:43:33 +0000

Our mums dragged us round the sales on Wednesday because we needed new school trousers. We hate shopping especially at the huge shopping centre in town but luckily Neb came with us. Every time our mums reached for a pair, Neb swapped them for something much too small, then much too big and then the wrong colour. In the end they got so fed up they went off to get a coffee and left us at the playzone. Result! They have all best computer games there.
We have to go back to school on Monday and we’re dreading it. It’s been so wet football will be banned, we’ll have to see the Basher again and Mrs Hogsbum said we all had to watch her holiday video. She told us she was going to Potato World. It sounds so boring. But at least we’ll see all the gargoylz every time we’re in the playground. And maybe they’ll think of something to get us out of watching Potato World.

The Haunted Christmas Tree

Max — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:07:04 +0000

We had a great Christmas and hope you did too.
We played a great trick on Arabella and Jessica. Our horrible sisters were being particularly horrible. We wanted to play Twister but they made us sit and listen to them singing for hours and when we complained our mums said we had to have more Christmas spirit! So we decided to get our own back. When they’d stopped screeching, we warned them about the haunted Christmas tree. Then we ran off and fetched Abel. All the other gargoylz came along to see the trick. For the rest of the day, Abel turned into a Christmas tree and appeared wherever the girls were. The other gargoylz took turns to sit on the top like a fairy and howl at our ghastly sisters. They ran to Mum but of course, when she came in, Abel had disappeared. It was very funny. In the end the girls sat in the corner with a blanket over their heads and we went upstairs to play Twister with the gargoylz. Rufus kept squashing everybody, Zack kept popping invisible but Jelly was really good at stretching and not falling over so he won.
Happy New Year everyone from Max, Ben and all the gargoylz.

Dough ho ho

Ben — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 11:26:00 +0000

Max’s nan got us over to make some Christmas decorations with dough. She had loads of Christmas cutters – stars and holly and stuff. It was great fun. In the middle of it she had go and answer the phone and the gargoylz crept in. They each made models of their own faces. When Nan came back she was a bit surprised we’d done so many – and said she thought they were a bit odd for Christmas decorations. We told her they were Father Christmas’s helpers – his elves are really ugly. Max’s nan looked a bit surprised but she put them in the oven anyway. We went round the next day to take them home but Max’s nan was really worried because she couldn’t find them. We said maybe they were magic disappearing decorations and we rushed off to the churchyard. We knew who’d taken them. The vicar’s Christmas tree was standing in the middle of the churchyard – and the gargoylz decorations were hanging all over it. People going by were making very rude comments. When there was no one around, the gargoylz popped out and gave us mince pies. They’d got them from the vicar’s kitchen and they were delicious.

Toby says why not make gargoyle tree decorations like we did. Awesome idea! This is how to do it. (You can do Christmas shapes instead if you want.)
You will need –
• A tame grown up
• Mixing bowl and spoon
• 1 mug of plain flour
• ½ mug of salt
• ½ mug of cold water
• 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil

Pour the flour and salt into a mixing bowl.
Add the water and vegetable oil to the bowl.
Mix it together until it makes a dough.
Take a ping-pong ball sized bit of dough and flatten it a bit. Make it into an ugly gargoyle face – not too thin or it’ll break when it’s cooked.
Make a hole in the top for hanging.
Do this until all the dough is used.
Put your gargoylz on greaseproof paper on a tray.
You can either leave them to dry for a few days, or get a grown-up to put them in the microwave for 2 or 3 minutes to harden or into the oven on a low heat until they are hard. Paint them and hang them up with string or ribbon.

Yummy!

Max — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:03:20 +0000

Ben stayed over on Friday night and we were really excited the next morning as we were going to have a Mega Cake Feast at the church Christmas fete. Then Mum told us that some sort of bug was going round so they didn’t have enough helpers and she’d told the vicar that we would help. Awesome, we thought. We’ll make sure we’re running the cake stall. But when we got there Barry the Basher’s mum was running it and he was stuffing his face. The cakes were disappearing fast. And what was worse, we were put on the ‘buy something nice for your mum for Christmas’ stall. It was covered in soap and bath salts and it smelled like flowers. Yuck! And then something even worse happened. The Basher came over and started laughing at us. He was so busy making faces that he didn’t notice a stony little paw putting tinsel round his head and pinning fairy wings to his back. Suddenly everyone was laughing at him and he didn’t know why. Until his mum gave a shriek and rushed him off. That left the cake stall in need of expert helpers – us! By the time we went home, the table was empty and we were full. And so were the gargoylz.

Introducing Nat

Ben — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:27:30 +0000

Remember the flying jam last week? We were really amazed when we found out it wasn’t Neb or Jelly that had splatted Great-aunt Betty and Arabella. We followed the gargoyly giggling sound behind the chair. We thought it would be one of our other stony friends – but it wasn’t! A tiny little gargoyle with big eyes and a mouth like a trumpet was sitting cross-legged on the floor. Jelly said his name was Nathan but we could call him Nat. Nat was a bit scared to see us until Neb told him that although we were humans, we were okay as we play lots of tricks. We said we’d never tell anyone about him and then he was really friendly and giggly. He said (in a very squeaky voice) that he lives in the witch’s handbag. This made us laugh as we knew he meant Great-aunt Betty. Well she is like a witch, or even worse. Anyway, Nat said he was getting sick of living in there with nothing to do but eat her boiled sweets and make rude noises by blowing on her comb. The gargoylz said he could come and live with them. We were just about to creep off when Great-aunt Betty came back in so Nat jumped into my pocket and Jelly and Neb hopped out of the window. We had to sit and think of things to say but luckily Nat kept blowing raspberries and my great-aunt thought it was us so she told us we must go away and learn some manners. We went straight to the church and Nat scampered off on to the roof with the others. It’s so cool having a new gargoyle friend!
It’s the church Christmas fete tomorrow – awesome. Max and I will buy loads of cakes with our pocket money and then find the gargoylz and have a feast! Yay!

Splat!

Max — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:45:34 +0000

Ben’s great-aunt Betty came to stay with him last weekend. We asked his mum if he could stay at mine as it was going to be really boring round his house. His mum said no – and worse than that, she said I should come and meet Great-aunt Betty. Ben’s great-aunt wasn’t ‘great’ at all. It turned out that she likes girls but she thinks boys should be seen and not heard. That meant we had to sit on the couch and keep still! And that’s impossible. Arabella, Ben’s bossy sister, was really enjoying the attention because Great-aunt Betty was making a huge fuss of her and telling her how clever she was. That was a disaster. It was making Arabella even more bossy.
Of course Max and I had gone prepared. We had a gargoyle or two up our sleeve. They weren’t really up our sleeves but Neb and Jelly were hiding behind the couch.
Great-aunt Betty and Arabella were helping themselves to cake and they were taking the biggest pieces so we whispered to Neb and Jelly to help us out and then we’d share the cake with them. Suddenly all the jam in the cake sploshed out and hit Great-aunt Betty and Arabella in the face! They shrieked and rushed off to the bathroom.
Ben and I rolled about the couch laughing. At that moment, Jelly popped up beside us and asked when did we want them to do their trick. We were gobsmacked! Ben said, ‘we thought it was you and Neb!” Neb appeared then and the two gargoylz looked very confused. They promised that they had nothing to do with it. Then we heard some gargoyly giggling coming from behind Great-aunt Betty’s chair.
Tell you what happened next week.