We waited outside Arabella’s bedroom to hear her angry shrieks when she found the pink feathers all over her bed but there was absolute silence.  We couldn’t believe it.  Then Mum called us downstairs for tea. We don’t know how Arabella did it but our muffins were stuffed full of pink feathers! 

We weren’t going to let her get the better of us.  We thought we’d wait a few days until she’d forgotten all about it and then yesterday we played a wonderful trick.  Swotty Arabella had worked really hard on a project about barometers.  (They hang on the wall and tell you what the weather’s going to be like – boring!)   On our way to school, she went on and on about how it was the best project ever and she was the brainiest girl in the school and her teacher would be really pleased with her when she whipped it out of her bag.  Little did she know that we had a prank in store for her.

When we got to the playground, she put her bag down and started chatting with her horrible friends.  Barney was hiding in a nearby hedge and he made one of his best smells.  The girls all ran away coughing and spluttering, leaving their bags behind.  Quick as a flash, Toby grabbed the project and flew away with it.  Meanwhile Cyrus quickly shredded some paper with his claws and shoved that in her bag instead so it would look as if she’d torn her project into pieces.  Then we all went into our classes.

Soon there was a humungous shriek from Arabella down the corridor.  I jumped up and told Miss Bleet that my sister needed me.  Max and I dashed out of the door to where Toby was waiting for us with the project. We grabbed it and ran along to Arabella’s classroom.  We peered through the glass door at her.  She was having a tantrum, chucking shredded paper everywhere as she ransacked her bag looking for her project.  Her teacher looked cross.

I knocked at the door and asked in my sweetest voice if Arabella had lost anything.  Then I held up the project.  Arabella went purple and shrieked that I had stolen it.  It was great because her teacher got really cross then and told Arabella she should be grateful to have such a lovely brother. 

Max and I did the biggest high five ever outside! 

It’s Valentine’s day on Monday which is really yucky.  Wonder if we can play a special Valentine’s trick on someone?

Categories: Enemy agents, Gargoylz, Pranks
Tags: Arabella Barney Ben Cyrus Gargoylz Max Miss Bleet Toby

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Our sisters’ dance show was the most hilarious thing in the history of most hilarious things – and all thanks to Neb and Zack.  We told them that we needed help and they came along with us to the hall.  Of course no one else knew they were there because Neb blended against Jessica’s dance bag and Zack popped invisible. 

The show was as bad as we thought – full of dancing pixies and furry animals.  Ben and I got really fidgety.  We had to sit through ten minutes of this and Neb and Zack hadn’t played any pranks at all.  I was just telling Ben that I thought they must have gone to sleep somewhere when Mum poked us in the back.  She told us that if we didn’t keep quiet we’d be banned from playing football for a month!  So we zipped our lips while Jessica and eight other little lambs skipped about.  (They looked more like a herd of hippopotamuses.)  Then Arabella pranced on to the stage to do a dance called the Dying Duck.  She had a stupid pink costume on which was covered in feathers.  Ben and I were just agreeing that we’d never seen a pink duck before when we remembered the footie ban threat and shut up.

Arabella was jumping and twirling to some horrible twinkly music when suddenly the feathers on her dress began to fly off into the air.  We knew what was happening of course.  Invisible paws were plucking the dancing duck!  The feathers were all around Arabella like a pink blizzard.  She tried to dance on, spitting out bits of fluff when suddenly she began to spin like a top across the stage and then disappeared into the wings.  There was an earsplitting crash and that was the end of the show.  She’d bowled into the rest of the farm animals and they were all shrieking so loudly with terror they couldn’t dance.  Result!

I’m at Ben’s house now for tea and we’re going to leave some pink feathers all over her bed! 

Categories: Enemy agents, Gargoylz, Pranks
Tags: Arabella Ben Gargoylz Jessica Max Neb Pranks tricks Zack

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Muffin making didn’t quite turn out to be as easy as we thought. Toby, Barney, Neb and Cyrus came with us to Max’s nan’s house. We told them that they could help when Max’s nan wasn’t looking so they went off and hid. While we were getting out the ingredients, Cyrus poked his head out of a cupboard and started to sing. Max and I put our fingers in our ears so we wouldn’t fall asleep but Max’s poor nan started snoring face down in a mixing bowl. We tried to be cross but it was very funny.

The gargoylz said that as we had ten minutes before she opened her eyes, they could help us get everything ready and give her a big surprise. Well, she certainly got a big surprise! We put all the ingredients in a bowl and Neb jumped in and snorkelled round. He said he was mixing it all up but he squirted most of it round the room. By the time Max’s nan woke up there was egg on the ceiling, butter all over the bread bin and flour in the cooker. In the end she made the muffins and we ate them – at least, we ate as many as we could before the gargoylz got their stony paws on them!

This Saturday is going to be soooo boring. Max and I have to go and watch Jessica and Arabella take part in some sort of girly dance show. Hold on – maybe if the gargoylz come along it won’t be so bad…

Categories: Enemy agents, Gargoylz
Tags: Arabella Barney Ben Cyrus Gargoylz Jessica Max Neb Toby

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Max’s trick on his dad didn’t quite go to plan but it was very funny.  He rubbed lead from a pencil on a pair of glasses but he didn’t realise his mum was going to borrow them for a second to write a note. Then she took them off and set off to fetch Jessica from Brownies and as it was cold she put her furry hat on as well. It’s got two points like ears. Brown Owl thought she’d come dressed as a great horned owl! And Max’s mum never understood why. The lead had rubbed off by the time she got home so she just thinks that Brown Owl is owl-obsessed!

We thought school was going to be really boring today because Mr Widget was leading Year Four on a snowdrop hunt!  We were waiting in the playground to set off for Oldacre Wood when Barry Price, codename: The Basher, barged into us.  He knocked me flying and I dropped my gloves in a puddle which made him really laugh and made my hands really cold. Max lent me one of his and we had to keep swapping to stop our fingers freezing and snapping off!

When we reached the wood, we had to search for snowdrops. The girls all shrieked with delight and ran around poking and prodding in the leaves. Max and I mooched about. I mean, who wants to find flowers in a place full of great trees to climb? But then we heard some gargoyly giggling and Zack and Neb popped up. They’d seen what had happened in the playground and had brought me some of the vicar’s gloves to borrow. They were a bit big but nice and cosy.  Then we got ready to play a trick on Barry Price to pay him back for being so mean. We got Zack to pop invisible and Neb to blend with the wood and take the vicar’s big gloves and sit in the oldest, tallest, spookiest looking tree in the wood. Then we told Barry that no one had ever climbed that tree as it was haunted. Of course the Basher went straight up it. As soon as Barry was up high, and sneering down at us, Zack and Neb put the vicar’s gloves on and waved them in Barry’s face. Zack wailed that he was the Ghastly Glove Ghost and he hoped no one had been nasty or he would scare them till their hair fell out. Barry hasn’t got much hair but he was still terrified. Then Zack said in a really spooky voice that only thing the Basher could do to make up for it, was to pick the biggest snowdrop he could find for teacher. Barry jumped down the tree immediately. It was so funny to see him scampering about trying to find the biggest flower for Mr Widget. And when he did Mr Widget told him off as no one’s was meant to pick the snowdrops. He didn’t listen when Barry said that the Ghastly Glove Ghost had told him to do it. It was awesome!

We’re back at school now and I’ve got a few minutes on the class computer. The Basher hasn’t said a word to anyone since we got back. That makes a change. Uh oh! He’s staring at the vicar’s gloves that Zack and Neb scared him with. They’re sticking out of my pocket. I forgot to take them back to the gargoylz so they could take them back to the vicar.

I think he suspects that Max and I had something to do with the Ghastly Glove Ghost. We’re going to be in BIG TROUBLE! HELP!

Categories: Enemy agents, Gargoylz, Pranks
Tags: Barry the Basher Ben Gargoylz Jessica Max Mr Weedy Widget Neb Zack

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I had an awesome Christmas Day with lots of goodies to eat and loads of presents. And I hope you did too.  But the best day was Boxing Day because I saw Max and the gargoylz.

We met up with Max and his family to have a long walk and a pub lunch because our parents said they’d done enough cooking! Max and I didn’t want to go on a boring walk until we found that the gargoylz were coming too. 

Arabella and Jessica were being really bossy and telling us not to jump in the mud as it was dirty. We told them they had to be careful not to upset the mud monsters. Arabella put on her most annoying bossy monitor face and said there were no such things as mud monsters.

Can you guess what happened next?

As soon as the grownups had gone on ahead, a whole army of mud monsters jumped out on the girls and splattered them with mudpies. One of the monsters turned into a mud kitten, another one burped muddy spiders and there was a dreadful pong.  The girls ran shrieking to our parents and got told off for getting so muddy.

 It’s New Year’s Eve and tonight Max is coming to my house and we’re allowed to stay up until midnight when it’ll be 2011 – as long as we go to bed straight after. All the gargoylz are coming so it’s going to be a bit of a squeeze.

Wow! Ira’s just reminded me that we’ve been doing this blog for a whole year. Awesome!

Happy gargoyling new year, Gargoylz fans!

from

Max and Ben

and

Abel, Azzan, Barney, Bart, Cyrus, Eli, Ira, Jelly, Neb, Ruben, Rufus, Theo, Toby, Zack

Categories: Enemy agents, Gargoylz, Pranks
Tags: Arabella Ben Gargoylz Jessica Max

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Nan’s cakes were the best cakes in the history of best cakes. The only trouble was, she didn’t make enough of them. Well, she wasn’t to know that ten of our gargoyle friends would sneak along to her house with us and try to eat the lot. Ben and I only got three each because every time she went out of the room to get us more drinks the gargoylz popped in and snatched more.

We went back to my house afterwards. It was quite misty and the gargoylz ran along the pavement with us and no one could see them properly. One man thought we were walking a load of dogs when he saw all the little shapes scuttling along with us in the mist. Then he spotted Toby flying overhead. We told him we were walking the parrot too.

When we got home, Jessica came running out shrieking that everywhere was ‘mystery’. We knew she meant misty, but it gave us an idea for a trick. (She’s been really horrible as she wasn’t allowed to go to Nan’s with us.) We said we’d go out into the back garden with her and investigate the mystery. Then Max got the gargoylz to hide all round the flowerbeds and in the trees. Jessica followed us outside and yelped.  She said there was an ugly thing waving its nose at her from a bush. We had a look. It was Neb, of course, but we told Jessica it was just a twig. Then she said she could see a nasty-looking monster with long hair sitting on the roof. That was Eli, wiggling his snakes. Then the branch of a big tree bent over and tapped Jessica on the back. She nearly deafened us yelling that the tree was alive and coming to get her. We knew it was Abel in his tree form.

Mum told us not to tease Jessica and wouldn’t listen when we said it wasn’t us. Anyway, tomorrow we’ve got to bake some cakes for Jessica. Not fair.  I wonder what we can put in them so she won’t be too keen on eating them. Hmmmm…

Categories: Enemy agents, Gargoylz, Pranks
Tags: Abel Ben Eli Gargoylz Jessica Max Neb Toby

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Halloween was super spooky!  Max dressed as a mummy with blood-soaked bandages (tomato sauce) and I was a zombie, with my face painted green. When our friends arrived in their awesome costumes we set off to go trick-a-treating.  Mum took us – and we only went to people we knew of course. It was awesome!  (Even though Jessica insisted on being dressed as a pink princess.)  Theo thought he was being a fierce ghostly tiger but could only manage a sweet little kitten!  Everyone loved our costumes – especially the skeleton at the back of the line. That was Rufus if you hadn’t guessed.  Abel came as well and kept turning into different trees and shaking his branches at everyone. We came back with lots of goodies.

Then we played games. Max is the best at apple bobbing although his bandages got very wet.  He said he was an underwater mummy!  We put a bowl of water and some apples out in the garden for the gargoylz to play too where no one would see them. They spluttered so loudly that Mum and Dad thought the drains were playing up. Then we had a ghastly ‘pass the parcel’ with sets of vampire teeth in each layer.

Max’s mum cooked little sausages and Max and I had done our spaghetti and mozzarella and we all pretended they were ghouls’ fingers, guts, and eyeballs!  Max’s mum had made a chocolate cake that looked like a coffin.  It was scrumptious.  She was surprised to find it had all gone when she went to put the leftovers away.  Rufus, Theo and Abel all had very chocolatey stone faces when they went home.

Then we told each other ghost stories!  Max told the best one. A boy was going home through the dark graveyard when he heard a tapping noise. He was really scared until he came across a man, chiselling away at one of the tombstones. “Oh,” he said in relief. “I didn’t know anyone worked here this late.” The man shook his head. “I don’t work here. I’m just sorting this out.” He pointed to the tombstone. “They’ve spelt my name wrong, you see.”

Do you get it?  At least the gargoylz weren’t scared to go home to their graveyard.

Got to dash now. We’re off the church fireworks display. Bet the Gargoylz will be watching.

Categories: Gargoylz, jokes
Tags: Abel Ben fireworks Gargoylz Halloween Max Rufus Theo

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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.

Categories: Enemy agents, Gargoylz
Tags: Adventure Arabella assault course Ben Gargoylz Max

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Miss Bleet nearly saw our blog last week.  Just in time, Max fell off his chair and pretended he’d broken his nose so she forgot all about the tea cosies – whatever they are.

The Harvest Festival was nearly a disaster, thanks to the gargoylz!  When we told them about the food collection, they all rubbed their tummies and said it sounded like a nice feast.  We told them that the food was for the old people and they promised to leave it alone but when Max and I went to add our tins of spaghetti hoops to the pile we found that everything had been opened and scoffed.  We knew it was the gargoylz because there was a trail of custardy claw prints leading to the window.

And then we heard Mrs Hogsbottom coming.  (She was yelling at some infants and the sound was getting louder and louder.)  We quickly wiped away the prints and covered the mess with our new tins just as she came in.  She looked at us suspiciously and went on her way.  We knew we were in big trouble.  The moment she discovered the food had been eaten, she’d blame us because she’d seen us there.

We went to find the gargoylz and gave them a telling off.  They said they were very sorry but the food had looked so nice that they couldn’t resist. They told us they would sort it all out.

And they did!  Barney sneaked into the vicar’s kitchen and made muffins and cookies.  They were strange shapes and a bit burnt because Azzan helped him by breathing fire but he made loads and put them on pretty plates.  Then Abel and Eli carried all the food from the vicar’s larder into the school hall to replace the things that the gargoylz had eaten.  The next time Mrs Hogsbum checked on the display it was bursting with food and Max and I were safe.

We felt a bit sorry for the vicar because Miss Bleet recognised the plates and told him off for burning the cookies!

I can hear Arabella screeching from her bedroom.  I think she might have found the fake dog poo I put on her carpet.

Categories: Enemy agents, Gargoylz, Pranks
Tags: Abel Arabella Azzan Barney Ben Eli Gargoylz Harvest Festival Max Miss Bleet Mrs Hogsbum Pranks vicar

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I’m on the class computer and I’m supposed to be looking up tea cosies through the ages.   (I don’t even know what tea cosies are but they’re sure to be stupid if Miss Bleet’s interested in them!)

We had an awesome day on Sunday – a whole day of footie training.  It was run by Oldacre Town FC and we actually played on their pitch.  Ben and I had just started dribbling practice when someone else turned up – Barry Price.  And he’d brought his four cousins with him.  They barged about with the Basher, crashing into kids and spoiling everything.

Then we had a five-a-side competition.  Ben and I were in a team with Duncan and two boys we didn’t know.  We won our first match one-nil – Ben scored a dazzler – but then disaster struck.  We had to play Barry’s team with the Basher in goal.  They all flattened us like bulldozers.  They should have been red carded but the ref was scared of them.

Then the gargoylz came to the rescue. It was nearly the end of the match and we were five goals down and we heard a whisper from under the away bench.  It was Zack and Jelly.  They’d come to watch and realised we needed an emergency gargoyle trick.

Before we knew what had happened Jelly had turned into a squashy ball.  Zack popped invisible and suddenly the Jelly ball was sailing towards the goal.  Zack must have thrown him!  Barry thought it was the real ball and dived to save it. It got stuck to his hands and his cousins all rushed up to pull it off him. While they were doing that Ben and I both scored a hat trick and won the match six-five! And the best thing was that Barry and his cousins got told off for playing with a baby’s toy.

We were really helpful at the end of the match. We unstuck the ‘baby’s toy’ and said we’d get rid of it. The Basher and his cousins all scowled at us and we managed not to laugh as we took Jelly away.

Right got to go and find some tins of food.  Mrs Hogsbottom has ordered us to bring things in for the harvest festival next week.  She and Mr Widget are going to make a display and then all the food is going to be given to the old people in the village.  Mrs Hogsbum has told us that anyone who doesn’t do this will be breaking School Rule Number 836 – Children must not forget to bring in food for the Harvest Festival when the head teacher has ordered them to do it.

Whoops!  Here comes Miss Bleet and I haven’t found out what a tea cosy is.

Categories: News
Tags: Barry the Basher Ben football Gargoylz Jelly Max Miss Bleet Mr Weedy Widget Mrs Hogsbum Zack

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