#daisy #daisystory #storybook Daisy and the trouble with chocolate |Read Aloud | Children's Story

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Summary

TLDRIn this humorous children's story, a student named Daisy receives a letter from school asking if her family would be willing to take care of the classroom hamsters, Pickle and Pops, over the Easter holidays. Excited by the idea, Daisy tries to fill out the form herself using a purple felt tip pen, signing it as 'mum,' which leads to a series of mischievous attempts to rectify the situation. Despite the initial confusion, Daisy's mother agrees to host the hamsters on the condition that Daisy will be the primary caretaker. Daisy eagerly anticipates spending time with the hamsters and discusses various scenarios regarding their care. There's also a misunderstanding about the Plague of London being caused by hamsters. The story unfolds with Daisy's boundless excitement and optimism about her holiday duties.

Takeaways

  • 📜 A letter from school can cause both excitement and chaos when misunderstood.
  • 🐹 Daisy's excitement to care for Pickle and Pops underscores her love for animals.
  • ✏️ Filling forms incorrectly can lead to humorous situations and lessons learned.
  • 🕒 Waiting can feel endless when eagerly anticipating something exciting.
  • 📚 Misconceptions about historical events, like the Plague, can arise easily.
  • 🎉 Having hamsters at home is deeply thrilling for a young child.
  • 🚫 Hamsters don't eat Easter eggs; chocolate is bad for them.
  • 🤔 Children have wild imaginations about pet care tasks.
  • 🤥 Inventive stories can sometimes get us out of tight spots.
  • 🚪 Daisy's enthusiasm makes for a delightful and entertaining holiday story.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The narrator receives a letter from their teacher about hosting class hamsters, Pickle and Pops, during Easter. They excitedly discuss with a friend, Gabby, about filling out the form themselves as their mom might be confused by the complex wording. The narrator's attempt using purple felt-tip pen is recognized as non-convincing, leading to a failed attempt to submit it. They concoct a story about a bird stealing the letter to get a replacement from Mrs. Peters.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The narrator manages to persuade their mom to agree to look after the hamsters, and they are to be kept in the narrator's bedroom. Overjoyed, they dwell on their future plans with Pickle and Pops, eagerly anticipating the holidays despite having to wait through remaining school days. Meanwhile, they dismiss a schoolmate Jack's incorrect claims about hamsters causing historical diseases, reinforcing rational knowledge about the plague's real vectors.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:17:27

    Finally, the long-awaited Friday arrives, and the narrator goes to pick up the hamsters with their mom and Gabby. Amidst the excitement, logistical delays such as forgetting the car extend the waiting. Once home, the narrator eagerly sets up the hamsters in their room, contemplating on their care and humorous imaginings of hamster needs. The clips end with the narrator’s eager anticipation of spending the Easter holidays with Pickle and Pops.

Mind Map

Video Q&A

  • What does the letter from school say?

    The letter invites the child's family to take care of two class hamsters, Pickle and Pops, during the Easter holiday.

  • Who are Pickle and Pops?

    Pickle and Pops are two hamsters from the classroom that need a temporary home during the Easter holidays.

  • What happens when the child tries to fill out the form?

    The child fills out the form in purple felt tip and signs 'mum' instead of using their mother's real name, leading to problems.

  • Does the child's mother agree to take the hamsters home?

    Yes, the mother agrees on the condition that the child will take care of them.

  • How does the child feel about taking home the hamsters?

    The child is very excited about having the hamsters for the Easter holiday.

  • What is the child's plan for the hamsters during the holiday?

    The child plans to feed, clean, and take care of the hamsters, enjoying their company throughout the Easter holiday.

  • What misunderstanding occurs about the Plague of London?

    A boy claims hamsters caused the Plague of London, but it is clarified that it was spread by fleas on rats.

  • What problem does the child face with the first letter from school?

    The child has to destroy the form because it was filled out incorrectly, so they invent a story to get another from the teacher.

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  • 00:00:02
    [Music]
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    chapter three
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    as soon as the bell for morning break
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    went that wednesday
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    gabby and me ran out into the playground
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    to read the special letter that mrs
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    peters had given me to take home to my
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    mum
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    it said
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    dear mrs butters
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    as part of a new and exciting innovative
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    to increase your child's awareness of
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    the natural world
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    our class has welcomed two hamsters into
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    its fold
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    pickle and pops are firm favorites with
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    the children but we'll be looking for
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    her home
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    outside of school for the duration of
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    the easter holidays
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    can you help
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    would you and your child be willing and
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    able to look after two lovable hamsters
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    returning them safely to the school
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    after the holiday
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    if so please tick each of the boxes
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    below accordingly
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    sign and return to the school office
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    yes my child and i would be delighted to
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    look after pickle and pops
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    my child and i have no known allergy to
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    hamsters
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    my child and i have no known allergy to
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    hamster food or sawdust
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    my child and i have no known allergy to
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    fruits or vegetables
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    i
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    slash we
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    accept full responsibility for any
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    discomfort that may occur as a direct or
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    indirect result of lifting a hamster
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    cage
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    i slash we
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    accept full responsibility for any
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    disorientation
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    dizziness and slash or
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    any other side effects that may be
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    caused by the repetitive spinning of a
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    hamster's wheel
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    signature of parent
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    and undertake to pay for any veterinary
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    attention that may be needed over the
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    sit over the said period of hamster care
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    it took me and gabby nearly the whole of
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    morning break to read the letter
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    we understood the
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    dear mrs butter's bit
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    but got really confused by all the rest
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    what if your mum gets confused too
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    askgabby
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    what if she gets so confused by the
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    letter she won't sign the form
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    i'm going to put tix in all the boxes
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    and sign it for her i said
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    getting my pencil case out of my school
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    bag
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    the trouble with filling in a form for
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    your mum is you have to make it look
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    like your mum has done all the filling
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    in
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    mum
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    trouble is i did it in purple felt tip
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    when i showed my filled in forms to
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    gabby
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    she said that parents don't usually
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    write in purple felt tip
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    plus they usually do joined up writing
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    plus i had signed mum
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    instead of tiffany butters
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    which meant there was no way mrs peters
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    would believe my mum had failed in the
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    form
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    which meant there was no way mrs peters
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    would believe
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    my mum had said yes
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    which meant there was no way i could
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    give the form back to mrs peters
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    which meant i had to screw it up
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    into a ball and throw it in the rubbish
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    bin which meant
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    i didn't even have
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    a special letter to take home anymore
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    the trouble with not having a special
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    letter to take home anymore is
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    i had to persuade mrs peters to give me
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    another one
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    say a dog ate it said gabby
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    there aren't any dogs in the playground
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    i said
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    say jack beach whistle ate it
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    said gabby
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    it's okay
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    i said
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    i know exactly what i'm going to tell
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    her
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    the trouble with telling mrs peters that
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    the wind had blown the letter out of my
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    hand during morning break
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    and her bird had swooped down and
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    carried it off and it speak is
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    i'm not sure she believed me at first
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    i never knew we had pelicans in the area
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    daisy
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    she said
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    oh perhaps it was a toucan
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    i'm not sure i said
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    but its beak was massive
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    in fact
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    i was lucky
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    it didn't fly off in my school bag as
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    well luckily
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    mrs peters totally believed me
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    and gave me another letter to take home
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    only this time i didn't fill it in
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    this time i decided to cross my fingers
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    instead
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    chapter
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    four when i ran out of out after school
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    to meet my mum
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    i was so excited i could have burst
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    thank goodness i'd been to the loo
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    because
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    guess what
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    my mum said yes
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    as long as it would be me
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    looking after the hamsters over the
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    holidays and not her
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    which was a bit of a weird thing to say
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    if you ask me
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    gabby was really excited for me too
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    especially when my mum said i could keep
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    pickle and pops in my bedroom
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    mom even said
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    i could put that cage right beside my
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    bed
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    i couldn't believe it
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    it was going to be the best easter
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    holiday
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    ever
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    i didn't care whose turn it was to feed
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    pickle and pops for the rest of the week
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    now
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    or even who got to clean them out
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    because i knew that as soon as we broke
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    up from school on friday
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    i was going to have pickle and pups
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    all to myself for a whole two weeks
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    and their cage and their wheel
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    and their food and their drinks bottle
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    and their sawdust and everything
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    i would be able to feed them every day
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    and even clean them out every day if i
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    wanted to
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    how brilliant is that
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    all i had to do now was wait to take
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    them home
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    and wait
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    and wait
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    and wait
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    and wait
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    the trouble with being told on a
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    wednesday that you are going to be
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    hamster guardian of the easter holiday
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    is
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    once wednesday's over
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    you still have to wait for thursday to
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    be over
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    before you even get to friday
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    plus
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    even when you get to friday
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    you have to do
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    another whole day of lessons before you
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    break up for the easter holidays at the
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    end of the afternoon
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    it was so
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    frustrating
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    my mum told me that i should stop
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    wishing my life away
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    but i was but i wasn't wishing my life
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    away at all
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    i was just wishing my life had real life
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    actual hamsters in it
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    living with me at home
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    why did i have to go to boring school
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    first
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    why couldn't i be hamster guardian of
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    the easter holiday straight away
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    i don't know how many rubber bands jack
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    beach whistle pinged at me over the last
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    two days of school
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    but he was definitely
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    definitely
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    jealous
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    in the playground on thursday
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    jack told me and gabby that about 500
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    years ago
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    a really bad disease
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    called the great plague of london had
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    been caused by hamsters
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    and that i would probably catch it too
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    now
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    luckily
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    barry marley was listening
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    so when jack had gone he told us it
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    wasn't caused by hamsters at all
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    it was caused by rats which don't even
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    look anything like hamsters
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    because they have much longer tails
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    when i asked my mum
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    she said the great pig of london
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    wasn't even caused by wraps
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    it was caused by fleas that lived on
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    laks on rats
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    which was even better news
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    because fleas don't look anything like
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    hamsters either
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    and even if they did
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    pickle and pops didn't have any fleas
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    because if they did
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    i would have noticed them when i was
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    being hamster monitor
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    so there was no way i was going to catch
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    the great plague of london
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    or even the little plague of london
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    and even if i did
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    the first thing i would do when i got
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    back to school
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    is breathe it all over jack beach
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    whistle
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    that would stop him and his rubber bands
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    when the bell
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    finally went at the end of school on
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    friday
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    it felt like i'd been waiting about 20
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    weeks
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    and even then i had to wait for my mum
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    to turn up
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    and wait and wait and waits
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    because when she did turn up and saw me
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    and gabby by the hamsters
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    she had to go all the way home again
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    because she had forgotten to bring the
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    car with her
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    it was so
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    embarrassing
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    when my mum finally turned up and mrs
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    peters finally gave me pickle and pop's
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    cage to hold
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    i was so excited i nearly burst
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    mom took the hamster food and gabby
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    carried the sawdust
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    we had absolutely
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    everything we needed for the perfect
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    holiday
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    happy easter
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    said mrs peters as we left the
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    classroom you too
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    said my mum
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    see you in two weeks
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    i'd never carried a hamster cage out of
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    a classroom before
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    it was so
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    brilliant when we got to the car
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    mum made me give her the cage
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    to hold while gabby and i got in and did
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    up our seat belts
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    but as soon as my seat belt was clicked
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    i made mum give me the cage back
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    straight away
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    they've woken up
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    said gabby
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    poking her finger through the bars
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    gabby was right
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    pickle and pops definitely looked more
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    jumpity than before
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    i think they're excited about coming
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    to live with me i said
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    i'd be excited about coming to live with
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    you
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    said as we pulled up outside her house
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    especially for two weeks
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    i know i grinned
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    if next
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    friday is called
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    good friday
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    then this friday should be called best
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    friday
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    best ever friday
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    gabby waved
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    see you tomorrow
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    when we arrived at my house i couldn't
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    get my seat belt off quick enough
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    as soon as i got pickle and pops through
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    the front door
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    i carried them straight up to my bedroom
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    mum helped me helped with the sawdust
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    and food
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    but i was totally in charge of their
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    cage
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    i wonder if they eat easter eggs
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    i said as i settled them down on the
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    table next to my bed
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    no they do not eat easter eggs
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    growled my mum
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    chocolate was not designed
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    for hamsters
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    daisy
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    in fact
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    it is one of the worst things you can
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    ever feed an animal
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    i said
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    no
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    i i was only wondering i said
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    i wasn't going to actually give them any
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    i'm pleased to hear it
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    mom frowned
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    i wonder if they're hungry though i said
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    lying down on my bed
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    and watching them from my pillow
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    they have plenty of food to eat if they
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    are
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    said mom
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    i wonder if they are thirsty i said
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    they know where their water bottle is if
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    they are
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    said mum
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    i wonder if they fancy some fruit
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    i said
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    there is fruit in the fruit bowl if they
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    do
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    said mum
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    i wonder if their whiskers need brushing
  • 00:16:07
    i said
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    you can keep your hands off my hairbrush
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    if they do
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    said mum
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    i wonder if their wheel needs oiling
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    i said
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    you can stay out of your shed if it does
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    said mum
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    i wonder if their toenails need clipping
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    i said
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    not even with the red scissors
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    mom frowned
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    i wonder if they want me to read them a
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    story i said
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    i wonder if this is going to be the
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    longest two weeks of my life
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    sign my mum
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    oh goodness
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    oh good there's someone at the door
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