Rosie: âHow much do you bet we can do the famous âTaking a souvenir photographâ of Herr Kamyer on the banks of the Seine and he falls in when we say, âJust step back a bit, Herr Kamyer, I havenât quite got your lederhosen in yetâ?â
4:20 p.m.
Walking home with Jas. I was trying to use her as a windbreak, but she kept dodging away from me.She is unusually full of selfishosity for someone who loves me.
I said, âThank Cliff Richardâs Y-fronts that nobody knows about my accidental snogging incident.â
âWhat snogging incident?â
âI canât tell you. Itâs a secret Iâm taking to my grave.â
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Oh sacré bleu . What is the matter with Jas (besides the obvious)?
When I accidentally told her my secret that I will never tell, even in my grave, she went on and on about how I should be ashamed. She is so annoyingly good, like Mother Teresa with a crap fringe.
home
Mutti in an unusually good mood. She had even bought a pie for us on the way home. Scarily like a real mumâapart from the ludicrously short skirt. Sheâs not going to tell me that Iâm going to have another little brother or sister, is she?
Still, I canât think of everyone else. I am not God. I have enough to worry about thinking about myself.
8:00 p.m.
I am so worried about school tomorrow. I have so much to do.
8:10 p.m.
I can do my nails and foundation and eye stuff during R.E.âMiss Wilson wonât notice, as she will be sadly rambling on about the Dalai Lama or yaks or whatever it is she does talk about. But I suppose even she might notice if I took my curling tongs into class. Iâll have to do my hair at lunchtime and hope the Bummers donât decide to put their chewing gum in it for a laugh.
looking out of my bedroom window
Iâm amazed to see Naomi the sex kitten lounging around on the roof of our shed, showing off her fat tummy. She has got very little shame for an illegitimate bride. Angus is in the garden below her, blinded by his love. Well, actually heâs mostly blinded by the dirt heâs digging up. Heâs got a huge bone from somewhere and heâs burying it. Maybe for a midnight snack. He doesnât really seem to understand that he is not a dog. I may have to do some diagrams of mice for him to explain it.
I went downstairs to the kitchen to find M and V absolutely all over each other. Itâs like living in a porn movie to be in our house. Honestly, isnât she sick of him yet? (I am.) Heâs been back about a month; surely by now they must be discussing divorce.
I said, âErlack,â in a caring way to let them know I was there. But my finer feelings make no difference to the elderly snoggers. They just started giggling, likeâ¦giggling elderly snoggers.
I said, âVati, I donât want to be the person responsible for one of your unreasonable outbursts of rage, butââ
He said, âOK, as I am in a good mood you can have a fiver, because you did so well on your French test.â
I was quite literally gobsmacked. For a second. Then I grabbed the fiver.
âEr, thanksâ¦but, erm, I feel, in all fairness to you, I should let you know that Naomi is on our shed roof and that Angus is not a million miles away from her. In fact, as I left my room, he was licking her bottom.â
No one went ballisticisimus, because apparently Mr. and Mrs. Across the Road have workedout that the pedigreed boy cat they had over to visit with Naomi must have had more than a few fishy snacks with her.
Vati said, âEither that or she is having a virgin birth.â
Hey, she might be! She might be having a little furry Baby Jesus (lots of them, in fact). She is due to give birth at Christmas, after all. And God works in mysterious ways, as everyone knows.
I said to Jas on the phone, âIt makes you think, doesnât it?â
She was all weird and huffy. âNo, what makes me think is