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Bathsheba Clarice de Trop
Hi! I'm Bathsheba Clarice de Trop. You can read the thrilling details of my life in my diaries. I called my first diary Chips, Beans and Limousines. You'll find out why when you read it – it's really exciting!
For ages my diary was my best friend, and I still tell it everything. But now you're my friend too, I can share all my secrets and favourite things with you.
As I love writing my diary so much, I decided to keep on with it when I started my first EVER school! You can read all about my spectacular school adventures (and find out the meaning of the word QUACKO!) in Socks, Shocks and Secrets, my second diary.
My favourite things
Here are my top 10 all-time favourite things! Ooh, I know, why don’t you tell me your favourite things and you can read all my other new friends' fave things and it will be just like having a Secret Friends Club. (Although maybe not that secret, because it is on the internet.)
- 10) Chips and beans! They are my favourite food. Although my dad, Bill, says it's probably not healthy to have them every day.
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Being on the top deck of a bus. SO much more fun than a limousine where you can't see anything from the windows.
- 8) The Natural History Museum, and seeing the dinosaur which is the size of a bus. Hmm, I wonder what the view is like from the top deck of a dinosaur?
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Rollerblading... Falling over – getting up – falling over – getting up... It's more fun than it sounds, honestly.
- 6) Having friends. Real ones!! (No offence, dear Diary.)
- 5) Having two ponies is great, especially now I have someone to go riding with (my friend Keisha!).
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Acting is also one of my favourite things. The other day Natasha, our housekeeper, told me I was too theatrical. I told her, "Natasha, it is IMPOSSIBLE to be too theatrical, so there!"
- 3) Stickers. Especially glittery ones. When I go to school (for the first time ever!) I am going to put glittery stickers all over my folders and books and bag, so everyone will see me coming. Ooo, I can't wait!!
- 2) Keisha's amazing view from her high-rise flat! Having a house with three sitting rooms is really cool, of course, but when I look out of Keisha's window, it feels as if her bedroom is as big as the whole sky.
- 1) Having a Dad. I didn't really have one for a long time, so sometimes having mine around now makes my heart feel as big as the whole sky too.
Top-ten school tips
School was really scary at first, but I survived – yay me!
Here's my top-ten school survival tips and, ooh, why don't you write and tell me your best bits about school plus you can read my new friends' best bits and then our Not-So-Secret-Secret-Friends-Club will get bigger and bigger!
- 10) Do not wear a feather boa to school – teachers don’t like it.
- 9) It’s quite hard trying to find the right classrooms at first, but you get used to it. (Hmm, I wish there was school satnav...)
- 8) Ties are difficult, but they are like riding a bike – you only have to learn once and then you can do it for ever.
- 7) School clubs are lots of fun, if you find the right one for you!
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Schools usually have lots of rules - most of them quacko, or designed to stop you having fun. BUT, mixed in there are some really important ones which Could Save Your Life. It’s not always easy to tell which is which... so you probably ought to follow them all (except the impossible ones, like "Have Your Shirt Tucked In At All Times").
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That very horrible noise is the bell, and it means you should be somewhere else. Maybe I will start a petition to Mr. Baxter-Bix to get it replaced with a friendlier noise, like a happy lamb going "Baaaa"...
- 4) If a lesson is boring, it is quite tempting to spend it writing more interesting things under a desk, but it’s very embarrassing if you get caught!
- 3) School is exhausting! Remember to have some fun at the weekends. You deserve it!
- 2) You don't have to be the very best at every subject – or even at any subject – you should just try your hardest.
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Being the only new girl in the class can be scary. But remember, you just have to be yourself. Everyone will like you and want to be friends. (Yes they will! Why wouldn’t they? You are FANTASTIC!!)
My diaries
Chips, beans and limousines
Meet Bathsheba – a star in the making from a hugely funny and talented new writer.
£5.99
Socks, shocks and secrets
The second outing for the loveable and delusional star-in-the-making – Bathsheba’s back!
£5.99
Doughnuts, dreams and drama queens
The third outing for the loveable and delusional star-in-the-making – Bathsheba’s back!
£5.99
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