Belle Pepper

Once you are friends

Do you have any pets? I had a cat once. It sat on the mat all day. Then Dad sat on it by accident, and it became a flat cat on the mat. What a prat!

I love rhymes, don't you know? And jokes. And jokes that rhyme. Dad says I have funny bones inherited from him. That does sound pretty awful.

Once they like you

Dad likes playing jokes on Mum and me, but Mum can't stand them. I think it's ever since he put a spider in her shoe. As she went to put them on, he smashed a cream pie into her face and then threw her shoe in the fire.

Dad was still learning about pranks at the time and wasn't very good at them.

Asking for help

Dad has annoyed me and buried my copper jewellery somewhere deep in and around Homesteads. Do you think you can help find it? It means a lot to me and also keeps werewolves at bay. You need a dog and a shovel, but a good one! Find it for me, and I promise to love you lots and lots and not ever pour custard down your pants. And maybe even if you are wearing them.

When it is done

You found it! I would give you a hundred kisses if your face didn't look like a melted candy squirrel!

This necklace means a lot to me. It was given to me by my grandma Nora. She loved jokes too. She died trying to make us laugh by sledging down a hill in an offering bowl after drinking the last of our summer wine. It was a foggy day, and sadly the hill stopped and became a cliff, and over she shot.

I remember the last thing she said like it was yesterday - "Weeeehoooooaaaggghhh! She was so batty.