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Mum has confirmed her budget for me is £100!

£100!!!

That's more than my ENTIRE wardrobe is worth now, including my school uniform!

This year with exams I am going to be completely different. I am going to make an actual revision plan like Dimple and I am going to stick to it like major dorks do.

How can you revise when Jen is on Skype being pee-funny over the fact that cows are the world's most psychically sensitive animals – that's why they get mutilated in fields by aliens.

Gran thinks Princess may be pregnant and isn't sure who the father is! I have some experience of this – not the pregnant bit – MORE YOUNG PEOPLE BEING BORN NOT KNOWING WHO THIER DAD IS! Well not people – puppies. But they have feelings too.

REVISION PLAN – A PLAN FOR SUCCESS (As Mrs Cob calls it.)

I am sticking to my revision plan today. I have told everyone I am NOT HERE. I've just turned my mobile to silent. I feel sick doing it but IT IS my future. I'm worried about Dance/Drama. It's my most important subject and our play is all about “conflict” – domestic arguments and wars between countries. We're struggling with only having 6 people in it. It's easy to do a performance of a couple arguing but not so easy to represent thousands of men in a battle with big guns.

In our group Dance/Drama rehearsal today Dibbo Hannah dropped the chair that represented conflict. It fell brilliantly and I shouted, “WAR!” Everyone thought this was fantastic and we are going to add it to the entire performance. We have also worked out how to give a feeling of more people. Each of us is going to wear a hat with a face on it during the battle scenes. That will make the stage feel more “alive”.

I have stuck to my revision plan – even Mum came up and said, “I am so proud of you, Hattie. I could never manage to revise!”

There is no way I can fail! I have fully revised everything that it's possible to revise, I think.

Is Mum being so nice to me because she's worried that Keith is making such an effort by paying for me to go over?

Perhaps that's the worst thing I've ever thought.

Perhaps it's true.

No, it's one of the worst things I've ever thought.

Mum just looked at my revision plan and thought it might be “a bit Dance/Drama heavy”. Dear Mum – are you doing my life? No. Please go away.

Just been making my Dance/Drama hat. It's pretty spooky but really good. I look like I have a massive soldier towering over me.

FULL Dance/Drama group rehearsal!

Dibbo Hannah misheard what we said about making a hat with a face on it. She has made a TANK! I think she looks RIDICULOUS! It looks like a really rubbish papier mâché Dalek. Everyone else though agreed with Becca that it added “depth” to the battlefield scene. So it's staying!

I have stuck to my revision timetable today but I spent most of my Dance/Drama time getting really cross about Dibbo Hannah's stupid tank. How can other people think that is good?! Not one person mentioned how REAL my hat soldier looked. I gave him wrinkles and everything! Perhaps I should make something that adds something “more”.

I am making a machine-gun hat.

I can't get a machine gun to work so I've made it into a missile.

Mum couldn't work out what my missile was and said it looked a “bit odd”. Mum, though, hasn't got much of an imagination so you can't really count her opinion.