For Josephine Lois Thompson and Charlotte Josephine Hayes big love
One I have started this journal in the hope that something interesting and supernatural will happen to me but I fear this is unlikely I am not an orphan and I do not live in a cupboard under the staircase We do have a staircase cupboard it is full of gumboots and old newspapers but I don’t live in it and I have parents two of them Alive And they both love me A lot This is good but annoying as it is usually unloved orphans that have all the magical luck Mum actually gave me a cushion with You are so loved written on it I was like what is this I wanted the one with the black leafless tree lithograph on it It looks dark and 7
mysterious To be dark and mysterious is one of my lifelong goals If passing inhabitants of an alternate magical world see the You are so loved cushion on my bed they will keep walking When my dad comes home from business trips he tries to read to me books like Matilda best book ever but I am getting a bit old for it and I point kindly to my hardback series of Harry Potter with the ADULT covers so he will understand I am quite literate and stuff I also have two sisters and tragically one brother None of us can guess which one is Mum’s favourite because she loves all of us so much even Pig Boy slash the male sibling Annoying MUCH It’s a love festival at our house We range in age from twenty-four to eleven with me being the youngest I am the fourth child of an only child named John and a third adopted child named Letty who has no idea about her birth family which I must say does give me hope in the dark-and-mysterious department If I were Mum I would really want to know that sort of thing She could be royal or something My mum is 8
