The pranks I played on my brothers and why it didn't work

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The pranks I played on my brothers and why it didn't work


30.03.2017
On our garden bench under the oak tree

I'm Jennifer Wright. I'm ten years old and I have a ginger cat called Winkie. My brothers all have boring pets like rats and lizards and grasshoppers. They bully Winkie and often kick her. When I protest, they don't listen. That's the problem with being the youngest in the family. No one ever listens to you. Well, except for Winkie.
I'm planning to build a treehouse in our big oak tree at the end of our garden. This week I've been looking for scraps of wood. I have already found some old rope for a ladder.
I'm going to have a basket that I can lower - a cat lift for Winkie. I hope she'll like it because I don't think I will be able to climb the ladder with her under my arm. Unfortunately, she doesn't like heights. I brought her onto the London Eye the other day and she miowed like crazy and tried to escape.

31.03.2017
In my room, the attic

I have just had an idea. A very good idea, in my opinion. Tomorrow is April fools day and I want to repay my brothers for all the things they have done to me and Winkie. I'm going to do a load of pranks and set it all up in their bedrooms so that when they are tired and ready to go to bed, they get given a horrible fright!! 
I just can't wait! Furthermore, if I get told off, I can just remind mum and dad that it is April fools day and that you are meant to do pranks! Its such a brilliant idea (though I say so myself) !
I'm going to do as many pranks as I can. Now let's see... We'll have:
  1. A bucket of water balanced on the top of the door
  2. Knots in their trouser legs
  3. Frozen underwear (I'll soak them in water then keep it in the freezer overnight)
  4. A cup of oil balanced on the door handle (so that when they turn the handle, oil will spill all over the floor)
  5. Cling film wrapped across the toilet seat (so the um.. mess.. won't be able to go down the toilet but sit in a puddle in the cling film at the top)
  6. Give the rats, lizards and grasshoppers sleeping pills so my brothers think they're dead.
  7. Put marbles in their pillow cases
  8. Place water-filled balloons in between the mattress and sheet so that when they get into bed they pop and they have to change the bedclothes and put the mattress out to dry
  9. Dig up worms from the garden and put them in their books so they fall onto their laps when they open the book.

Hmm... That's all I can think of now but hopefully I'll think of more by tomorrow. I want as many pranks as I can get.
Hey, wait a minute, what's that noise? Aaahhhhhh! Get out of there, James! How dare you hide under my bed! You get out from under there now! I SAID NOW!!! 
Huh? What's that? A walkie talkie? Oh no! A trick! Ggrrr... And its not even April fools day...

40.03.2017
I'm setting up the pranks at eight o'clock. That's two hours from now. Till then I'm going to be extra nice. Maybe give a bit of my chocolate to my brothers so they don't suspect I'm up to something...
Oh, and I've thought of two more pranks:

  1. If they need to have a bath before bed, drip some red food colouring into the baths before filled up.
  2. Smash some iceblocks into small chunks and place them where you know someone will soon step (it looks like broken glass - but be careful; before long the ice blocks will melt)

My brothers played three more pranks on me yesterday, after the walkie talkie trick. Maybe they lost track of the time and thought it was the first of April yesterday!! That would be funny. 
Right, I'd better get the pranks ready.

42.03.2017
In the cupboard under the stairs



Something terrible happened yesterday. I got the days wrong. And I expect you can guess what happened. It was awful - I gave the rats a bit too much sleeping powder and they actually did die. My mother brought a big tray of delicate and very expensive China teacups into my brother's room and when the bucket of water fell down, it smashed the teacups into a million pieces. My, how she screamed! Most of the other pranks didn't work and the ones that did, by then mother and my brothers had all had enough. So that's why I'm locked in the cupboard for the night with only bread and water.


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