A British Diary of a Wimpy Kid featuring Dermot an overweight eleven-year-old. Hilariously funny & insightful. Dermot Milligan's got problems. He's overweight & hooked on donuts. He has a pushy over-achieving mother & a father who spends all his time hiding in the loo. His sisters Ruby & Ella (known as Rubella) attack him relentlessly from the opposite directions of Chav & Goth. & now he's being sent to a nutritionist Doctor Morlock who looks like a Dementor from Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows. This diary is Doc Morlock's idea. Not only does Dermot have to write down how many donuts he eats but also
- & this is the really rubbish part
- he has to talk about HIS FEELINGS! But things are about to get even worse
- he's being separated from his friends & sent to St Michael's a posh school where he just knows he's going to stick out like a sore thumb. A sore thumb with a weight problem.. .


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Dermot Milligan loves donuts. His nickname at school is Donut. But he knows he needs to lose some weight so now he's made a promise to stop eating them. & to make sure he keeps that promise his mum is sending him to the dreaded Camp Fatso during the summer holidays. When he arrives Dermot realises the camp is even more horrible than he had imagined. Fed on a diet of gruel & carrots under the strict control of evil Boss Skinner & his paintball-gun-yielding guards Dermot & his friends are desperate to escape. So together they hatch a cunning plan... ...

Dermot Milligan's got problems. He's overweight & hooked on donuts. His mother has booked him in to see Dr Morlock a nutritionist who looks like a Dementor. The diary is Dr Morlock's idea. Not only does Dermot have to write down how many donuts he eats but also
- & this is the really rubbish part
- His Feelings! This is Dermot's second hilarious adventure featuring his battles against the bullies & hardest of all his beloved donuts. After one term at St Michaels Dermot thinks things can't sink any lower. All his classmates call him Donut his insane PE teacher Mr Fricker despises him the evil Floppy-Haired kid is out to get him.. .and now someone seems to be going to the toilet in inappropriate places around the school. The Head calls in the services of internationally famous poo expert Dr Morlock to help track down the culprit
- & somehow the finger of suspicion is pointed at Dermot. Can he turn detective & find out who's behind the poo
- before his reputation is ruined forever?



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A very special kind of doodle journal
- full of colourful pages & the ultimate accessory
- a gel pen full of bright white ink.

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See how easy it can be to create exciting continuous-line quilting designs
- simply by mastering the art of doodling. In this beginner's
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This follow-up to the best-selling Doodle Stitching" offers fans expanded & updated basics 400+ easy embroidery motifs on the page & on a CD-ROM sealed in the back of the book 17 projects & lots of added inspiration. More than a dozen categories include Alphabet Baby Celebrations Embellishments Space Trees Flowers & Woodland Creatures
- & each section

Includes:: one motif stitched by the author. The motifs on the CD-ROM are in simple black lines so readers can easily manipulate them using their own image-editing software print them out & transfer them onto their substrate of choice using the instructions in the book."


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Everyone loves to doodle whether they mean to or not. When youre on the phone in a meeting or just on your lunch break. Doodle While You Work" helps you to vent this creativity with over 200 inspirational starting points to get your creative juices flowing. For those that would prefer an artistic alternative to Sudoku during their tea break
- " Doodle While You Work" is ideal. Give your doodles some direction & save your work from being covered in unsightly scrawls by completing the unfinished work-themed doodles in the book. This book

Features: complete the muffin-mountain design the new office chair fill the elevator with penguins; & what are the penguins looking at? Let your creative instincts run riot & " Doodle While You Work"."


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Asian-inspired lampshades embellished with flying fish. Canvas sneakers decorated with pink & white swirls. A pretty pillow adorned with a sleeping bunny. All it takes to create these appealing projects
- or add charming embroidered touches in no time at all
- are a few simple stitches some easy techniques & the nearly 30 projects in this book. Begin by learning several styles for outlining filling decorating & applique. Find out about floss fancy threads fabrics & needles. Get the low-down on transferring your very own designs onto every type of fabric. The fresh ideas witty patterns & clever colour illustrations take stitchers from novice to enthusiast in a blink of the eye!

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Throughout six years of conflict beginning 3 September 1939 military manoeuvres bombs & exhortations to greater dedication to the War Effort became the normality for children. For the young this was a time of great excitement. Imagine the thrill of Anderson Shelters built in back gardens concrete blocks & barbed-wire sprouting on beaches soldiers & tanks in the streets the Battle of Britain & those spectacular dogfights the Blitz & masses of shrapnel to collect searchlights lighting up the night sky American servicemen appearing & their inexhaustible supplies of chewing gum! From Dunkirk to D-Day through Doodlebugs to Victory there was hardly a dull moment & remarkably little fear for children as they learned collected & played under these bizarre circumstances. ...

Most parents photograph their children growing up but Doodlemum (Angie Stevens) posts a drawing of her children & their family life on her blog every night (after the kids have gone to sleep). She draws everything from holidays to pets tantrums to camping. All captured in a few key strokes of the pen. Angie Stevenss enthusiasm for drawing developed in childhood & she went on to study illustration at the Unviersity of Westminster. After shis she says came the tsunami of children & marriage but her passion for drawing never left her. After the birth of her third child a bit exhausted sleep-deprived & probably suffering from a bit of post natal depression her husband bought her a collection of Moleskine notebooks & suggested it might help to start drawing again. It did & in 2010 the Doodlemum blog was born. Over 1000 illustrations later Doodlemum is established. This is the book her fans have been asking for
- perfect for them & for those who will fall in love with this tender & funny picture of family life in all its messy glory.
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