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Poppy sat curled up on her bed with her drawing pad resting on her knees. She’d been working on different designs for ages, but she hadn’t come up with anything she really liked yet. She’d done some really gorgeous drawings for her first idea, which was based on the canal boat that she and the others had ridden on at the end of their big canal clean-up weekend. She’d thought that they could build half a canal boat sticking out of the school wall, and use it for sitting on, with loads of pots and tubs for flowers. But that didn’t really solve the problem of the weird L-shaped plot, and it was more about the building than the plants, which she guessed wouldn’t be what the judges were looking for.
Poppy flicked through her drawings, frowning a little. It was nice that the design showed the school was quite close to the canal though. Mr Finlay had
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