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told them all about it – how the canals were used like roads, for carrying stuff from place to place on the boats. They’d had to do one of his projects on it, plotting the course of a family living on their canal boat. It had definitely been one of their teacher’s favourite projects – history and maps together were like his dream come true.
So what else was their area known for, apart from the canal? Poppy frowned. She actually couldn’t think of anything. Millford was about the most averagely boring town ever. She sighed and turned back to a fresh page. Maybe she should try that grand princessy design she remembered from when she was little? All those roses? A Sleeping Beauty garden! Poppy smiled to herself and started to draw. They could paint the side wall of the school so that it looked like a palace; that would be no problem. And then they’d plant lots of climbing roses. Maybe some ivy – that climbed too, didn’t it? Would the budget run to a fountain, even if it didn’t have pink lemonade? And... and... Poppy sighed, even more heavily than before.
It was another pretty picture, but it wasn’t really a garden design. The only plants she’d put in it were loads of roses and some ivy, if ivy was even the plant she thought it was. No one was going to think much
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