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quite tired. At some point she’d put the light on, but she didn’t quite remember when.
“Is this your garden design?” Her mum sighed. “You sounded very enthusiastic about it at dinner, but I didn’t realise you were planning to finish it tonight.”
“I wasn’t,” Poppy murmured, yawning. “It was just hard to stop, once I got going on it. It’s fun.” She held the sketch book out to her mum a little nervously. Her mum loved being in the garden. It would be awful if she took one look at Poppy’s design and said it was horrible, or that it just wouldn’t work.
“Oh, Poppy, this is really pretty,” her mum said, smiling. “It reminds me of something...”
“Your kitchen tiles,” Poppy said, with another massive yawn.
“Yes! A sort of Moroccan pattern. But it’s based on a medieval garden, I can see that. It’s lovely.”
“There’s a wild flower patch,” Poppy called to her as she went to the bathroom to brush her teeth. “To attract butterflies. And I thought that could be in a butterfly-shaped bit of hedge. That bit took ages, trying to make it look properly like a butterfly. Do you think you can make hedges grow in shapes like that?”
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