Simon even admits he accepted a bet to ask out either her or Tina, but chose Tina because there's no way Jan would ever accept. Jayni/Lola and Kenny see her as this trope, especially when she uses her skill in Thai boxing to get their abusive father to leave. When Pearl comes home, Jodie demands to know what's going on because she gets the wrong idea and thinks that they are being romantic.

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They, also, meet other members of the staff: the under matron, Miss Ponsonby (nicknamed "Undie") and the gardener, Jed. Even Evil Has Standards: While "Pinch Face" of Buried Alive isn't really evil, just nasty, he is shown to be shocked by "Prickle Head" threatening to hit Tim in the head with a metal spade!Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. Pearl reassures her that they are only watching badgers and that they haven't invited her, because she can't stay still or silent for more than a few minutes.

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The sisters meet tall, badger-watching Harley, who gets along very well with Pearl, and three little children: Zeph, Dan and Sakura. Soon after, Jed runs over a baby badger, that Harley and Pearl have been watching, and Jodie is disgusted at his indifference. Hetty Feather does this twice: looking for her mother in Hetty Feather, and her father in Emerald Star.Nadine does this to Ellie quite a lot in the Girls series, a standout example being when Ellie points out how stupid it is to trust a guy online and he could be having creepy fantasies about her in a bikini, Nadine retorts that Ellie's just jealous because she's too fat for anybody to imagine her in a bikini - even worse when you consider Ellie struggled with Bulimia in Girls Under Pressure. And Now for Someone Completely Different - Diamond, the fourth in the Hetty Feather series, switches to the perspective of new protagonist Ellen Jane.