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Monthly Archives: June 2015
Last Monday in June
Here we are at the end of another month, and in fact we’ve had a smashing week here at the blog! Our best ever day happened on the 25th June, when a Spanish food blog El Comidista shared a link to … Continue reading
Famous Five 90s Style: Five Go Off to Camp
Five Go Off to Camp is one of my favourite adaptations of the books. Overall it doesn’t leave too much out and the acting is very good. There is the fact that Jock is probably older than I would have … Continue reading
Posted in Blyton on TV
Tagged 90s Famous Five TV Series, Jemima Rooper, Jock, Laura Petela, Marco Williamson, Mr Luffy, Paul Child, The Famous Five
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The Mountain of Adventure reviewed by Chris
This is the second of my reviews of my top three in the Adventure series. At number three was Castle and here I discuss my number two – The Mountain of Adventure. As before, I won’t summarise the plot in detail … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews
Tagged The Adventure Series, The Mountain of Adventure, Written by Chris
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Monday
June is racing away from us now although often it seems that summer is yet to arrive. Stef’s back home again after spending the week up in Scotland with me, so there will be plenty of photos to show you … Continue reading
The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage
As you may know, I’m not very good at bringing you the blogs I promise, but this week I have been super good, even though I’ve been on holiday with Fiona, and re-read the first Five Find-Outers book The Mystery of … Continue reading
The Island of Adventure – How has Blyton’s original text fared in a modern edition? part 10
I managed to get through three chapters this week, 19, 20 and 21. Earlier chapters are here, in posts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine. My copy of the book is an 8th impression from 1955 … Continue reading
Posted in Updating Blyton's Books
Tagged The Adventure Series, The Island of Adventure, Updated Text
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Literary Love Letters: Dear Enid Blyton, From Samantha Tonge – Reblogged from Novelicious
I’ve had this bookmarked for a while, but haven’t needed to use it as we’ve had plenty of material from contributors lately. Rather than having Chris’ Adventure Series posts back to back we thought we’d break things up a little … Continue reading
Mid-month Monday
Hello everyone, we’re half way through the month of June today because we have five Mondays in the month. This week I’m staying with Fiona in Scotland so we’re working on making sure we keep each other on track for … Continue reading
The Famous Five Card Game played by Fiona
I didn’t get around to listening to an audio drama for the blog this week (I think that was what I was meant to have done, at least!) so as Stef has arrived in Dundee tonight we decided to play … Continue reading
The Twinniest Twins: The O’Sullivan Twins from St Clare’s
This week’s Twinniest twins is all about the O’Sullivan twins from the St Clare’s series. They are the second lot of female twins we’ve looked at, but the first set of identical girl twins. The O’Sullivan twins, Isabel and Pat … Continue reading
Posted in Characters
Tagged Pat and Isabel, St Clare's, The O'Sullivan Twins, The Twinniest Twins, The Twins at St Clare's, Twins
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The Castle of Adventure reviewed by Chris
Having recently reviewed my top three ‘Famous Fives’, I’m now beginning a series on my top three of the ‘Adventure’ series, of which the first, at number three in my ranking, is The Castle of Adventure. The series are very … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews
Tagged The Adventure Series, The Castle of Adventure, Written by Chris
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Just Another Manic Monday
Here we are again, another Monday, and another manic one for me as I have to work when I don’t usually. At the end of this week, I also get the joy of going up to Bonnie Scotland to see … Continue reading
An Evening of June – A poem by Enid Blyton
Today I bring you another of Blyton’s poems from The Enid Blyton Poetry Book called An Evening of June, which is somewhat appropriate for we have just entered the month of June. I hope you enjoy it! Slowly the sun … Continue reading
My sixteenth Noddy book: You’re a Good Friend, Noddy!
So we’re back to #16 in the series this week, for my 16th review. I was supposed to do this one last time but got the order wrong! This is a strange little story, I have to say. We begin … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews
Tagged Noddy, Ron Weasley, Wizards, You're a Good Friend Noddy!
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The Wishing Chair Again reviewed by Laura
Out of the two Wishing Chair books I owned as a child, I always preferred the second – The Wishing Chair Again (published in 1950) – because the adventures were longer and seemed more interesting. It also introduced the character … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews
Tagged The Wishing Chair, The Wishing Chair Again, Written by Laura
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First Monday of June
Wow, where has the year gone? It will be summer before we know it! We’ve had a great week on the blog, and smashed our best daily views record too. This is what our stats page looked like that night. … Continue reading
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