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Monthly Archives: March 2017
The Children at Green Meadows part 2
So here is the rest of my review of this book! Previous part can be found here. CHAPTER SIX – A PONY RESCUE IN THE NIGHT The next arrival is a pony called Flash – who pulls the greengrocer’s cart (this … Continue reading
Famous Five for Grown Ups: Five Give up the Booze
I know you’re getting an onslaught of these Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups at the moment, but as they’re quick to read they make a perfect blog to work on. I can pick up the book on a Monday night and … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, Other Authors
Tagged Bruno Vincent, Famous Five for Grown Ups, Five Give up the Booze
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Monday #210
So I’m back from Italy and we have a busy week for you on the blog: Fiona will bring you the second part of her Children at Green Meadows blog, and I’ll be looking at Five Give up the Booze! … Continue reading
My three least favourite Blyton characters
Looking for something to write about this week I browsed older posts and spotted Stef’s post about her least favourite characters, and I decided that would be a fine thing for me to write about too. I didn’t have any ideas … Continue reading
Famous Five for Grown Ups: Five Forget Mother’s Day
Five Forget Mother’s Day – honestly, how could our beloved Famous Five forget the one day a year that we use to celebrate our mothers (not that we shouldn’t celebrate them everyday!)? I got this book to give to my … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, Other Authors
Tagged Bruno Vincent, Famous Five for Grown Ups, Five Forget Mothers Day
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Monday #209
How is it Monday already? I never used to notice Mondays so much when I worked weekends, but now I have weekends off it’s a different matter. I don’t actually have to work until Wednesday this week so perhaps I shouldn’t … Continue reading
The Children at Green Meadows
The title of this book doesn’t give much away, and it could be a story about just about anything. It would probably be classed as one of her ‘family’ books, I have it on the shelf beside The Family at … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews
Tagged Animals, Brownies, Cubs, Girl Guides, Scouting Movement, Scouts, The Children at Green Meadows
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Famous Five 70s Style: Five Run Away Together
As we know, I managed to lose the track of which Famous Five episodes I had reviewed, which is why we have come back to Five Run Away Together. I completely skipped it for some reason! Anyway shall we get on … Continue reading
Monday #208
Once again, the week has gone sailing by and another set of blogs is called for! Fiona is one week closer to having her baby and I’m one week away from my 26th birthday (St Patrick’s day no less)! With … Continue reading
Stef’s February 2017 (and more) round up
Whoops, as you probably gathered we have missed the last couple of round ups. Fiona has done her blog and now it’s my turn. WHAT I HAVE READ IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS February – Looking for Captain Poldark – … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Experiences
Tagged December, Doing, February, January, March, Monthly round up, Reading, Round Up, Watching
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Blyton’s Britain, part 2
Last time I brought you a selection of destinations in London and Buckinghamshire where you could go and be close to our favourite authoress Enid Blyton. This week I’m going to start looking down by the coast, the south west … Continue reading
Monday #207
Proving she is still current Enid Blyton featured in a CBeebies video about female authors, alongside Jacqueline Wilson, Beatrix Potter and Malorie Blackman. I thought it was done this year for World Book Day but it turns out it’s actually … Continue reading
Fiona’s February 2017 (and more) round up
Well this is embarrassing. I was tidying up all the images I have saved on my laptop from various blogs (I know, I know, I should save them in the right place in the first place instead of just dumping … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Experiences
Tagged December, Doing, February, January, Monthly round up, Reading, Round Up, Watching
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Famous Five 70s Style: Five Are Together Again, part 2
The second part of Five Are Together Again, makes for interesting viewing. In this blog I will look at the differences and changes from the novel and as usual we will find out whether the changes are good or bad. … Continue reading
Those Dreadful Children: who was really the most dreadful? continued
I’m back with another very long blog to try to answer the question I set myself! (Previous part here.) THINGS I DIDN’T REALLY CONSIDER AS A CHILD As a child I think I glossed over a lot of the Carletons’ … Continue reading
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