I completely failed to post my Hollow Tree House blog yesterday – and in fact when I went to check what had happened later in the day I realised I hadn’t even finished it! (It’s not good to publish posts which still say [Add quotes from book here].)

I will make sure I actually finish it for this week, though.

Hollow Tree House – the reality

and

Cunningham and Petrov: The Mystery of the Missing Children chapter 13

Nora and Peggy were picking the wild strawberries on the island. Certainly the patch Nora had found was a wonderful one. Deep red strawberries glowed everywhere among the pretty leaves, and some of the berries were as big as garden ones.

Wild strawberries were just one of the bounties to be found on the Secret Island. We found wild strawberries yesterday but they were all small ones (that didn’t stop Brodie eating them by the dozen of course!)