School goes back tomorrow! The past six weeks have just flown by.

Letters to Enid part 34
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The Secret Island

It must be fun to live in a house
That runs on wheels all the day;
And when you’re tired of standing still,
Just put in the horse and drive over the hill,
Dozens of miles away!
The first paragraph from the poem titled My Caravan, from Silver and Gold. It’s clear that Blyton’s affection for writing about caravans goes way back to 1925 (and possibly earlier). This poem puts me in mind of the Caravan Family in particular, but caravans appeared in various other titles including Five Go Off in a Caravan and the Galliano’s Circus books.

