My big Christmas blogging project gets underway this week. It’s a little early (though perfectly allowable seeing as it’s November), but I anticipate it will take at least the 7 weeks (!!) we have left until Christmas. My similar series about Holiday Stories ran for 12 posts so I will have to be a bit less wordy this time around, or I’ll still be posting Christmas content into February…

Letters to Enid part 44

and

Enid Blyton’s Christmas Stories then and now, part 1

We have reached Five on Kirrin Island Again for bedtime stories, and have read as far as George (with difficulty) leaving Timmy on the island to protect her father. This one is, admittedly, slower to start as we are several chapters in and the only hint of adventure or mystery is a cough and a cigarette end. Brodie actually turned to me after we finished the latest chapter and asked when is the adventure going to begin? (Though the lack of adventure hasn’t stopped him from listening avidly to every word so far).

Of course I know of all the adventure to come – the discovering of the undersea passage, the near-blowing up of Kirrin Island… But I just had to tell him to wait and see what happens next.