I see the Monday number creep up every week (or occasionally every other week when I miss one) but I don’t really pay attention other than making sure the last digit is one higher. Somehow I noticed it this week though and had to do some quick mental maths as 555 seems a ridiculously high number. But the blog has in fact been going over 10 years, 11 in fact, we just didn’t do Monday posts for the first while.

In a coincidence, tomorrow is will mark 55 years since Blyton’s death. I still find it incredible how relevant and loved she is after all that time, and she is still being discovered and enjoyed by children more than half a century after she died.

If I was the superstitious kind I’d be looking for more 5s – but would they be lucky or unlucky, who knows.

Enid Blyton Christmas gift guide 2023

and

Enid Blyton’s Christmas Stories then and now, part 4

I wrote this in 2020, but I never did get around to posting the answers list. There are – according to a comment I made in January 2021 – 22 songs to find. I can’t for the life of me find the list I made when I wrote this, but I’ve managed to identify 19 songs so far… can you do better?

Spot the Famous Five’s favourite Christmas songs

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!