Monthly Archives: May 2024

Reading the Famous Five to Brodie part 8

Posted on May 31, 2024 by Fiona

After our brief detour to the Adventure series we returned to back to back Famous Five. (There have only been about 20 days where I have not read an Enid Blyton book this year and most of them are the … Continue reading →

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Letters to Enid part 49: From volume 3 issue 11

Posted on May 29, 2024 by Fiona

Previous letters pages can be found here. Letters page from Volume 3, issue 11. May 25th – June 7th, 1955. OUR LETTER PAGE A letter from Dorothea Hill, Nr. Sleaford, Lincs. Dear Enid Blyton, I am one of your magazine … Continue reading →

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Monday #581

Posted on May 27, 2024 by Fiona

Having been talking about putting a raised bed in the garden and growing some chives and other easy herbs, it was a coincidence that we then got offered some strawberry plants from my cousin. I have now ordered a raised … Continue reading →

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Reading the Adventure Series to Brodie

Posted on May 24, 2024 by Fiona

Having worried (many times over) what we would read when we ran out of Famous Five books, Brodie had heard me suggest the Adventure Series a few times. He had always said no, he wouldn’t like them, only the Famous … Continue reading →

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Malory Towers on TV series three – Episodes one and two

Posted on May 22, 2024 by Fiona

I’m late to the party but I’ve finally started watching series 3 of Malory Towers. I will try to make this more than a lengthy summary of what happens in the first two episodes but I am promising nothing. Episode … Continue reading →

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Monday #580

Posted on May 20, 2024 by Fiona

It has been a bit of a rollercoaster weekend for us – it started out with a leaking shower/bath affecting the flat below us, moved on to us finding a lost cockatiel which Brodie named Kiki, and then ended up … Continue reading →

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Reading the Famous Five to Brodie part 7

Posted on May 18, 2024 by Fiona

We have continued to get through the Famous Five books very quickly. We read Plenty of Fun over the last two weeks of February, and then Secret Trail lasted us just 10 days in mid March. Five Have Plenty of … Continue reading →

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Letters to Enid part 48: From volume 3 issue 10

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Fiona

Previous letters pages can be found here. Letters page from Volume 3, issue 10. May 11th – 24th, 1955. OUR LETTER PAGE A letter from Nicola Gawn, Bembridge. Dear Miss Blyton, My friend and I have a greenhouse in which … Continue reading →

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Monday #579

Posted on May 13, 2024 by Fiona

I have the update you have all been waiting for! The sun finally came out! It was hot! We made it to the beach and even into the water! Which got me thinking about bathing. I was just paddling but Brodie lay … Continue reading →

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Reading the Famous Five to Brodie part 6

Posted on May 4, 2024 by Fiona

We have been making our way pretty quickly through the series, two chapters a night at least five nights a week really adds up! These three books were read between January 10th and February 16th of this year. Five Have … Continue reading →

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April 2024 round up

Posted on May 2, 2024 by Fiona

It feels like ages since I wrote the February round up – but we are over a week into April I suppose. What I read What I have read: Five Go to Billycock Hill Witches & Words (Library Witch Mystery … Continue reading →

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