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Monthly Archives: July 2024
Reading The Valley of Adventure to Brodie
After we finished Castle he suggested going back to the Famous Five, but changed his mind. He wanted to know if any of the other books on my shelves were adventurous. I suggested Valley, he wanted something different. He asked … Continue reading
Letters to Enid part 53: From volume 3 issue 15
Previous letters pages can be found here. Letters page from Volume 3, issue 15. July 20th – August 2nd, 1955. OUR LETTER PAGE A letter from Dianne Patten, Walsall, Staffs. Dear Enid Blyton, I wonder if this is a record … Continue reading
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Tagged Enid Blyton's Magazine, Letters page, Letters to Enid from volume 3
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Monday #589
This is late going up as I just couldn’t decide what to write this week. I don’t like doing the same things week after week somehow, yet all the other ideas I have are things that will take longer than … Continue reading
Reading The Castle of Adventure to Brodie
We have read 2o of the 21 Famous Five books so far. When Brodie asked for the next one at bedtime I said This is the very last one, ever Immediately he said he wanted to make it last, so … Continue reading
Enid Blyton references in other works of fiction, part 4
I knew this would happen – a matter of hours after part 3 went up I found another reference! But it has taken me over five months to collect enough to create a whole new post. Tilly and the Map … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna James, Beth O'Leary, Jenny Colgan, Salley Vickers, Stephanie Butland
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Monday #588
I was away on holiday last week, which is why there were no posts! Came back to some freshly ripe strawberries, massively grown potato plants and still growing sunflower stems (though they had flopped over and needed propping up.) Our … Continue reading
Letters to Enid part 52: From volume 3 issue 14
Previous letters pages can be found here. Letters page from Volume 3, issue 14. July 6th – 19th, 1955. OUR LETTER PAGE (I have chosen three letters from overseas this time so that our far-away readers may know that they … Continue reading
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Tagged Enid Blyton's Magazine, Letters page, Letters to Enid from volume 3
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June 2024 round up
That’s us halfway through 2024 already! What I read I finished 19 books in June which takes me to 39 ahead of schedule. I doubt I can keep up the pace, but if I did… having read 88 books in … Continue reading
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Tagged Doing, June, Monthly round up, Reading, Round Up, Watching
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Monday #586
First post of July! The weather continues to be Not Very Good, with plenty of rain and wind and not all that much sunshine. Our strawberries are doing well, though, and our potatoes have done a lot of growing so … Continue reading
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