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Letters page from Volume 3, issue 15.
July 20th – August 2nd, 1955.

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LETTER PAGE

A letter from Dianne Patten, Walsall, Staffs.
Dear Enid Blyton,
I wonder if this is a record – I have found 39 four-leaved clovers, two five-leaved, and one six-leaved. Twenty-two were found in our garden and the rest on a walk that I went with Mother and Father, I have enclosed one for you and I hope it brings you good luck. Lots of love from,
Dianne Patten.

(I think you really must hold the record, Dianne – I have never heard of anyone finding so many lucky clover-leaves before. What a lucky garden you must have! Thank you for the magnificent four-leaved clover you sent me – the biggest I have ever seen.)

A letter from Rosemary Jenkins and Janet Knapman, Plymouth.
Dear Queen Bee,
In our Busy Bees News this month we read about the Mobile Dispensary Caravan coming to Plymouth. We have both wanted to inspect a P.D.S.A. caravan for a long time. The man in charge was very nice and showed us round. We thought it was lovely and enjoyed our visit very much. Before we left we gave a gift of three shillings and sixpence, which we had saved up from running errands for people. We are both Busy Bees and think it is a very interesting Club.
Yours sincerely, Rosemary Jenkins and Janet Knapman.

(I am so glad that you two Busy Bees managed to inspect one of our P.D.S.A. vans. I wonder when I shall have a letter from someone who has inspected our own Busy Bee Van!)

A letter from Ruth Clare, Newport Pagnell, Bucks.
Dear Enid Blyton,
I am writing to tell you about the wrens in our garden. Last year they built a nest in a very tiny hole in the trunk of one of our trees. The mother laid five eggs which all hatched out, and she was kept busy feeding the youngsters. One day they all flew past me and fluttered down to the ground, and the mother gathered them together. At night she took them all back into the nest, brought them out next morning into some brushwood nearby and took them back again that night. I have never heard of a wren doing this before.
With best wishes from
Ruth Clare.

(What an interesting letter, Ruth ! You must have loved watching the little wren-family.)

How is it that I have NEVER found a four-leafed clover? OK, so I haven’t exactly spent hours hunting for one but honestly I have often wondered if they’re a myth as I’ve never seen one. And yet, here’s Dianne finding 22 in her garden alone? There was a letter about  finding a four-leafed clover back in issue 13 too, so I’ll hold off on calling them a conspiracy theory just yet.

I thought that Queen Bee was an odd way to start a letter, but it’s probably not if you do call yourself the Queen of the Busy Bees!

I’ll have to keep a look-out for wrens now as I’m not sure I’ve seen one of those, either. (Perhaps THEY’RE the conspiracy theory?). They are, apparently, the most common breeding bird in Britain with 8.5 million breeding pairs in the UK. However they are very small, and it also says that they are scarcer in northern England and Scotland, which might explain it.