I wanted to lead with some sort of exclamation of how can it be 600 weeks since I started this blog? But the maths just isn’t mathing there. It’ll be 12 years in around 4 weeks, so it should be more like Monday #620 today.

We didn’t do Monday posts to begin with. Then for a while we had unnumbered Monday posts. The first numbered one is actually Monday #166, because I counted up how many Mondays/weeks there had been since we started – and I skip numbers if I miss a Monday. So it should match up. But it doesn’t, so I’ve obviously gone wrong somewhere – and that’s after I renumbered dozens of Monday posts, having accidentally misnumbered one and then carried on.

It honestly doesn’t matter, but it IS going to annoy me. I feel like I’ve ranted about this before on a Monday as I’ve probably noticed the discrepancy at another milestone, and I’ll probably keep noticing it unless I get around to fixing it…

Me trying to figure out what went wrong

Letters to Enid part 59

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Rating the Secret Seven titles

Enid Blyton has been deemed worthy of a Folio Society edition of The Enchanted Wood.

Featuring illustrations by Jonathan Burton, an introduction by Michael Morpugo and supposedly The truest text to the original 1939 publication*, the book costs a rather eye-watering £49.95.

It looks as if the other books will be done too, as it refers to the landmark new Folio series. 

I think it’s good that Blyton is being considered a classic and worthy of special editions, but you can generally buy an early, illustrated edition with the original 1939 text, for less than £50.

*It does appear that the children have their original names, but I assume some other changes have still been made.