Halloween is over, and tomorrow is bonfire night, so it’s an acceptable time to start looking towards Christmas! I’ve actually started my shopping already, just need to keep up the momentum so I’m not left doing it all last-minute!

My updated Enid Blyton wishlist

and

Christmas gift guide 2024

While we are lucky to have so many fantastic illustrations across the original editions of Enid Blyton’s books I often find myself wishing that favourite scenes of mine had an illustration, or that something I can’t easily picture was shown. Or that there were more in colour!

The bargua, with its green scales with red-and-yellow spots I’m sure would have looked wonderful in a full colour illustration.

Well, I’ll just have to make do with Brodie’s fabulous effort! (He did a snake word search in an activity book, and there was also a page with partly-drawn snakes to finish and colour, and space to draw your own. So naturally he went for a bargua (but had to check with me to make sure he got the colours right).