As much as I enjoy the sunshine we haven’t had any rain for weeks and it’s starting to feel weird. Plus there are now low water level warnings across the country. One of those rare times I’m actually hoping for rain, then.

Illustrations and artwork by Eileen Soper

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The New Famous Five part 2

The other week I was saying something about parking at the beach probably not being so busy on weekdays even in the school holidays.

Brodie, as always, was earwigging.

“Mummy! You can’t say that! That’s the password! You’re giving away the password!”

We have recently read The Secret Seven where weekdays was one of the passwords. The other one was Wenceslas which I’m a lot less likely to be saying at this time of year. But I wonder what other everyday phrases I’m going to be banned from saying once we read more of the Secret Sevens?