Maps in books

and

Blyton references in works of non-fiction

I am paraphrasing like mad here because I didn’t take a note of this at the time!

Unlike, say, the Famous Five who never seemed to learn their lessons. Let’s go into this dark cave at midnight, nothing bad happened last time!

– Val McDermid

Val (as I now call her, having been in the same room as her once), was talking about her love of the Chalet School books. One thing she particularly liked about the series was that the characters grew and developed through the books and if a girl broke a leg in one books she would still be limping a few books later. Which then led to something along the lines of the quote above. I think I have the general message if not the exact wording.

Sometimes I go into caves. But not at midnight…