Monthly Archives: July 2025

Letters to Enid part 75: From volume 4, issue 12.

Posted on July 30, 2025 by Fiona

Previous letters pages can be found here. Letters page from Volume 4, issue 12. July 4th – July 17th, 1956. OUR LETTER PAGE A letter from Marilyn Bowder, Sunbeam 13688. (Please send me your address.) Dear Enid Blyton, I am … Continue reading →

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Monday #670

Posted on July 28, 2025 by Fiona

July is almost over. That means it’s almost August and Brodie’s 8th birthday. We started Mr Galliano’s Circus last night which he says he DID NOT LIKE – but he was overtired after being away for three nights with his … Continue reading →

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Reading the Circus of Adventure to Brodie

Posted on July 27, 2025 by Fiona

I keep getting further and further behind on these – we read The Circus of Adventure between September 9th and October 9th 2024. At this point I’m not sure how many of his comments I’m going to be able to … Continue reading →

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Pretending to be Jack Trent

Posted on July 23, 2025 by Fiona

Anyone who’s read the adventure series will know what Jack Trent is obsessed with. Birds, photography and adventures, probably in that order! Well, on holiday last week I had my camera of course, and on a walk along the cliffs … Continue reading →

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Monday #639

Posted on July 21, 2025 by Fiona

It was somewhat ambitious of me two weeks ago to aim for two posts, considering I was going off on holiday. The holiday is over (sadly!) so back to business now. Pretending to be Jack Trent and Reading the Circus … Continue reading →

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Letters to Enid part 74: From volume 4, issue 11.

Posted on July 10, 2025 by Fiona

Previous letters pages can be found here. Letters page from Volume 4, issue 11. June 20th – July 3rd, 1956. OUR LETTER PAGE A letter from Eileen Kelley, Kuwait, Persian Gulf. Dear Enid Blyton, I thought you might like to … Continue reading →

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Monday #637

Posted on July 7, 2025 by Fiona

We are firmly into July now and the weather is starting to look better (except from a super heavy downpour this afternoon!). It is supposed to get hotter and sunnier as the week goes on so I will enjoy getting … Continue reading →

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Letters to Enid part 73: From volume 4 issue 10

Posted on July 6, 2025 by Fiona

Previous letters pages can be found here. NB – a warning again for the use of wording that is considered derogatory and offensive in the UK (and potentially elsewhere) today. As I am transcribing these letters exactly as written by … Continue reading →

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June 2025 round up

Posted on July 4, 2025 by Fiona

It’s July already (and it has rained pretty much every day so far) so let’s look back at June. What I read I continued with the Val McDermids at the start of June, then finally took a break once I … Continue reading →

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