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Author Archives: Fiona
Reading the Famous Five to Brodie part 6
We have been making our way pretty quickly through the series, two chapters a night at least five nights a week really adds up! These three books were read between January 10th and February 16th of this year. Five Have … Continue reading
April 2024 round up
It feels like ages since I wrote the February round up – but we are over a week into April I suppose. What I read What I have read: Five Go to Billycock Hill Witches & Words (Library Witch Mystery … Continue reading
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Tagged April, Doing, Monthly round up, Reading, Round Up, Watching
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Monday #577
I’m having a hard time believing it’s almost May, mostly because it’s STILL chilly. The heating is still on at home, the cosy leggings and coats are still in use. It has been a little warmer now and again when … Continue reading
Reading the Famous Five to Brodie part 5
Out of interest I checked the dates and we read these three Famous Fives between November 29 and January 9. Five Get Into Trouble Naturally Brodie demanded the next Famous Five the night after we finished the last one. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Five Fall Into Adventure, Five Get Into Trouble, Five on a Hike Together
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Letters to Enid part 47: From volume 3 issue 9
Previous letters pages can be found here. Letters page from Volume 3, issue 9. April 27th – May 10th, 1955. OUR LETTER PAGE A letter from Busy Bee Janet Orton, Sheffield. Dear Enid Blyton, This afternoon we held our … Continue reading
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Tagged Enid Blyton's Magazine, Letters page, Letters to Enid from volume 3
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Monday #576
The audiobook I’ve just finished listening to had two Enid Blyton references in it, not unusual, but the strange thing is that it’s a book I’ve read before yet I hadn’t made a note of it. I have this time, … Continue reading
Letters to Enid part 46: From volume 3 issue 8
Previous letters pages can be found here. Letters page from Volume 3, issue 8. April 13th-26th, 1955. OUR LETTER PAGE A letter from Hugh Morris, Aylsham, Norfolk. Dear Enid Blyton, In the holidays and on Saturdays, I go round with … Continue reading
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Tagged Enid Blyton's Magazine, Letters page, Letters to Enid from volume 3
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Monday #575
Apart from going to work I have barely left the house in the past weeks due to a certain spotty little boy. We did get out at the weekend for a walk in the woods, though, where we experienced sun, … Continue reading
Rating the Famous Five titles part 2
Continuing now with the remaining half of the books. Part one can be found here. Five Have a Wonderful Time Again, this could literally apply to all 21 books – probably why it is one of the titles I always … Continue reading
March 2024 round up
It feels like ages since I wrote the February round up – but we are over a week into April I suppose. What I read What I have read: How to Date Your Dragon (Mystic Bayou #1) – Molly Harper … Continue reading
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Tagged Doing, March, Monthly round up, Reading, Round Up, Watching
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Monday #574
I’m back after our few days away – where we had mixed weather. One day of clouds and intermittent rain, one day of constant rain, one day which started out sunny and warm (no coats needed!) then became windy and … Continue reading
Rating the Famous Five titles
A recent comment on the blog has inadvertently inspired this post. A regular reader pointed out that I had written Five Have a Wonderful Time when I actually meant Five Fall Into Adventure. It wasn’t that I had confused the … Continue reading
Monday #572
I nearly decided to have a week off from blogging this week, as I have come down with that feels like my hundredth lurgy of 2024. (It’s probably only the fourth or fifth, but it is only March!) However I … Continue reading
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Tagged March, Monday, Sue Welford, The Adventures with George and Timmy
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Fan fic Friday: Bill and Allie’s great adventure chapter 5
Parts one, two, three and four for anyone who needs to catch up. Jack nudged Philip sharply in the side, careful not to let Dinah see what he was doing, then made a show of scratching the side of his … Continue reading
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Tagged Aunt Allie, Bill and Allie's Great Adventure, Bill Cunningham
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Reading the Famous Five to Brodie part 4
While in real-time we are on to Five on a Secret Trail, in blog-time it’s time for what Brodie said about books 6 & 7. Five on Kirrin Island Again We went straight onto this book the night after finishing … Continue reading
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Tagged Five Go Off to Camp, Five on Kirrin Island Again, The Famous Five
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Monday #571
I briefly looked for something non-weather related to say this week but it’s difficult to find something Blytonian-related that isn’t already going into one of my upcoming posts. So I’ll tell you that it’s actually sunny right now. Not only … Continue reading
Fan fic Friday: Bill and Allie’s Great Adventure chapter 4
In case you missed them: Chapter one Chapter two Chapter three It was a short and simple ceremony, but Bill wasn’t sure he would remember all of it. His hand shook slightly as he guided the ring onto Allie’s finger, … Continue reading
Reading the Famous Five to Brodie part 3
Part one covered Five On a Treasure Island, and then part two was Five Go Adventuring Again and Five Run Away Together. Five Go to Smuggler’s Top This is, of course, my absolute favourite so I was really really hoping … Continue reading
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Tagged Five Go Off in a Caravan, Five Go to Smuggler's Top, The Famous Five
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Monday #570
Halfway between meteorological spring and astronomical spring and… it’s still cold! (Mind you, if I didn’t have the weather to complain about I’m not sure what I’d find to say every Monday.) Things I am looking forward to in spring: … Continue reading