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Author Archives: Fiona
Letters to Enid part 37: From volume 2 issue 25
Previous letters pages can be found here. Letters page from Volume 2, issue 25. December 8th – 21st, 1954. OUR LETTER PAGE A letter from Gwendolyn Attoe, Hellesdon, Norwich. Dear Enid Blyton, My brother is only six years old, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Enid Blyton's Magazine, Letters page, Letters to Enid from volume 2
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Monday #542
Welcome to your weekly dose of me being shocked at the passage of time, and complaining about the weather. It is the end of August already. How? The weather has not improved and now I think we can safely say … Continue reading
The Secret Island part 2: Planning to run away
Last time I wrote an entire post about how awful Aunt Harriet and Uncle Henry are. But now on to happier things! Deciding to run away As is often the case in real life a careless, throwaway remark turns into … Continue reading
Letters to Enid part 36: From volume 2 issue 24
Previous letters pages can be found here. Letters page from Volume 2, issue 24. November 24th – December 7th, 1954. OUR LETTER PAGE 1. A letter from Pauline Dove, Pickering, York. Dear Enid Blyton, I am sending the enclosed 5s. … Continue reading
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Monday #541
Guilty admission of the week – I wrote part one of my Secret Island review having only read about three pages, plus flicking through to check a few details. I will have to get reading this week as I don’t … Continue reading
The Secret Island part 1: The evil aunt and uncle
As I have noted before, for an Enid Blyton blogger I don’t actually read as many Enid Blyton books as you might expect. In turn that means that I haven’t review as many as I could. Last week as I … Continue reading
Letters to Enid part 35: From volume 2 issue 23
Previous letters pages can be found here. Letters page from Volume 2, issue 23. November 10th – 23rd, 1954. OUR LETTER PAGE 1. A letter from Elizabeth Stronach, Delgany, Ireland. Dear Enid Blyton, Here is some money we saved up … Continue reading
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Monday #540
School goes back tomorrow! The past six weeks have just flown by. Letters to Enid part 34 and The Secret Island It must be fun to live in a house That runs on wheels all the day; And when you’re … Continue reading
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Tagged August, Ethel Everett, Monday, My Caravan, Silver and Gold
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126 years of Blyton
Enid Blyton was born 126 years ago today! In honour of that I thought I would make a list of 126 great moments from her books. These are in no particular order, in fact I looked up a way to … Continue reading
July 2023 round up
July has been fairly miserable weather-wise, we’ve hardly had any days without rain! But we are the intrepid-ish kind, so armed with waterproofs and umbrellas we get out and about anyway. What I have read Not as much as I … Continue reading
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Tagged Doing, July, Monthly round up, Reading, Round Up, Watching
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Monday #539
Brodie turned six at the weekend (where does the time go??) and we have been reading Five on a Treasure Island for the past few bedtimes. He is currently convinced that the Five will find the gold on the wreck … Continue reading
Silver and Gold
I treated myself to a new book the other week – Silver and Gold which is a collection of 30 poems. First published in 1925 it was then released again in 1927 in a new edition. I have a slightly … Continue reading
Letters to Enid part 34: From volume 2 issue 22
Previous letters pages can be found here. Letters page from Volume 2, issue 22. October 27th – November 9th, 1954. OUR LETTER PAGE A letter from Jennifer Goleby, Eye, Suffolk. Dear Miss Blyton, I am sending you a lavender stick … Continue reading
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Monday #538
July is almost over already, and unfortunately it has been a bit of a wash-out weather-wise. Good for the river levels, not so good for getting out and doing things. We did some sheltering from rain in libraries this week … Continue reading
Worst of Blyton at the library
Way back in 2016 I had just started working in the library (can’t believe I’ve been there seven years already!) I searched the catalogue to see what we had in the way of Blytons and I compiled a list of … Continue reading
Monday #537
It’s Monday night, it’s 11 o’clock, this is Top of the Pops the post I should have written last night and posted this morning. School holidays are still in full swing, we have been visiting the libraries to collect stamps … Continue reading
Letters to Enid part 33: From volume 2 issue 21
Previous letters pages can be found here. Letters page from Volume 2, issue 21. October 13th-26th, 1954. OUR LETTER PAGE A letter from Helen Chamberlain, Harborne. Dear Miss Blyton, We hope you will like this booklet we have written for … Continue reading
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Monday #536
I was away on holiday last week – hence the lack of posting. I saw a LOT of puffins but sadly they were all on mugs, postcards, cushions and so on. I managed to refrain from buying any of them, … Continue reading
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