Author Archives: Fiona

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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Monday #636

Posted on June 30, 2025 by Fiona

I took last week off as I realised it was the last week of term and it was my last chance for peace during the day for SEVEN WEEKS. Now it’s the first week of these really long holidays, so … Continue reading →

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Blyton references in non-fiction books

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Fiona

I have finally compiled enough references to make another non-fiction post worthwhile (the first was references in memoirs). That means that shortly after posting this I will undoubtedly find another reference and have to start a third post. Lego Lost … Continue reading →

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Maps in books

Posted on June 19, 2025 by Fiona

Having shared the map Eileen Soper drew of her own garden in a recent post I made the same comment again – about how much I love a map in a book. That got me thinking that I should then … Continue reading →

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Monday #634

Posted on June 16, 2025 by Fiona

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 … Continue reading →

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If you like Blyton: The Challenge of Palores Point by Zöe Billings

Posted on June 15, 2025 by Fiona

Following on from The Mystery of Tully Hall and The Secret of Flittermouse Cliffs, The Challenge of Palores Point is the third book in the Great Friends at Grey Owls series by Zöe Billings. I read this from September to … Continue reading →

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Letters to Enid part 72: from volume 4 issue 9

Posted on June 12, 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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Monday #633

Posted on June 9, 2025 by Fiona

I was reading an un-put-down-able book last night so didn’t get around to doing the Monday post (yes, another Val McDermid but I am seeing her talk later this week, so I’ll probably stop binge-reading her stuff after that. Probably.) but … Continue reading →

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If you like Blyton: Cherry Ames by Helen Wells

Posted on June 8, 2025 by Fiona

I have had two of the Cherry Ames books sitting on my bookshelf for years. I’m not sure how many years exactly, but here they are (sixth and seventh from the right) back in 2019 when I did my series … Continue reading →

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May 2025 round up

Posted on June 4, 2025 by Fiona

What I read I have been reading a lot this month – I am going to see Val McDermid talk soon so I thought I had better read a few more of her books (I’d only read two when I … Continue reading →

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Monday #632

Posted on June 2, 2025 by Fiona

May has been a month of two parts – the first part where it was warm and sunny all the time, and then when it was cloudy and rainy almost all the time. Perhaps June will strike a better balance! … Continue reading →

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Eileen Soper’s artwork

Posted on June 1, 2025 by Fiona

I’ve been promising this for a few weeks and yet I almost never managed it tonight either as my scanner decided it was firmly offline and couldn’t be persuaded otherwise. Luckily I bought a cable for it recently and so … Continue reading →

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