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Letters to Enid part 53: From volume 3 issue 15

Posted on July 24, 2024 by Fiona

Previous letters pages can be found here. Letters page from Volume 3, issue 15. July 20th – August 2nd, 1955. OUR LETTER PAGE A letter from Dianne Patten, Walsall, Staffs. Dear Enid Blyton, I wonder if this is a record … Continue reading →

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Monday #589

Posted on July 22, 2024 by Fiona

This is late going up as I just couldn’t decide what to write this week. I don’t like doing the same things week after week somehow, yet all the other ideas I have are things that will take longer than … Continue reading →

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Reading The Castle of Adventure to Brodie

Posted on July 20, 2024 by Fiona

We have read 2o of the 21 Famous Five books so far. When Brodie asked for the next one at bedtime I said This is the very last one, ever Immediately he said he wanted to make it last, so … Continue reading →

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Enid Blyton references in other works of fiction, part 4

Posted on July 17, 2024 by Fiona

I knew this would happen – a matter of hours after part 3 went up I found another reference! But it has taken me over five months to collect enough to create a whole new post. Tilly and the Map … Continue reading →

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Monday #588

Posted on July 15, 2024 by Fiona

I was away on holiday last week, which is why there were no posts! Came back to some freshly ripe strawberries, massively grown potato plants and still growing sunflower stems (though they had flopped over and needed propping up.) Our … Continue reading →

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Letters to Enid part 52: From volume 3 issue 14

Posted on July 6, 2024 by Fiona

Previous letters pages can be found here. Letters page from Volume 3, issue 14. July 6th – 19th, 1955. OUR LETTER PAGE  (I have chosen three letters from overseas this time so that our far-away readers may know that they … Continue reading →

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June 2024 round up

Posted on July 4, 2024 by Fiona

That’s us halfway through 2024 already! What I read I finished 19 books in June which takes me to 39 ahead of schedule. I doubt I can keep up the pace, but if I did… having read 88 books in … Continue reading →

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Monday #586

Posted on July 1, 2024 by Fiona

First post of July! The weather continues to be Not Very Good, with plenty of rain and wind and not all that much sunshine. Our strawberries are doing well, though, and our potatoes have done a lot of growing so … Continue reading →

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Reading the Famous Five to Brodie, part 9

Posted on June 29, 2024 by Fiona

These two books we read from April 17 to May 8. That’s only 11 days a book, which is not bad considering I can’t read t him every night due to my working pattern. Five on Finniston Farm We began … Continue reading →

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Letters to Enid part 51: From volume 3 issue 13

Posted on June 26, 2024 by Fiona

Previous letters pages can be found here. Letters page from Volume 3, issue 13. June 22nd – July 5th, 1955. OUR LETTER PAGE A letter from Madeleine Edward, Bieldside, Aberdeenshire. Dear Enid Blyton, In the summer we play a game … Continue reading →

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Monday #585

Posted on June 24, 2024 by Fiona

It’s almost the end of June and I am tentatively going to say that summer has actually arrived, at least, for the moment! A few of our strawberries have ripened (and been eaten) and our potatoes have finally started peeking … Continue reading →

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Malory Towers on TV series three – Episodes five and six

Posted on June 21, 2024 by Fiona

Now that Miss Johnson is the (acting) head mistress, I really hope that they start to reveal what she is up to. The New Headmistress What I liked Well, let’s just say that Miss Johnson doesn’t hang around! My first … Continue reading →

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Letters to Enid part 50: From volume 3 issue 12

Posted on June 19, 2024 by Fiona

Previous letters pages can be found here. Letters page from Volume 3, issue 12. June 8th – 21st, 1955. OUR LETTER PAGE A letter from Susan York, Chilwell, Notts. Dear Enid Blyton, I must tell you of a black and … Continue reading →

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Monday #584

Posted on June 17, 2024 by Fiona

Last week rather ran away from me – I had watched the next two episodes of Malory Towers and made (copious) notes in advance, but ran out of time to turn them into a (semi) coherent review with screen shots. … Continue reading →

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The Favourite Enid Blyton books, revealed

Posted on June 14, 2024 by Fiona

Having recorded the results of people’s favourite Enid Blyton book or series for about a week, I now have 1,278 results and figured that was enough to be going on with! We are still getting a lot of requests so … Continue reading →

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Monday #583

Posted on June 10, 2024 by Fiona

There are green strawberries on our plants now, and our potatoes have been planted. The one good thing about all the rain we’ve been having is it has meant we haven’t had to go out and water them much. (It’s … Continue reading →

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Malory Towers on TV Series three – Episodes three and four

Posted on June 7, 2024 by Fiona

Episodes one and two had some confusing behaviour from Miss Johnson, so let’s see what she gets up to in episodes three and four! The Surprise Picnic We already had an episode titled The Midnight Feast in series one, so … Continue reading →

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May 2024 round up

Posted on June 6, 2024 by Fiona

We are into June now – that means it’s nearly summer! What I read May’s reads took me to 69 books, which is something like 28 books ahead on my goal of 100! I think I’ll have to increase my … Continue reading →

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Monday #582

Posted on June 3, 2024 by Fiona

We had nice weather over the weekend so the strawberry plants are in – and now we’ve been offered a potato growing bag, so we could have quite the kitchen garden soon.   May round up and Malory Towers on … Continue reading →

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Reading the Famous Five to Brodie part 8

Posted on May 31, 2024 by Fiona

After our brief detour to the Adventure series we returned to back to back Famous Five. (There have only been about 20 days where I have not read an Enid Blyton book this year and most of them are the … Continue reading →

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