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Stef’s six favourite Blyton books

Posted on October 2, 2015 by pippastef

So Fiona did her favourite six books for you last week and I promised I would do the same this week, so here goes. It is quite hard doing six! That sixth favourite was quite a hard choice to make. … Continue reading →

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Making Blyton’s Food: Cherry cake

Posted on September 25, 2015 by pippastef

This week as I mentioned on my Monday post, we’ve got an extra special Making Blyton’s food because this cherry cake recipe comes from the woman herself! The cherry cake recipe, which I found in the Enid Blyton Society Journal was actually … Continue reading →

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Famous Five 90s Style: Five Have a Wonderful Time, part 2

Posted on September 18, 2015 by pippastef

After promising you this blog last week and failing to write it, I hope you don’t mind me bringing you the second part of Five have a Wonderful Time, part 2. Part 1 can be found here if you need to refresh … Continue reading →

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Apple Song – A poem by Enid Blyton

Posted on September 11, 2015 by pippastef

I’m bringing you a poem today about apples from The Enid Blyton Poetry Book. I decided on this poem over others because there are so many apples around at the moment, falling from wayside trees and leaving a plentiful bounty for … Continue reading →

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Famous Five 90s Style: Five Have a Wonderful Time, part 1

Posted on September 4, 2015 by pippastef

I have decided to do Five Have a Wonderful Time in two parts, because it is a two-part episode and because I think that this adaptation needs to be looked at in two different chunks. A lot of character development … Continue reading →

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Making Blyton’s Food: Heroic Chocolate Cake by Jane Brocket

Posted on August 28, 2015 by pippastef

Well I managed to make a cake, but its not strictly Blyton. I reverted to Jane Brocket’s book after my foray into Delia last time, but unfortunately the baking Blyton saviour did not have a Blyton Chocolate cake, and we … Continue reading →

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Famous Five 90s Style: Five on a Hike Together

Posted on August 23, 2015 by pippastef

So as you’re aware we’ve had a bit of a shift about with the blogs this week, it will come as no surprise to you that its left to me to entertain you this Sunday. Earlier in the week I … Continue reading →

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The Circus of Adventure

Posted on August 14, 2015 by pippastef

So I finally got stuck into The Circus of Adventure, and I have to admit, for all my sins I haven’t been able to finish it, but I have read 3/4 of it so feel refreshed enough to review it … Continue reading →

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How to Throw a Famous Five Party

Posted on August 7, 2015 by pippastef

I know I know, I have failed to bring you a review of The Circus of Adventure  yet again, but I’m sure you’d rather I’d had a refreshing read of it, before I wrote about it. This means that I’m going … Continue reading →

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Famous Five 90s Style: Five Fall Into Adventure

Posted on August 2, 2015 by pippastef

I, like Fiona, have not managed to bring you the promised blog this week. I really need two weeks head start to finish a book in time at the moment and what with one thing and another (extra shifts at … Continue reading →

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Making Blyton’s Food: Victoria sponge

Posted on July 26, 2015 by pippastef

I’ve been back in the kitchen again, creating a cake that I think is an important part of Blyton’s food. I can’t think of an instance at this moment in time where Victoria Sponge is mentioned by name, but its … Continue reading →

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Famous Five 90s Style: Five Get Into Trouble

Posted on July 17, 2015 by pippastef

This book is one of the more complex books when you get down to the characters and in a ways, although thrilling, the plot is sort of secondary. The characters and their interactions are what makes up for most of … Continue reading →

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A Song of July – A poem by Enid Blyton

Posted on July 15, 2015 by pippastef

To fill in the gap as we have no contributor today, I’ve chosen to bring you one of Blyton’s Poems called A Song of July. Softly the river goes swaying along, Dreamily singing its rippling song, Round by the mill, … Continue reading →

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Last Monday in June

Posted on June 29, 2015 by pippastef

Here we are at the end of another month, and in fact we’ve had a smashing week here at the blog! Our best ever day happened on the 25th June, when a Spanish food blog El Comidista shared a link to … Continue reading →

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Famous Five 90s Style: Five Go Off to Camp

Posted on June 28, 2015 by pippastef

Five Go Off to Camp is one of my favourite adaptations of the books. Overall it doesn’t leave too much out and the acting is very good. There is the fact that Jock is probably older than I would have … Continue reading →

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The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage

Posted on June 21, 2015 by pippastef

As you may know, I’m not very good at bringing you the blogs I promise, but this week I have been super good, even though I’ve been on holiday with Fiona, and re-read the first Five Find-Outers book The Mystery of … Continue reading →

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The Twinniest Twins: The O’Sullivan Twins from St Clare’s

Posted on June 12, 2015 by pippastef

This week’s Twinniest twins is all about the O’Sullivan twins from the St Clare’s series. They are the second lot of female twins we’ve looked at, but the first set of identical girl twins. The O’Sullivan twins, Isabel and Pat … Continue reading →

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An Evening of June – A poem by Enid Blyton

Posted on June 7, 2015 by pippastef

Today I bring you another of Blyton’s poems from The Enid Blyton Poetry Book called An Evening of June, which is somewhat appropriate for we have just entered the month of June. I hope you enjoy it! Slowly the sun … Continue reading →

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The Ship of Adventure

Posted on May 31, 2015 by pippastef

I finally got around to finishing The Ship of Adventure for this week’s blog, at approximately 8pm yesterday (Sunday) and then had to sit down and write the blog. It was a good thing that I re-read the book as … Continue reading →

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Adventures with George and Timmy 4: The Footprint in the Sand

Posted on May 24, 2015 by pippastef

This is the third story in the omnibus that I have of George and Timmy adventures. The Footprint in the Sand as a title doesn’t really have much to do with the story, unless I missed something very important. However … Continue reading →

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