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Category Archives: Blog talk
Monday #614
As so often is the case I am sitting staring at a blank bit of WordPress editor, wondering what to write. Even I get bored of mentioning what the weather is like. (Mild, if you were wondering). I started this … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Smith, Five and the Forgotten Treasure, January, Monday, The New Famous Five
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Monday #613
Monday #613 just so happens to be published on the 13th of January? If I wasn’t sure that the numbering system had gone wrong somewhere perhaps I’d read that as some sort of omen. At least it’s Monday and not … Continue reading
2024 birthday and Christmas present round up
Having posted on Monday what I was going to write this week, for some reason I then spent the last few days writing my 2024 reading round up. I should have been putting together the one about my birthday and … Continue reading
Monday #612
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a good time over the holidays. I had always intended to take a break over Christmas, but it started earlier than I had planned as I came down with the flu. I am … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020s Famous Five Series, 2025, Famous Five on TV, January, Monday
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Monday #608
We are well into December now! Brodie has asked for Christmas-themed stories so we have picked up Christmas Tales which we only half-read after Christmas 2022 and then forgot about. Letters to Enid part 62 and Five on a Treasure … Continue reading
Monday #607
The first Monday of December is upon us! Our Christmas tree went up last weekend but yesterday the advent calendars came out and Elf arrived. I can’t decide how I think Blyton would have felt about Elf. He’s very much … Continue reading
Monday #606
December is nearly upon us. Normally this is about the time I’d turn on the snow fall effect here, but sadly WordPress took it away a year or two ago. We haven’t had any real snow yet, just a lot … Continue reading
Monday #604
It’s Sunday evening as I write this and that’s good for me as I often write it on Monday itself, which is never my plan. What’s not so good was the little conversation my brain had with itself this morning, … Continue reading
Monday #602
Yep, I know it’s Tuesday but Monday rather ran away from me. There was taking Brodie to school, then going to work, and picking Brodie up from school, then a very busy Halloween party at the library. I was tired … Continue reading
Monday #601
As it has been the school holidays I decided (rather last-minute) that I would take a writing break, hence the sudden silence here. Did I use that time to figure out the mystery of the Monday numbering? No, I did … Continue reading
Monday #600
I wanted to lead with some sort of exclamation of how can it be 600 weeks since I started this blog? But the maths just isn’t mathing there. It’ll be 12 years in around 4 weeks, so it should be more like … Continue reading
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Tagged Folio Society, The Enchanted Wood, The Magic Faraway Tree
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Monday #599
It’s the very end of September now and temperatures have plummeted. We’ve had frost in the morning, so it’s not a great time for our boiler to have started acting up. It should hopefully be fixed by Monday afternoon, though. … Continue reading
Monday #598
The brief resurgence of warm weather is well and truly over, and I am writing this from under a cosy blanket. If I was in an Enid Blyton book I would of course say under a cosy rug. Rug meaning blanket is … Continue reading
Monday #597
Letters to Enid part 57 and Reading The Sea of Adventure to Brodie When I added this banner it was because I wanted to answer a question that had been asked. But why not use it to ask a question … Continue reading
Monday #596
It’s Monday again – why do the weekends always go by so fast? Letters to Enid part 56 and Lifting the flap on two new “Enid Blyton” books Oh I say! Pretty much every Enid Blyton character must say this … Continue reading
Monday #595
And just like that, it’s September already. Summer isn’t over (if it ever began!) but the evenings are growing darker already. August round-up and Enid Blyton’s favourite words We have books of the week this week, these two which crossed … Continue reading
Monday #594
You know you’ve been reading too much Enid Blyton* at bedtime when your child turns to you and says You’re a beast! *Obviously there’s not really such thing as too much Enid Blyton. Letters to Enid part 55 and Enid Blyton’s … Continue reading
Monday #593
I know that I’ve put The Treasure Hunters on the list two weeks running now, but things just keep coming up! It’s probably about half-finished at this point so maybe this week will be the week! Reading The Treasure Hunters … Continue reading
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Monday #592
The last six weeks have flown by and schools go back tomorrow! Brodie is now 7 and is going into primary 3, I can hardly believe it. We are currently reading The Mountain of Adventure (oh, those Welsh accents, look … Continue reading
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