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Tag Archives: Five Go to Demon’s Rocks
Macaroons
Somehow when I think of macaroons I still picture the little round French macaroons or macarons. I’ve actually made the kind of macaroons that the Find-Outers devoured by the dozen, with Stef when she visited a few years ago. When … Continue reading
Monday #340
Letters to Enid part 16 and Five Get Into Trouble Fattish! Could the owner of the sleep-walking uncle be – that fat boy! Was is that pest again, On the Track of Something as usual? Mr Goon is rather upset … Continue reading
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Tagged Five Go to Demon's Rocks, Jeremiah Boogle, Monday, Mr Goon, October, The Mystery of the Strange Bundle
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Monday #321
Letters to Enid volume 5 and Five Go Off to Camp “Now, when I were a boy, a boy not much older than this here youngster, there wasn’t no light-house out there – but there was always them wicked rocks! … Continue reading
Monday #315
More Letters to Enid and Enid Blyton in The Child and the Book SORRY NOT TO SEE YOU THESE HOLS. HAVE GOT A MYSTERY TO SOLVE IN TIPPYLOOLOO, AND AM LEAVING BY AEROPLANE TO-DAY. ALL THE BEST! FATTY Fatty sends … Continue reading
My top Blyton locations
I had, initially, intended this to be a top ten. But knowing how they almost always turn into top elevens, example A (top Famous Five moments) and example B (Top Adventure Series moments), I missed the number out of the … Continue reading
Monday #285
The Valley of Adventure Holidays, 2018 and Miss Grayling’s Girls part 3 – the in-betweeners After writing a travel brochure for it recently, this week’s location has to be Demon’s Rocks. Demon’s Rocks is around the coast from Kirrin, … Continue reading
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Tagged Five Go to Demon's Rocks, Monday, Noddy, Noddy and the Magic Rubber, September, The Famous Five
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Demon’s Rocks holiday brochure, 2018 from Travel Blyton
Imagine if Blyton’s most famous locations were real, still existed and you could visit them today! This is how I think some adverts might look… Visit Demon’s Rocks and discover a thrilling history of wreckers at the renowned Jeremiah Boogle … Continue reading
Posted in Locations
Tagged Five Go to Demon's Rocks, Holidays, Jeremiah Boogle, Lighthouse
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Top 11 Famous Five moments
I’ve written plenty about the Famous Five, including putting the whole series into order from my most favourite to least favourite. And now I’ve decided to list my ten favourite moments from the series. Being 21 books long I can’t … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Experiences
Tagged Favourites, Five Get Into a Fix, Five Go Down to the Sea, Five Go to Demon's Rocks, Five Go to Smuggler's Top, Five Have Plenty of Fun, Five on a Hike Together, Five on a Treasure Island, Five on Finniston Farm, Five Run Away Together, The Famous Five
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Top nostalgic Blyton reads
We all have our favourite reads, the ones we go back to time and time again, like a comfort blanket but made of our favourite Blyton reads. I have decided to share my top three with you. Be warned, you … Continue reading
Putting the Famous Five in Order, part 2
THE TRICKY PART – 18 MORE TITLES As I said at the beginning of my previous post, I had in the past loosely grouped them into ‘most favourites’ ‘middling favourites’ and ‘least favourites’, so perhaps that’s a good place to … Continue reading
The Famous Five 70s Style: Five Go to Demon’s Rocks, part 2
This is going to sound harsh as I know that there are people out there who love the theme tune for the 70s Famous Five but after several false starts (I put the wrong DVD in for the episode three … Continue reading
Famous Five 70s Style: Five Go to Demon’s Rocks, part 1
Not being as familiar with the 70s Famous Five as I am with the 90s one, I clearly didn’t realise that Demon’s Rocks was a two-parter! I thought it was just one episode and actually it’s two, so next week … Continue reading
My three Favourite Blyton adults
As so often is the case Stef had a good idea for a blog and now I am going to shamelessly copy her and do the exact same. Strangely, coming up with three favourite adults has been a lot easier … Continue reading
Famous Five 90s Style: Five Go to Demon’s Rocks
Five go to Demons Rocks is one of my favourite books and one of my first books as a child, although it was much later on in my life when I actually read the story. Again I see it as … Continue reading
Stef’s six favourite Blyton books
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
Five Go to Demon’s Rocks: An exciting dramatised adventure
Five Go to Demon’s Rocks is also available on YouTube so I’ve sat myself down tonight to listen to it and share my thoughts. This was released on the Hodder CDs with Soper illustrations in 2007, along with Five Go … Continue reading
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Tagged Five Go to Demon's Rocks, The Famous Five
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Series Synopsis: The Famous Five Books 19-21
Here we are, at the end of this series of posts (did I just hear a lot of “phews” there?) One last time, there may be spoilers ahead. FIVE GO TO DEMON’S ROCKS, 1961 The Location: The village and lighthouse at … Continue reading
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