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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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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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Famous Five 90s Style: Five Go Off in a Caravan

Posted on April 24, 2015 by pippastef

In my humble opinion the 90s TV adaptation of Five Go Off in a Caravan is probably one of the worst one given that in our first glimpsed of the Five, we can clearly see that Julian is hobbling along on … Continue reading →

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Famous Five 90s Style: Five Run Away Together

Posted on March 20, 2015 by pippastef

A couple of weeks ago, I brought you a review of Five Go Adventuring Again, remarking on how the story line worked and the acting. I hope to do the same with Five Run Away Together. This story was filmed … Continue reading →

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Famous Five 90s Style: Five Go Adventuring Again

Posted on March 8, 2015 by pippastef

So it has been absolutely ages since I posted anything about the Famous Five TV series, and when I did, I think I made it utterly confusing. Which had helped when coming back to the decision to write about the … Continue reading →

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The Famous Five TV Series: Even More (Funny) Captions

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Fiona

The captions I put on a fortnight ago seemed to go down well so I thought I would put some more on this week (as I couldn’t think of anything else to do!) Firstly, carrying on from last week’s leaning … Continue reading →

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The Famous Five 90s Series: Some More (Funny) Captions

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Fiona

A while back I posted these, and so for today I thought I’d post a few more funnies to do with the 90s Famous Five series. First up is a lengthy one entitled A study of Famous Five covers. I … Continue reading →

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The Famous Five 90s Series: Some (Funny) Captions

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Fiona

It’s not what I promised for this week but circumstances (ie me not feeling well,) have led me to throw this together quickly. I’d like to say there’s a story behind these captions, but other than “Stef and I were … Continue reading →

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TV Series Comparison: Five on a Treasure Island

Posted on June 21, 2013 by pippastef

Author’s note: I’m sorry not to be able to bring you a blog from our fabulous Blyton weekend as promised on Monday, but I’ve been so busy I haven’t had time to write it, and certainly not well. So here’s … Continue reading →

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When people search for Enid Blyton, what are they looking for? (#1)

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Fiona

When people search for Blyton related media, what are they looking for? A large proportion of our blog views* come from various search engines – and WordPress tells us exactly what the search terms were. It’s really interesting to see … Continue reading →

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Just Another Manic Monday

Posted on March 18, 2013 by pippastef

Time certainly is hurtling past us at a fair speed of knots and I, for one, wish it wouldn’t! We are less than two weeks away from Easter, the clocks still haven’t gone forward and we have hardly had a … Continue reading →

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The Famous Five TV Series

Posted on December 18, 2012 by pippastef

There have been a few adaptions of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five for the television and screen over the years. The first was Five on a Treasure Island in 1957, in black-and-white, made as a weekly serial for cinema goers by … Continue reading →

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