Hello David - good to see you here again. I have just read your delightful sonnet by following the link. I like it very much. I guess you don't have much time for reading Blyton these days! Do you still sign yourself off with "later days" as you used to? :) Hello there! Thanks for reading...

Merged with an older topic. Hi everyone - long time, no see! I've been lurking on the forums for quite some time, although I did go through a phase of posting here a lot. In the meantime, I've been spending a bit of time writing, working specifically on some pieces for children, and finally decided...

I was sad to read about his death, but I was sadder to read, in one of the many articles that have been posted on Facebook in the past day, about the statutory rape he committed in the 1970s, along with Jimmy Page, Mick Jagger, Jeff Beck, Marc Bolan, Alice Cooper, Robert Plant and Iggy Pop. I hadn't...

Actually, Audrey Hepburn sang hardly anything, only most of "Just You Wait", its reprise and single lines elsewhere. I think the dubbing in MY FAIR LADY is obvious and distracting. Warner Brothers should have cast someone who could play the part. It's incredibly rare for the substitution o...

I've done a little searching around the forums, but couldn't find out whether the Wishing Chair books had been subject to any revisions over time like many of other books have. Perhaps that means it hasn't been? Any ideas?

Thanks for posting this playlet, Tony. It was a fascinating little read and I was particularly interested to see Rhodes pop up. A figure who has certainly had mixed responses in South Africa over time, anti-Rhodes sentiments really came to a head here earlier this year when the #RhodesMustFall movem...

The one thing about Rilloby Fair that always puzzled me is how the robbery at Marloes Hall, which happened in the middle of the night, could be reported in the newspaper the next morning. Surely the paper would have been printed before the robbery was committed? Maybe it was in the "Stop Press...

Wow, thanks, Tony - that'd be fantastic. I imagined it was only a short piece, and I imagine it's something to do with making a map or a model of the Empire. I've just been finding it so interesting reading these early Blyton pieces and seeing how ideas that would find form again later in her work p...

My meanderings through the early works of Enid Blyton in the Cave of Books led me to the title of a play in The Teachers World : "The Making of an Empire" . Has anyone here ever read the play? What is it about? The quotation in the Cave certainly is intriguing: John: What a lot of pink the...

Perfect! Thanks, Tony!

Thanks! I do hover sometimes, although I don't often post. Just to follow up on my question above, in a book like The Merry Moments Annual , which was published the same year as "The Adventures of Bob Bunny" and "Waddles" and where there are 8 stories "not credited to Enid B...

I'm loving wandering through the Cave of Books at the moment, especially the listings for the early years. Thanks so much for all the continuing hard work to provide a fantastic resource like this! When it comes to the earliest of Enid Blyton's stories, am I right in understanding that prior to the ...

Great - thanks!

David Chambers' discovery of the 'Sonnet' in the poetry book produced by the Quill Club is fascinating. I was browsing through the Cave of Books and came across this item for the first time last night. A forum search brought me here. Is the sonnet available to read anywhere? Is it in this edition o...

I read Hollow Tree House both as a child and then again as grown-up. I loved the book as a child and found living in a tree romantic and exciting. As grown-up, I marvel at the evil aunt Margaret. And found the children a bit wimpy since they wanted to stay with this evil aunt rather than going to a...