Hi all! Thank you so much for the birthday wishes! I thought I should indeed come out of hiding and at least write a thank you reply! I've been fairly busy - decorating my dad's old bedroom, now I'm in the house alone. Its been a year of change - a real learning curve, as at the age of 48 I was sudd...

I've just finished Hollow Tree House. One of the few I've not read before and I really enjoyed it. What a ghastly hateful old dragon Aunt Margaret is, like Snow White and Cinderella's step-mothers put together! I agree with Susan at the end saying she doesn't deserve to have them visit and was anno...

I'm reading Holiday House. Its been one of my favourite Eb books since childhood - I just love the holiday atmosphere, interesting characters (especially Ruth and 'Gloomy Graham'!) and the atmosphere of intrigue that permeates the novel. Its not a big exciting mystery maybe, but Enid, as always, mak...

I'm actually planning my first tattoo, which I want to have to mark my 50th birthday in January...probably something with a dragon, as befits my Welsh ancestry!

At risk of going off topic, lol - I think the Enid Blyton book I've read the most is probably The Rilloby Fair Mystery - which I have read two or three times more than Rubadub, as it was the first Barney book I ever owned in hardback when I was 10. Its a book I love, and I rate it as one of the funn...

Yes - The Rubadub Mystery was intended as the last book in the Barney series...I think Enid mentions this in her preface to The Rat A Tat Mystery. It was the perfect ending to the series, and the two following books lost their emotionally dramatic intensity due to Barney becoming 'a normal boy' just...

Lol! Glad you enjoyed the book, Pete! A pleasure to send it to you.

And the translation is superb!

"We wondered where you'd gone, Rob!" exclaimed the other forumites, as Rob Houghton shuffled into view.

Happy Birthday, Daisy! Hope you are having a lovey day!

Thought I'd jump in here, as I know Pete likes to try and beat me by highlighting something NOT in my collection! :lol: Well - hard luck, Pete - I have the comic strip version of The Golden Galleon'. I actually quite like the artwork, though nowhere near traditional Famous Five - and its bright and ...

I did, Chrissie...and I thought I replied...?

Fascinating to read everyone's impressions of Journal 71 - and many thanks to the kind comments about my own article. I always enjoy writing them, especially when I can tie memories of my own childhood into the books I mention! Many thanks also for the enquiries after my well-being! I'm getting on o...

I haven't caught any of it yet. Being away from the forums for a week or so, I have got left behind! Sounds like most people feel a good job has been done.

Lol! I seem to have missed this - although technically we were still waiting for the official answer, I guess!

I was lucky enough to be given a copy of this book by an EB member in a 'swap'. Its a lovely book!