Well...you girls have only gone and got it absolutely right! :mrgreen: Well done you! The shop in Finniston Village where the Famous Five ate all those macaroons was variously described as "half-dairy, half baker's", and "ice-cream shop" - hence the D could be a B or an ICS. Your...

Thanks, Daisy!

24 M for the F 5 at the D in F V.


Have a clue: The "D" in the line above could equally be "B". It could even be "I C S"!

Mike and Nora are Twins?

Hmm...in the Cave, there's a book called The Three Golliwogs, and the contents list shows a chapter called "The Gollies Make A Pie", so I'll guess:

The Three Golliwogs tuck into three blueberry pies?

Drat, I knew I should've read the Noddy books when I was a kid!

Poppy, will you set the next ditloid, please? I never would have known what the T and B A was without your guess.

Sixpence there and back again?

(If so, what book is that from?)

I think we're going to have to guess this one in bits again, Anita!

As the 6 and the P are stuck together, is the first word "sixpence"?

Two thumbs up, Aurélien! Molly she was. Your go!

Cheers, Moonraker!

Sticking with Spiteful Letters, what is the name of Gladys's friend - the girl who was at the same Home as Gladys, now works in Peterswood, and also received an anonymous letter?

It's the telegraph boy (who is really Fatty in disguise) in The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters who says he has an uncle in South China.

I don't know if Fatty gave his telegraph boy character a name...though I do recall he likes being called Sid or Alf when he's in disguise!

"Slappings of pudding" sounds fantastic, Poppy!

If memory serves, Saucepan was angry with his friends for dissing his mother (he was mistaken, actually), and that's why he made up such rude songs about them.

Can't remember the order of the Ss, but I think one was slappings, one was snubbings, and one was spankings. So I'll guess:

Two spankings for Connie
Two snubbings for Jo
Two slappings for Bessie
Hi tiddly ho!

Yay! I hope your inspiration is correct!

I've never read that one. So who was it who went into the basket?

Drat!

Rain?

Rocks?

Rats?!

Or is it a name, like Rover?

Never fear, Anita - we'll get there in the end!

Argh, "Percy Pig" keeps popping into my head for PP. Go away, Percy Pig!

Tap the lid of the green and yellow basket seven times for...raspberries?

Edit 1: Raisins?

Edit 2: Rabbits?