Belated Happy Birthday to the Ms Grayling of the Enid Blyton forums! Hope you had a smashing birthday and wishing you many more happy returns of the day!

Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season to all the forum members Thank you all for providing a place to discuss my most favorite author to date and bringing back some wonderful childhood memories!

Been quite busy lately with work and entertaining family visiting from India but had to post when I saw this thread
Hope you are having a wonderful day Ming, and enjoying your vacation in Darjeeling!!

Lovely video Ming! The picture of you with Nigel and his wife was great!

Edited to add: I watched it 3 times and it gets better each time!
Looks to me like Nigel's fan club in Bangladesh is growing

Where is Nigel?? Is this the longest he has been away from the forums? We know you're having fun and all but hurry back, we need your permission to see Ming's video

Awesome pics Ian! Very atmospheric as Anita says. Thanks for scanning them and looking forward to seeing the rest.

Mom and Dad are fine. They miss you! But I have some problems with your story, Darrell, sorry, but I am influenced from the later german books. Darrell belongs to Malory Towers! Hi Julia, Sorry, you didn't like my story. It wasn't very creative actually. I HAD to make Darrell successful, and all I ...

Hiiii Alicia! Simply smashing to see you after all these years! Been in touch with Betty Hill? Glad you could make it to the party Felicity! How are Mom and Dad getting on? Note - Darrell Rivers is married to a surgeon, moved to the US and is a very successful children's author. She has two adorable...

Happy Birthday Nigel

Hope you have a blast!
and don't forget to have a fire extinguisher on hand when you light those candles

Ooooh did you say " A party"? I'm there! (as Darrell of course). And just in case Gwen plans on being there too, please let her know I HAVE got my temper under control! Really, I have No slaps for anyone unless Dame Slap is coming!!!

I had a Schlotzsky's deli veggie sandwich for lunch. Awesome! It's a chain deli place in the US. Not sure if it's made it's way elsewhere but I love it.

It's real easy to pack in the calories but even to lose 1 lb takes a lot of work. So congrats Moose! Hope you keep up with it. My problem is, I tend to gain weight in the belly area real easy and quickly (must be heredity). It was moooost embarassing when a year ago an acquaintance asked me if I was...

I've no idea I'm afraid as I don't have a copy of the book ( Oh! What a Lovely Time ,1949) from which that picture was taken! The illustration is by Jeanne Farrar and I scanned it from page 76 of Tony Summerfield's The Enid Blyton Dossier ! Anita Nice avatar. I thought perhaps it was Elizabeth Alle...

My family in India had blocked an air ticket to visit us on September 11th this year, but I dissuaded them (even though the price was dirt cheap) and they changed the date. I don't think I will EVER be able to fly anywhere on that date even if someone offered me a free ticket. PS - Glad to see you b...

Update :D My nephew was able to purchase all the books I asked for except for Six Cousins and Six Cousins Again. He also could not find Barbara Stoney's biography or Childhood at Green Hedges. I probably will not be paying much attention to the family when they arrive with all these books :D My husb...