New Weekly Serial

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Me too! very enjoyable chapter! i love night time happenings! :-D
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Thanks Julie. I must say as a child I always read the serials week by week (and still do), but I can understand those who prefer to wait until they can read it all. I don't think any child ever saved up their Sunny Stories or Enid Blyton Magazine until they had a full story... and I suppose, just thinking about it now, a serial was a way of making sure the next issue was bought, and the next, and the next... :)

Thanks Rob.... more to come later on! :wink:
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Daisy wrote:I don't think any child ever saved up their Sunny Stories or Enid Blyton Magazine until they had a full story... and I suppose, just thinking about it now, a serial was a way of making sure the next issue was bought, and the next, and the next... :)
Daisy, that's true, but not everybody has the memory of a child. :cry:
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Oh so true Chrissie, so true. :(
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Hi Daisy, sorry for not writing sooner.

I was never a fan of the Secret Seven so I wasn't sure if I wanted to read it, as I never connected to them as I did to the other series. But finally I began reading. I like your story and I'm looking forward to the next chapter.

I will never be a fan of them, there are just to many children without any serious role I think, but they are better than I remembered.
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I started to read Julie's Barney mystery and Rob's Famous Five adventure as a serial but I found I was having to re-read chapters to refresh my memory so I eventually read them continually, as I would a book.
I intend to do the same with your story about the Secret Seven, Daisy, when it is all available.
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I also prefer to read the serials when I have a complete set of the chapters, John.

Like Dinah Cunningham, I was never a big fan of the Secret Seven and agree that there are just too many children without any serious role. I did read the first eight books in the series as a child, but I have never really been interested in returning to them.
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I enjoyed today's chapter very much indeed! A secret passage in a Secret Seven book is something quite unexpected! I loved the descriptions - I felt quite claustrophobic thinking of Scamper going along there! Great stuff! 8)
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That sounds wonderful!!! Looking forward to read the entire story in one session, especially the secret passage scenes.
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oops! Sorry Chrissie - I'd forgotten not everyone is reading it until its all been uploaded to the site! Sorry to give spoilers! :oops:
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Rob, au contraire: now I'm even looking forward much more to read it! :D
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Another good chapter, Daisy. :)
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Thanks Julie.
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Chrissie777 wrote:Rob, au contraire: now I'm even looking forward much more to read it! :D
Glad to hear it, Chrissie! :-D I won't disclose any other plot developments though! :-D
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Eddie Muir wrote:I also prefer to read the serials when I have a complete set of the chapters, John.
Me two, hence the reason that I Havant commented on you're storey, Daisy.

Edit: Wretched auto-correct.... :twisted:
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