The Enid Blyton Society

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Poppy! Hope your day is going well!

Thanks everyone! Your messages are really appreciated. I have had a lovely day.

Happy birthday, Poppy. Glad you've had a lovely day.

Happy Birthday Poppy.

Happy Birthday for yesterday, Poppy. I seem to be missing a few birthdays lately!

Thank you John, Katharine and Nigel!

Also Happy Birthday for yesterday Poppy! I hope you had a nice time and wish all the best for the new year!

By the way yesterday was the "feast" for Saint Léonie Aviat, the founder of the sisters where I learnt French...

Thank you very much, Dinah!

Best wishes for the new year to you, too.

Have you run out of green ink, floragord?

Thank you Floragord!

Moonraker wrote:Have you run out of green ink, floragord?

Green ink going strong, thanks Moonraker! , congratulations, greetings and salutations go out in red for good luck and to mark auspicious occasions

Red ink always reminds me of teachers' remarks in my school work! Usually, "See me"!

Moonraker wrote:Red ink always reminds me of teachers' remarks in my school work! Usually, "See me"!

Ooer, yes, my (Australian equivalent of) A-level English teacher used to do that. Pickiest teacher I ever had. Every single student would get their work back covered in red annotations, alterations and occasional outright condemnations. I used to count myself lucky I never got her dreaded red NO with the double underline!! But she had a good heart, really, and we were quite friendly by the time I finished school.

Anyway — to try to get this hijacked birthday thread back on topic — I should think Floragord's celebratory red ink is especially appropriate for someone called Poppy!

Just to take this topic even further off topic, I believe teachers nowadays are encouraged not to use red ink, as it sends the child a bad message about its work...another politically correct farce! Children can apparently be scarred for life from reading comments in red ink, so green is encouraged as a calming colour...and no words like 'see me!!' are allowed. At least, this is what I was taught when doing teacher training in the mid 2000's. We were also encouraged not to put a cross by any answers - just give the correct answer and only use ticks, not crosses.

I remember having 'see me!' written on a few of my pages, and also 'date!!??' if I forgot the date. Also 'this is not good enough!!'.