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A small puzzle has arrived for Secret Seven Club Members.

Can you unscramble all the acronyms in the above letter?


Even Enid had a little trouble with the first one! :D
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Just got time to try & answer the first one before I rush out.... :D
YAMFA. I thought this would probably be 'You Are My Favourite Author'! I'll try the others when I return home tonight! :D
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:shock: And we thought creative abbreviations and "text-speak" only really took off in the 21st century!! :P

I think I might have figured out the others, but I don't want to spoil it for you, Number 6, so I won't jump in yet. :wink:
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I think I've worked them out too. I find Enid's puzzles quite good fun despite being several years over the target age! :wink:

I like the way Enid Blyton seizes the opportunity to prompt children to write to the BBC begging for her stories to be broadcast!
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I'm fairly certain I've got the next two. I'm not so sure about the last one. :D
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Anita Bensoussane wrote: I like the way Enid Blyton seizes the opportunity to prompt children to write to the BBC begging for her stories to be broadcast!
:mrgreen: Never missed a trick, did she? :wink:
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I think I've worked them out too. :D
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Well done to everyone who unscrambled the letters!

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Another little puzzle.

Who drew the above?
What were they used for?
When were they used?

Can anyone show an example of them in use?
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No idea, but you've got me intrigued. It looks like a child trying out different combinations of his/her initials. Enid Blyton? Emily Bronte?

Anyone know the answer?
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Hmmm. Enid occasionally drew her own sketches for her column in Teacher's World and so on... are these different versions of her initials that she used to sign her drawings?
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So far no one on the facebook page has been able to identify the story or illustrator of the above pic - can you?
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Like the book titles the picture is so generic that it could be any of them.
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The illustrator looks like Burgess Sharrocks. He illustrated the last eight Secret Seven books, including some magazine serialisations.
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Thanks Guys.We're starting to narrow it down a bit now!

Isn't it funny,if it was a Famous Five illustration I bet we'd get it very quickly! :D
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hi , sorry not to have been around lately but have been under the docs and hospital with a sus[pected mini stroke . the consultant now thinks i didnt have a mini stroke but i have had to have a brain scan and one on my neck . the artery is a bit thick but not as bad as was first thought so am on medication. i have to go back to the hospital at end of may. its been rather scary and still a bit scared.
any more mysteries around? whats other members news?
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