Random words to Blyton Worlds
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In "The Castle of Adventure" Philip had a fox cub called Button
Next word: knitting needle
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Aunt Grace is often busy with her knitting needles in House-at-the-Corner. At one point, when she's vexed at the rudeness and selfishness of family members, she's described as knitting all her annoyance into a sock.
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Next word: teeth
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Buster the Scottie dog's teeth regularly have a good snap at PC "Clear-Orf" Goon's ankles in the Five Find-Outers series!
Next word: Feather
Next word: Feather
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
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At the beginning of The Mystery of the Vanished Prince, Fatty disguises himself as a Gypsy woman wearing a feathered hat.
Next word: Gate.
Next word: Gate.
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When Fatty and Bets went to Miss Kay's cottage in "The Mystery of the Invisible Thief" they noted that: "The gate was half off its hinges and one of its bars had gone".
Next word: Comb
Next word: Comb
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In The Naughtiest Girl in the School, Elizabeth gives Joan a red comb and a red purse for her birthday.
Next word: afraid
Next word: afraid
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In Five Go Down to the Sea, Cornish boy Yan has a characteristic word for "afraid" — "frit"!
Next word: Ring
Next word: Ring
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
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Does bell ringing qualify (as in The Ring O'Bells Mystery) or does it have to be a ring (i.e. an item of jewellery?)
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I would think it's your own interpretation of the word, Monique. IMO either one.
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Thanks John!
I'll stick with the bells in RING o'bells.
Next word: Cucumber
I'll stick with the bells in RING o'bells.
Next word: Cucumber
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At the Land of Tea-Parties in The Folk of the Faraway Tree, Connie eats sandwiches containing pineapple and cucumber.
Next word: rescue
Next word: rescue
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Uncle Quentin rescues Timmy when he falls into the marsh in Smugglers' Top.
Next word: basket
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Tempted to go for all the times Buster is in Fatty's bicycle basket, but I'll go for Twit the Bakers bread basket in Invisible Thief that he uses to carry his big gloves and boots and the things he steals.
Next word: Cigar
Next word: Cigar
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I keep coming back to this but cannot remember where a cigar is mentioned...I have a vague notion that in one of the books (was it in the FFO ?) that one of the characters had the remains of a cigar in his pocket in order to "smell grown up"!!! Does anyone remember that or am I having a "senior moment" and mixing it up with something else I read?
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Yes, you're right, Boodi. That was the main scene I was thinking of as I'd just read the book - in The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat, Fatty leaves his father's cigar ends in the cat cage as one of the clues. He claims he smokes them and Pip says he probably just carries them to make himself "smell grown up" - which EB tells us is too close to the truth for Fatty's liking!
Fatty also leaves one of his father's cigar ends as a clue for Ern to find in The Mystery of the Hidden House. So I was thinking of either of those moments.
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Fatty also leaves one of his father's cigar ends as a clue for Ern to find in The Mystery of the Hidden House. So I was thinking of either of those moments.
Your turn to set one.
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