The Enid Blyton Society

Leaves: The leaves on the willow trees which started to grow inside Willow House as the stakes the children had planted took root and made the walls more dense. (I'm reading "The Secret Island" at the moment. )


Fish:

Fish: In the short story "A Nest for a Fish!", Pip comes up with a clever idea to protect the stickleback's eggs from being eaten by tadpoles and water beetles — "Build a nest for them, as the birds do!" And, of course, it works. I've never seen a stickleback in real life, but they're another part of Britain's natural world that I know about thanks to Enid Blyton!

Year:

Year: Round the Year with Enid Blyton. A book I had when I was young and which opened my eyes to nature in a new way.


Lagoon:

Lagoon: What else but the lagoon in The Sea of Adventure where those mysterious parcels are dropped by a gang who are very determined to prevent anyone from discovering them... One of the most thrilling and dangerous adventures in all Enid's books — as others were saying in a recent discussion, it's possibly the best she ever wrote.

Door:

Door: So many doors! One that comes to mind is the door hidden behind boxes in the cellar at Craggy Tops which leads to the underground passage to the shore.

Necklace:

Necklace: the 'Secret Necklace' in the book 'Adventure of the Secret Necklace' - book I always think of as an abbreviated 'Treasure Hunters'!

Curtain:

Curtain: The curtain across a window in the passage at Smugglers' Top where Block hid, hoping to catch the children as they took Timmy to the bedroom.

Envelope:

Daisy wrote:Curtain: The curtain across a window in the passage at Smugglers' Top where Block hid, hoping to catch the children as they took Timmy to the bedroom.

Funny - that's the curtain I had in mind, as I'm reading Smuggler's Top!

anyway -

Envelope:

Envelope: The one in which the Find-Outers place duplicates of the false clues they laid in and around the cats' cage in The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat, so that if challenged (which they are), they can produce the proof that they were false clues...

Swimming:

Swimming

Amanda going swimming in the ocean in Last Term at Malory Towers against the rules and becoming injured.

Birthday cake

Birthday Cake

Ah! Just right for my birthday! The Birthday cakes in 'The Land of Birthdays' which have your name magically written on them in icing!

Book

Book: "Spiggy Holes - a record of smuggling days". I'm reading The Secret of Spiggy Holes at the moment!

Spade:

Spade: One of the tools used by J,D,A&G and Harry & Harriet Philpott to dig down into the rabbit hole—in "Five On Finniston Farm"—and discover the underground passages of the old castle.


Gate:

Gate: There's a Mr Pink-Whistle short story in which he regularly sees a young girl sitting and swinging on her gate, always with a happy smile, and it turns out her name, appropriately, is Merry. Then when something happens to make her sad, of course he makes it right again... I think the story is in Mr Pink-Whistle's Party, but all my Pink-Whistle books are back in Australia. (Can one of you knowledgeable types fill me in?) But I do remember that opening scene — Mr P-W meeting a girl who sits on her gate and is always smiling.

Stream:

The Stream that Barney and the others follow, then later Miranda escapes down, in Rockingdown Mystery.

Candle