The Enid Blyton Society

Just chanced across this small Yahoo group while researching the 1970s series. It contains a 1979 interview with Jennifer Thanisch conducted by a Spanish magazine plus photos taken around the same time. One or two inaccuracies pop in due to the translation but it makes good reading all the same. A must for diehard 70s series fans.

Here's the link; http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/jennythanisch/ You will have to sign into this Yahoo group to view the interview and pictures, as my conscience will not permit me to lift photos and files from other websites!

Thanks for sharing that, petermax - I will dip in there later.

Most interesting. Looks like you have to join the group to read the translated magazine articles, I will do so later on when I have time.

I never would have guessed that an actress like Jenny Thanisch who has not acted in years and is, after all, not really that famous would have her own Yahoo group. Truly it illustrates the power of the internet to bring us info on any subject under the sun.

The vast majority of child actors/actresses disappear back into obscurity once filming is over and all the interviews, other TV appearances etc dry up. I don't think that 30 years ago anyone would have imagined that the Famous Five TV series would be remembered with such affection in the early 21st century. The only other series that surpassed this is perhaps Worzel Gummidge which was also made by Southern Television.

Ah, those halcyon days of Southern! Check out http://www.southern-tv.co.uk/ for a bit of nostalgia!

Heck, Nigel, HTML is disabled!!

And as usual, as soon as I commented, you have edited your post.

Ming wrote:Heck, Nigel, HTML is disabled!!

And as usual, as soon as I commented, you have edited your post.

Thank you, Ming! Hopefully no-one will have noticed!

Unless of course Tony or Moose was lurking around in his/her invisibility cloak.

As if I would!!

I thought you were connected 24 hours a day?

Off topic, but I love the way Ming works out who is on line!

Ming wrote:I thought you were connected 24 hours a day?

No, No!! My email is connected all day, so whatever I am working on I can see if there is a reply to anything and also at the moment can see all the people trying to register (who now have to be approved and 9 out of 10 are spammers), so I do check in quite often, but I am not there all the time. Just to prove the point I will remove my hidden status for 24 hours, so you can see when I check in!!

Sorry Jenny lovers, I have gone even further off topic, but it seems that you are right - you have to register to see the pics.

Tony Summerfield wrote:Just to prove the point I will remove my hidden status for 24 hours, so you can see when I check in!!

I will watch out for you.

Great timing, Tony, as soon as I posted that I see you online!

Yes, I am typing out David Cook's article for the next Journal and suddenly a message comes up to say I have a reply!

Great, Tony. By the way, half of mine is ready, just the other half left. I will try to send it in by the next two days (sorry as I was supposed to give it today!)