Enid Blyton - The Untold Story

[Eddie Muir]

I reckon that you should write a book about Enid Blyton, Anita!

Hear! Hear!

[Anita Bensoussane]

Heh - all my Journal articles and online posts about Enid Blyton probably add up to several books!

[John Pickup]

I reckon that you should write a book about Enid Blyton, Anita!

So do I. May I have a signed copy when it's complete please, Anita.

[pete9012S]

Carey Blyton wrote the theme tune for the children's TV programme "Bananas in Pyjamas"

That's true Jack, I had forgotten about that!

How have you been? Are you tempted to buy the book?

Regards

Pete

[Barnard]

Carey Blyton also composed incidental music for some Doctor Who stories in the 1960s.

[Anita Bensoussane]

So do I. May I have a signed copy when it's complete please, Anita.

[Fiona1986]

We could crowd fund it, Anita, if it helps. Maybe not to the tune of 20k, though. How about £200 and we all get signed copies?

[Jack400]

I have apparently "reported-successfully" a post from pete9012s that I was merely quoting and replying to... No idea how and no stain on him intended

[Jack400]

I'm, as I was trying to say, interested in the book-and stalled only by huge numbers that I have yet to read- puzzled by Brian's change in attitude towards the E.B. site

[Boatbuilder]

I have apparently "reported-successfully" a post from pete9012s that I was merely quoting and replying to... No idea how and no stain on him intended

Looks like you inadvertently clinked the exclamation mark icon instead of the quote marks, Jack and didn’t notice there was no quote in your post (which wasn’t a post). That will confuse Anita.

[Courtenay]

Carey Blyton wrote the theme tune for the children's TV programme "Bananas in Pyjamas"

I was just about to remind everyone about that, being an Aussie! Actually, technically Carey Blyton wrote the song "Bananas in Pyjamas", which was picked up by the Australian children's TV show Play School — it used to feature quite regularly, with a little animation, back in the 1980s when I was little. Then a few years later, in the early 1990s, someone decided to do a whole programme based on the song, with two bananas and three teddies as the main characters. I've never been able to work out why the teddies were given proper names — Morgan, Lulu and Amy — but the bananas were the terribly uninventive B1 and B2! But it did give rise to the legendary catchphrase: "Are you thinking what I'm thinking, B1?" "Yes, I think I am, B2!" "It's ______ time!" (party time, trick time, or whatever they'd simultaneously decided to do... I think they had that exchange in every episode!) The show was a huge hit, but I'm sure I read somewhere that Carey Blyton wasn't happy with it — I think it was something about him not getting fair royalties for the use of his song, unfortunately.

[Jack400]

I have apparently "reported-successfully" a post from pete9012s that I was merely quoting and replying to... No idea how and no stain on him intended

Looks like you inadvertently clinked the exclamation mark icon instead of the quote marks, Jack and didn’t notice there was no quote in your post (which wasn’t a post). That will confuse Anita.

The icons are very close together on a smartphone. The lack of a quote was immediately apparent- but, I was more concerned about the "reported-successfully".Grateful for the explanation of what had gone wrong, Boatbuilder. That particular post was abandoned and a reply (without a quote) was used instead-safer!

[Jack400]

There was also a children's tv programme in the UK called "Play School", Courtenay- did Australia make their own version- or did they use ours I wonder?

[Aussie Sue]

Not Courtney replying but another Aussie. Australia had it's own version of Play School with Aussie presenters.

[Barnard]

Don Spencer appeared in both the British and Australian versions of Play School.