Adventure series Readathon

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Are you in agreement of having an Adventure series readathon?

Poll ended at 09 Nov 2008, 18:16

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John Pickup
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I'm okay with the first eight letters and the last eight. It's the bit in the middle I struggle with. :D
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:lol: :lol:
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BTW John Pickup, I just checked the Burhou puffin cam and the website states that it won't be turned on before April. So I'll check it out on Friday. We had a thread about the puffin cam, hopefully I'll be able to find it again.

Daisy and Cathy, isn't time flying by very very fast? :)
To me it feels as if it was just a few months ago when we talked about the puffins activity on the web cam, but actually that was last summer.
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It certainly does seem to fly by these days Chrissie. I'm looking forward to seeing the puffins again.
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Chrissie777 wrote: Daisy and Cathy, isn't time flying by very very fast? :)
To me it feels as if it was just a few months ago when we talked about the puffins activity on the web cam, but actually that was last summer.
It certainly is!
I'm really looking forward to seeing Huffin and Puffin and the rest of the guys too!
I'm reading the Adventure series at the moment so it'll be lovely to see the birdies for real! :)
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I'll have to reread it soon, too!
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Chrissie777 wrote:I'll have to reread it soon, too!
I'm looking forward to seeing Huffin and Puffin again.
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Me as well, Francis :wink: .
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That's strange. I had the usual EBS notification in my inbox about a new post made for a threat I'm following, but there is no post by Wolfgang. :(
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Me too! I think he must have deleted it since we were notified!
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Yes, that's it!
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Yes, I moved the post to the "Valley of adventure Readathon"-thread which I thought was more suitable.
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Thank you, Wolfgang. I found it. :)
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I am just posting to say that I am currently reading Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall and have just come across avery comedic scene featuring a Welsh silver band which is liberally sprinkled with "Look yous" and "Whatevers". The book is set in North Wales in the fictional village of Llanabba. Whether or not it is true that Welsh people do, or ever did, use these terms it is clear that Blyton was not the only author to put them into the mouths of her Welsh characters. :D
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Interesting!

As I've said before, I find the 'look you' 'whateffa' thing to be totally unrealistic! I wonder where the idea came from? All my relatives on my dad's side are from North Wales (Denbigh area) and I've never heard any of them using either of those expressions. :lol:
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Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'

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