Oh you're coming to my favourite part of Wales! I am really envious now! If you are going to the coast and get the chance, I highly recommend a visit to Llangrannog, Cwmtydu and Aberporth (and doing the mile coastal path walk to Tresaith) . They are beautiful with a capital B and like something straight out of an EB book .pete9012S wrote:We're heading to Ceredigion - hope I've pronounced that correctly!!
What Enid Blyton book are you reading right NOW!
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Bedtime reading is 'The Mountain of Adventure'. Blissful dreams tonight!
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Dreams of flying??
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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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Francis, my bedtime reading tonight will be the last 20 pages of "The Secret Island"..I love this story!!!Francis wrote:Bedtime reading is 'The Mountain of Adventure'. Blissful dreams tonight!
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Courtenay wrote:Dreams of flying??
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I never used to rate this book until my last re-read of the series a year or so ago. I really enjoyed it and it has climbed above Ship and River in my estimation.Francis wrote:Bedtime reading is 'The Mountain of Adventure'. Blissful dreams tonight!
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I agree to be honest. As a child I hated it and it was responsible for me not reading any others in the series (I'd only read Valley, Island and Mountain before I reached 30) - but when I read it again last year I suddenly realised it was better than I remembered. Its still rather weird and more like science-fiction, but its very entertaining despite that.
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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it also has Bill and Allie's relationship becoming very strong indeed! Bill can hardly bear to part from her. They both come down to breakfast together...............! it's like a book within a book. Suddenly they seem quite happy to let the children go off without them.
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The strange thing is that I always had nightmares about falling - maybe this book started them. The sense of peril in this story is the strongest I ever came across in all of Enid's books. I thought they were truly doomed until that magic moment......
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Another thing I noticed reading this is that I felt so sleepy reading it. The sense of relaxation as the children fall asleep resting their heads against the donkeys whilst Jack and the Shepherd try to chat in Welsh was overpowering.
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As a child (before discovering EB) I had a recurring nightmare: my bed went with high speed through our flat. Somehow there was an open elevator shaft in which I fell laying inside my bed.Francis wrote:The strange thing is that I always had nightmares about falling - maybe this book started them. The sense of peril in this story is the strongest I ever came across in all of Enid's books. I thought they were truly doomed until that magic moment......
I never found out about the end of the dream, the dream always stopped at the exact moment when I fell with the bed into the shaft.
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Have just read the rockingdown and riloby fair mysterys and rubadub (I think!) Is next
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Don't forget Ring 'O Bells, Hayleymoomin. It comes before Rubadub.
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I'm telling lies I actually read ring o bells and then riloby fair..rubadub is next (I think!!!) Have them in a pile on my bookcase in story order!
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should be Rilloby Fair, then Ring O'Bells, then Rubadub.
Or Rilloby Fair, then Ring O'Bells, then Rawlins' Reach, then Rubadub!!!
Or Rilloby Fair, then Ring O'Bells, then Rawlins' Reach, then Rubadub!!!
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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