Is this booklet easy to buy?

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You make a good point, Wolfgang, as it is possible for someone who posts almost exclusively on the Games threads to get a large post count and something like 'Change a Letter' requires little or no knowledge or skill.

There is something slightly dodgy about our security set up at the moment as I have had to delete over 30 people trying to register over the past week or two. They often have harmless sounding names, but as soon as I look at their email addresses they are almost certainly potential spammers and at least half of them come from Russia!
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I had problems logging into the 'secret passage' today...tried four or five times and it wouldn't let me in...then I realised I was using the password from Journal 61!!! :oops: :lol:
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Fiona1986 wrote:I travelled 500 miles for a meet up a few years ago... and Lenoir flew from South Africa to be there too ;)
I remember meeting Ming in 2007 at an Enid Blyton Society Day. She had 'flown' on her own, aged twelve, from Bangladesh.

For those who have difficulty in finding their way around the website, here is a link to the 2007 'Day'.
IceMaiden wrote:If I can though I would love to join and subscribe, however I haven't got any money spare now until the end of the month, can I pay then? Or is there a set date?
Again, here is a link explaining how to subscribe to the Journal.
Tony wrote:I don't have one either - but I have never subscribed so I am probably not entitled to one!
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The picnic area doesn't look as nice as when we all used to go to Dinton Pastures! :lol:

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My word is it ten years already since that day? I remember it with crystal clarity. It had rained quite heavily and we had immense trouble finding a picnic spot. We sort of wandered around for ages lugging the picnic basket behind us until we eventually gave up and just sat down in a small muddy clearing in the woods. That was my first EBS Day, I still have all my programmes. :D
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I have all my programmes too, John. And loved each of the Days I went too.

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Me too, Julie. Happy days! :D
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I can't remember which Day was my first...maybe 2004 or perhaps before that. I know my last one was 2008. :-D
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My files tell all, Rob, 2002 was your first EB Day, the same as Anita. According to my files you also bought tickets for 2009 but perhaps you couldn't make it.
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Thanks Tony. Yes - I got the year wrong - 2009 was my last EB Day. It was the year my mom died (in the July) and just after the EB Day she was diagnosed with cancer.

So I went to 8 EB Days! I was very shy though and I didn't mix as much as I would have these days! :oops:
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Rob Houghton wrote: Yes, but the Journal, and being a member of The Enid Blyton Society has nothing whatsoever to do with the website! The website is a way of promoting the Society, but the Society was around for years before the website. The fact that some things can't be accessed on the website unless you're a Society Member is supposed to encourage people to join and become members. You don't 'earn' anything extra by being a long term contributor to the forums, etc.

The Enid Blyton Society would still exist (and indeed, did exist!) without the website. :-D
That's where I've gone wrong then, I thought the Society was the website! I certainly didn't know it has been around since before the website either. Out of interest, where would someone have got the information about the Society and how to join it before here was set up then? As if I had known it existed I'd have joined years ago but I've never seen a mention of it in anything.
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Actually I wouldn't make the number of posts the criterion then, but the number of qualified posts. How do you want to evaluate that?
If just the number was the criterion, the forum would be flooded with spam posts just to increase the post count. That's always something that put me off forums - when people posted just to have posted, distracting people from the important posts and stealing their time this way.
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Julie2owlsdene wrote:The picnic area doesn't look as nice as when we all used to go to Dinton Pastures! :lol:
Some of us used to go to two different parts of Dinton Pastures... :oops:
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:lol: You got there in the end, Nigel, so no worries there, old friend.

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Wonderful memories, Nigel and Julie. :D
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I always say you can't beat a good mystery tour. :D
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