Future lives of minor characters in the books

[Daisy]

Well, that's one interpretation of the picture, I guess!

[Stephen]

I may have mentioned on other threads that I've been regularly writing short stories since my teens. Mostly sci-fi, fantasy and horror, but I have done the occasional homage to Enid Blyton. There was one I did a few years ago, set in the present day in which Barney and Diana are indeed married. They've come to see their granddaughter who works in a garden centre that just so happens to have been built on the site of the prison where Mr Marvel was executed for treason decades earlier. And the evil spirits of the dead want revenge...

There was another one I did, also set in the present day which was quite Blytonesque to start with because it involved Gypsies on a cursed moorland. I can't remember the full details, but there was a pub landlord, and I had mentally visualised and based him on Julian - but Julian from the 1970s television series. Maybe I read it on here, but was/is Marcus Harris a pub landlord? Because it's just the sort of thing I could imagine his character doing now!

[Anita Bensoussane]

Your story about Barney and Diana's granddaughter sounds like a unique and very creative take on things, Stephen!

[Stephen]

Thanks, Anita!

[John Pickup]

I'm not interested in the future lives of any of the characters, whether minor or major. I want to remember them as they are in the books, as Enid created them.

[Moonraker]

Yes, I am often bemused that people seem to think these wonderful characters continued living after the books ended - as if they were real people! Like you, John, they are real people to me, but in a parallel universe. I see on enidblyton.net, someone wanted to know who now owned Kiki 'Trent', and if she would be able to buy her!