Journal 59

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I would have bought The Llewellyn Jewel Mystery if the dustwrapper had been in better condition.
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I'm intrigued by the cover of The Black Dog Mystery... is that PC Goon in plain clothes?? :mrgreen:
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Robert Houghton wrote:Im thinking the Junior Mystery series would be a great set of books to collect! :D
Great minds think alike, Rob, (or fools seldom differ - whichever one you prefer!) as I have just bought the two Wanderlust Brown books on ebay!! Not the 'South' that you linked though (nice copy), I went for the £4 copy and half expected that you might outbid me! 'Introducing' was a buy it now.

As you rightly say, none of these books from the 40s and 50s are cheap now, the four Junior Mysteries that I have cost me a total of £6, but sadly those days are gone.
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Tony Summerfield wrote:
Robert Houghton wrote:Im thinking the Junior Mystery series would be a great set of books to collect! :D
Great minds think alike, Rob, (or fools seldom differ - whichever one you prefer!) as I have just bought the two Wanderlust Brown books on ebay!! Not the 'South' that you linked though (nice copy), I went for the £4 copy and half expected that you might outbid me!
No - but I have just bought 'The Golden Eagle Mystery' with DW for £4.42 and free postage. :-D
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I have just being trying to sort out my Collins Junior Mystery Series in preparation for the arrival of new members and I made an amazing discovery. The two books above, neither of which I have read yet, both have the name of the original owner inside in blue biro. They belonged to Fred Clampitt who wrote about his connection with Enid Blyton in Journals 41 and 42, and then put his entire Blyton Collection of letters and postcards into auction in Shrewsbury. I still have a file of the auction results.

I didn't buy these two books from him as they were already in my collection about 15 years before my first contact with him, but I love coincidences!
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me too! Wow! That's amazing! :D

To throw this completely off topic, when I was researching my mom's family history, looking at census' from 1841 - 1880 I discovered that her grand father and grand mother had resided in the same street and in the same yard of houses in Birmingham - in fact next door to each other, but twenty years apart! :D

I will be looking out for old books owned by Fred Clampitt from now on! :lol:
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John Pickup wrote: I believe J. J. Farjeon who ... wrote whodunnits in the 1930's or 40's ...recently had his work republished under the British Classic Crime series. I believe Nigel has read a couple of them recently.
He has indeed. I enjoyed them, too.

What an amazing coincidence, Tony.
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Yes! My Journal finally arrived about two days ago. I thoroughly enjoyed the entire journal as always, and a few articles in particular caught my interest. Tales Of Toyland, for one, sounds delightful. I really wish I could get my hands on it! I enjoyed Nick's article about the filming of the Castle Of Adventure in both this Journal and the previous one, and I can't wait for the next part. I would love to see it, but again, it's just wishful thinking I suppose.
The best part was EB's piece on the March winds. For one thing it is written so beautifully, and for the other, there's no wind about right now over here, so that passage felt extra special!
I enjoyed the entire Journal overall immensely, and I'm eagerly awaiting the next one. :D
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Darrell71 wrote: The best part was EB's piece on the March winds. For one thing it is written so beautifully, and for the other, there's no wind about right now over here, so that passage felt extra special! :D
I agree - its a great piece of descriptive writing - so easy to visualise!

We have a very windy and rainy March day here today!
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In the immortal words of Noddy:

"Oh Wind, you're very rough today,
You blow the clouds along;
You puff my chimney-smoke away
And sing a windy song..."

Can anyone remember the rest — it's a fair while since I last had any Noddy books to hand! :wink:

Back on topic, that IS such a wonderful descriptive piece from Enid, and really captures her imagination and sense of fun, even as a "sedate, grown-up person". I'm afraid I can't share her enthusiasm for the mad March wind, though — I hate having my hair blown around!!
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Just off the top of my head, of course (I didn't look it up in my 'Noddy's Own Nursery Rhymes' book! ;-) )

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Oh wind you're very rough today,
You blow the clouds along,
You puff my chimney smoke away,
And sing a windy song.
You shake the washing to and fro,
You make me dance and sing,
You take my little bell and blow
To make it jingle-jing!
Oh it is a happy thing
To have a little bell to ring!

:lol:
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
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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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I think you left out a "Jingle-jingle-jingle-jing!" between the 8th and 9th lines there, Rob! :wink: :D
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Darrell71 wrote: I would love to see it, but again, it's just wishful thinking I suppose.
I seem to recall that it used to be on Youtube. Naturally you can only access it properly if your internet connection is okay.
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Quite right.

Here is a link to the first episode:

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Wow! I know what I'm gonna be doing for the next hour! Thanks guys! :D
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