Welcome Sarah, sorry to hear about your father.

Lovely to hear about you acting out the scripts with your friends, sounds like fun.

I remember watching the series when it was on TV.

I've just finished one of the Mr Twiddle books. My brother had one as a child and I used to enjoy hearing our mother reading it to him. This I adifferent one, and I don't think I'd read it before. It was fairly typical of the exploits of Mr Twiddle and as well as enjoying all the stories I couldn't ...

I'm currently reading Journal 42. By the time this journal was issued, I had finally joined the forums, but don't think I'd subscribed to the journals yet. I know I asked for the subscription for a birthday present for a year or two, and eventually dug deep into the coffers and paid for it myself. ;...

I'm currently reading Bob Dixon's two books for research for an essay. I've also got David Rudd's book ready to give counterpoints to Bob's comments. I'm not sure if Bob's books can be truly classed as 'academic' works, but I did spot what appears to be a flaw. He states that there are 22 Famous Fiv...

[ Eliot was an extraordinary writer. I've now read Silas Marner , Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss and loved them all although she is occasionally a bit too "cerebral" for me. I need a bigger brain for her books. :lol: I feel like that with many other authors. :) I'm currently dippin...

It was a residential street that I know well, but I can't recall there ever having been a bin in it. The closest ones would be on the main road at the bus stops a minute's walk away. I think in general though there are less bins about as people set fire to them from time to time. Plus of course ther...

I've just been reading some on-line safety tips regarding games for young children. It's a resource that is recommended by schools, so ought to be pretty good. One section talks about educational games to teach children basic maths which feature "they're" favourite characters. Hmm, looks l...

I'm not sure 'annoyed' is the best description of how I felt, maybe angry, flabbergasted, speechless, upset...... I was recently walking down a local street, when a car pulled up onto the pavement and the driver got out. I noticed it, firstly because the car was almost completely on the pavement, an...

Ouch Bertie, your poor brother, that sounds awful.

Good point Bertie about Jo in the FF. I think perhaps I'm only noticing the class attitude nowadays as I'm on a course which has covered the topic, so I'm more aware of it. As you say, it seemed to be the accepted 'norm' at the time these books were written. I'm currently reading The Listerdale Myst...

I've just finished reading this book. I'd read it once before, but had forgotten pretty much all of it, apart from the notes turning up in odd places, and Mrs. Totteville's skirts swishing angrily! I found it an odd FFO book. The plot I thought was actually quite good, but it seemed as if it was mos...

Definitely think you've got yourself a bargain there Pete.

The booklet looks very interesting.

I'm currently reading The Mystery of the Strange Messages. I've only read the book once before, and so can't remember much about it. On the whole I don't enjoy the FFO books as much as the other major Enid Blyton series, but I am enjoying this book - I think I can remember who the writer of the note...

My family makes me happy.

At the weekend we held a small party for my mother's 80th birthday party. It's not often we get the opportunity to all be together.

I love magnolia trees. I used to annoy my children when they were little, as whenever I passed one, I'd comment on how much I like them. :) There was a particularly lovely one just around the corner to my house, but sadly when new people moved in, they cut it down. I do understand why they did it th...