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- 22 May 2021, 09:57
- Forum: Blyton On TV
- Topic: TV locations for the Famous Five series
- Replies: 3299
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Re: TV locations for the Famous Five series
Hi everyone Back after a while..and was great to see the location snaps. I am more familiar with the 90s series and really like the snaps posted by Tim. Thanks. The Corfe Common thread I have seen earlier but missing now. Is it on a different topic? I had planned a trip to Dorset and Devon before th...
- 09 Sep 2020, 20:13
- Forum: The Books
- Topic: Famous Five books: possible Dorset inspirations
- Replies: 65
- Views: 3049
Re: Famous Five books: possible Dorset inspirations
That is really interesting William. I didnot know there was a river called the Corfe. I was based in Swanage and took the steam train to Corfe. It did stop then, so maybe you took a different train. It went on to Norden I think. I visited the castle but couldn't explore more as there was a thunderst...
- 05 Sep 2020, 21:27
- Forum: The Books
- Topic: Famous Five books: possible Dorset inspirations
- Replies: 65
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Re: Famous Five books: possible Dorset inspirations
Thanks so much Timv for these pictures. I travelled to this area a few years ago, and was planning to do so again this year..but the pandemic has put paid to the plans. It is fascinating to read about the Secret Trail inspiration likely to be Corfe Common. I watched the 90s series recently and was w...
- 30 Aug 2020, 20:51
- Forum: Blyton On TV
- Topic: TV locations for the Famous Five series
- Replies: 3299
- Views: 214716
Re: TV locations for the Famous Five series
Thanks number 6! The list at the beginning doesn't indicate Secret Trail so I will await enlightenment in this area@
By the way your snaps of the Exbury and other locations for the 70s series are lovely. Thanks for them.
By the way your snaps of the Exbury and other locations for the 70s series are lovely. Thanks for them.
- 30 Aug 2020, 17:30
- Forum: Blyton On TV
- Topic: TV locations for the Famous Five series
- Replies: 3299
- Views: 214716
Re: TV locations for the Famous Five series
While re watching the 90s Five series I was wondering where Five on a Secret Trail was filmed? Any ideas?
- 25 Aug 2020, 13:35
- Forum: General Natter
- Topic: R.I.P Trini Lopez
- Replies: 7
- Views: 477
Re: R.I.P Trini Lopez
Yes agree totally..Trini had a happy cheerful voice which gave a feel good vibe to anyone who heard and watched him..that's what I saw in the clip too. He lives on in his music, but it is so sad to think that Pat Boone and Tony Bennet are the only ones remaining with us of broadly the same genre now..
- 24 Aug 2020, 13:22
- Forum: General Natter
- Topic: R.I.P Trini Lopez
- Replies: 7
- Views: 477
Re: R.I.P Trini Lopez
These are really nice clips ☺️ thanks. Amused to see the oldies doing the " twist" better than the lost young ones! These must be pre Covid? I am not a great fan of 60s and after music anymore but make exceptions for some like Trini. He had a great voice and could do up -tempo as well as s...
- 23 Aug 2020, 17:59
- Forum: General Natter
- Topic: R.I.P Trini Lopez
- Replies: 7
- Views: 477
Re: R.I.P Trini Lopez
Saddened to hear of the demise of Trini Lopez. He was very much a fixture of my childhood of the seventies. Constantly played on the radio were Lemon Tree, This Land is your land, Shame and Scandal in the family. The latter was a gently risque song which had many adults in splits. I still have an ol...
- 04 Aug 2020, 18:22
- Forum: General Natter
- Topic: General Natter Room
- Replies: 11266
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Re: General Natter Room
A lovely article! I still use the Burma teak furniture my grandparents bought in what was then British India in the 1930s! We also still live in the home they built, and my office- a former colonial mansion has antique items of the British Indian Railways of the 19th century! I hope this wonderful m...
- 26 Jul 2020, 18:38
- Forum: The Books
- Topic: Words you first learnt in a Blyton book!
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4740
Re: Words you first learnt in a Blyton book!
I have to say I learned the names of flowers like celandines, dandelions, buttercups which never grew in India..and food like brawn and tongue which we didn't eat either! Thanks to EB my vocabulary was exposed to these novelties.
- 25 Jul 2020, 20:39
- Forum: The Author
- Topic: Thoughts after re-reading A Childhood at Green Hedges
- Replies: 176
- Views: 25780
Re: Thoughts after re-reading A Childhood at Green Hedges
I did not know that Imogen has passed away.When was this?
- 03 Jul 2020, 19:45
- Forum: Blyton On TV
- Topic: TV locations for the Famous Five series
- Replies: 3299
- Views: 214716
Re: TV locations for the Famous Five series
Idyllic pictures of the caves..I don't know when I can ever visit Dorset again..so looking at these is so nice..Thanks number6.
I wonder if these were also the inspiration for the cave in Five Run Away Together.
I wonder if these were also the inspiration for the cave in Five Run Away Together.
- 23 Jun 2020, 17:56
- Forum: General Natter
- Topic: RIP Vera Lynn
- Replies: 10
- Views: 521
Re: RIP Vera Lynn
A really sad loss..She was such an outstanding singer and a beacon of hope in dark days..also a kind and dutiful person who did so much for the ordinary people..RIP Dame Vera..they simply do not make persons like you anymore...
- 20 Jun 2020, 09:09
- Forum: The Books
- Topic: Saucepan Man's Rhymes in Audiobooks
- Replies: 0
- Views: 606
Saucepan Man's Rhymes in Audiobooks
Some of the audiobooks I have been hearing seem to have changed the saucepan man's songs in The Faraway Tree series. Is there any recent audio version of the older editions of this series?
Re: Revision
Irritating for the latter. Splendid by delightful etc. Using the same jargon as our PC brigade I should feel slighted as these changes are specific to Egmont's for sale only in India edition, presuming perhaps we are no longer conversant with the ways of Enid's Britain!!