Random words to Blyton Worlds

[Boodi 2]

Thanks Bertie!

I am glad that I was (sort of) on the right track and not having a senior moment!

Next word: Pudding

[Anita Bensoussane]

In Six Cousins at Mistletoe Farm, the six children make a wish as they stir the ingredients for the Christmas pudding.

Next word: dairy

[Boodi 2]

In "The Mystery of the Vanished Prince" the five find-outers go to the DAIRY for ice creams.

Next word: Notebook

[Boatbuilder]

In the 'Findouters' mysteries, P.C.Goon regularly produced his notebook.

Next word: Chauffeur

[Bertie]

In Mystery of the Burnt Cottage, Mr Hick's chauffeur picks him up at the station after he'd, supposedly, travelled back from London.

Next word: Tins

[Courtenay]

In any number of Enid's adventure stories, the children while out camping or exploring (or trapped in the Valley of Adventure) eat food from tins. Tinned tongue is such a common delicacy in Blyton books (or so it seemed when I was little) that it's still a catchphrase in my family to this day whenever anyone brings up the topic of Enid Blyton — "Tinned tongue and ginger beer!!"

Next word: Nest

[Anita Bensoussane]

In the story 'Andrew's Robin', some robins build a nest in an old saucepan.

Next word: curtains

[Boodi 2]

In "Five Go To Smugglers' Top" the boys watch from behind curtains as the signaller (Block) passes by.

Next word: painting

[Bertie]

Normally I'd go with a FFO reference, but Banshee Towers springs to mind and I try to mostly ignore that book so I'll go with the painting in The Secret of Moon Castle that the women make hiss and the eyes glow.

Next word: Handkerchief

[Courtenay]

In Disappearing Cat, Pip and Bets sneak sausages from the breakfast table and wrap them in their handkerchiefs to take them to Luke when he's hiding out in the summer house. We're informed that Pip used a clean handkerchief for this, but in Bets' case, "her handkerchief was not so clean!"

Next word: Swan

[Anita Bensoussane]

In The Boy Next Door, the children do up an old house-boat called the Black Swan.

Next word: rose

[Boodi 2]

Does Aunt Rose, the mother of Cyril, Melisande amd Roddy in the Six Cousins books qualify?
If so, the next word is: Silky

[Anita Bensoussane]

Yes, Aunt Rose is a good choice! Feel free to interpret the words how you like.

Silky lives in the Faraway Tree and makes Pop Biscuits, Google Buns and Toffee Shocks.

Next word: pluck

[Bertie]

In The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat, when Fatty suggests Pippin works with them to solve the case, he sizes Fatty up and thinks: "Brains? Yes. Character? Plenty! Cheek? Too much. Pluck? Any amount?"

Next word: Cough

[Courtenay]

A mysterious, deep-throated cough is heard at each of the scenes of thefts by the Invisible Thief in, well, The Mystery of the Invisible Thief...

Next word: Silver