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Please can anyone tell me the book/story in which one of the children found a plant which he referred to as "a beastly alien" and destroyed it?
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Doesn't ring any bells I'm afraid. Perhaps somebody else will know it.
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Because he's being polite and not ignoring the thread!Farwa wrote:Then why are you posting?
Fraid nothing springs to my mind either. Are you sure it was a Blyton book?
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Personally - how the plant is referred to as a 'beastly alien' doesn't seem quite Blytonish to me.
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It is rude to ignore people, Farwa. Almost as rude as your question. As nobody had replied, John was just being courteous in acknowledging the query.Farwa wrote:Then why are you posting?
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Thank you Julie and Nigel. I was indeed being polite. The person asking is new to our forums and it would have been dreadful to ignore them simply because nobody knows the answer to their question.
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Yes,I too thought you were being polite John.Maybe it's simply a misunderstanding.
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Agreed wholeheartedly!Moonraker wrote:It is rude to ignore people.Farwa wrote:Then why are you posting?
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I see - I'm sorry if I seemed rude, but I thought that it was a bit unpleasant if half the people on this site make an entire page of answers which just say that that they don't know - and not even a question with it! But I guess it isn't, then.Lucky Star wrote:Thank you Julie and Nigel. I was indeed being polite. The person asking is new to our forums and it would have been dreadful to ignore them simply because nobody knows the answer to their question.
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Praise be to the other half of this site who ignored the original question whether they knew the answer or not - you have something worth its weight in gold,Farwa's approval....
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Pete, I think you might have dropped this...
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More likely totally bemused!
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