peppercricket
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Batley Townswoman's Guild presents the Battle of Pearl Harbour
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Post by peppercricket on May 11, 2020 9:59:56 GMT
Did they have lashings of ginger beer?!
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Post by janetandjohn on May 11, 2020 16:54:36 GMT
Finished The Borrowers - Mary Norton I have been enchanted - all over again! This was a re-read from when I was 10 and have kept it and all the others all those years (to buy the very last, Borrowers Avenged when it was published 30 years after the first). Having re-read this first in the series, I now know why I kept them. Lovely, lovely, lovely!
Little people who live hidden away, and "borrow" things from human beans. Watches, half a pair of scissors, matchboxes, handkerchiefs, safety pins, you name it, they borrow it. And Arriety, she has cuban dancers on her bedroom ceiling because her father made her bedroom from a borrowed cigar box.
Now, over the next few months, I am going to re-read the other four.
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peppercricket
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Batley Townswoman's Guild presents the Battle of Pearl Harbour
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Post by peppercricket on May 12, 2020 14:44:45 GMT
Really enjoyed Swallows and Amazons, what resourceful children, not a brat amongst them. Envied their stay on Wild Cat Island.
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Post by alison44 on May 15, 2020 9:47:23 GMT
Well, I have finished The Family From One End Street, and what a treat it was. I first read this when I was nine or ten, and while I remember enjoying it, I think much of the humour was probably lost on me. Absolutely loved it.
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Post by rosemary3 on May 15, 2020 11:46:05 GMT
Did they have lashings of ginger beer?!
My nieces (now age 27 and 22) love ginger beer, and I'm sure Enid Blyton is responsible!
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Post by janetandjohn on May 15, 2020 12:27:25 GMT
Well, I have finished The Family From One End Street, and what a treat it was. I first read this when I was nine or ten, and while I remember enjoying it, I think much of the humour was probably lost on me. Absolutely loved it. I think I may have to re-read this one, too! |
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Post by jen on May 17, 2020 12:41:54 GMT
forgot to share a funny quote from The Wind In The Willows:
"some cheese which laid down and cried" lol odd
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Post by janetandjohn on May 17, 2020 14:27:18 GMT
So - 14 days left for you to get your kids' classic read. And at the end of May, shall we do another?
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Post by alison44 on May 17, 2020 16:19:54 GMT
So - 14 days left for you to get your kids' classic read. And at the end of May, shall we do another?
Yes. Let's do that. I've already picked mine! |
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Post by janetandjohn on May 17, 2020 16:29:04 GMT
So - 14 days left for you to get your kids' classic read. And at the end of May, shall we do another?
Yes. Let's do that. I've already picked mine! Me too, Alison ( but don't tell anybody!!) |
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Post by jen on May 17, 2020 16:50:20 GMT
Definitely I'll read the second one I picked.  |
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Post by geminii on May 17, 2020 17:49:51 GMT
I'm in .....
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Post by evie1612 on May 18, 2020 14:16:24 GMT
Iām in for the next one.
Finished The Worst Witch and I loved it just as much as when I first read it thirty odd years ago. And I STILL want to enrol at Miss Cackles Academy š
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Post by belletinker on May 18, 2020 21:17:31 GMT
Ooh yes please - what shall I read next mmm
ETA I'm going to reread Heidi - Johanna Spyri
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Post by jen on May 20, 2020 11:41:10 GMT
Iām in for the next one. Finished The Worst Witch and I loved it just as much as when I first read it thirty odd years ago. And I STILL want to enrol at Miss Cackles Academy š I was tempted to read them again but wasn't sure. I'm going to read The Wizard Of Oz. |
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