Adult party planning inspiration needed (Enid Blyton 'Secret 7' theme)

[midnightmoon8]

A group of pals and I are all reaching a milestone birthday and we are having a few days away in a holiday cottage. We call ourselves 'the secret 7' (enid Blyton) because there are 7 of us - we have a great time together & enjoy our holiday adventures. We're a mix of couples and singles. I am planning to get to the holiday cottage a couple of hours before everyone else and I want to set up the dinner table with little treats, games, etc around the secret 7 theme. If anyone can offer me any ideas or inspiration it would be gratefully received!

They made a drink with putting blackberry jam into a flask of hot water and shaking it in one book.
I remember because me and dsis tried it. it was revolting

Because Scamper accompanied them on most of their adventures. He was Peter and Janet's father's sheepdog. otherwise who can you blame when a chocolate biscuit goes astray or a candle gets knocked over?

don`t forget the sardines

They made a drink with putting blackberry jam into a flask of hot water and shaking it in one book.

Oh my God, that has just given me the most intense flashback to being about eight. Proust's madeleine is nothing to it!

He was Peter and Janet's father's sheepdog.

I'm sure he was a golden spaniel.

Timmy, of the Famous Five, looked more like a sheep dog, although he was actually a mongrel.

Also pretty sure Scamper was a golden cocker spaniel.

Timmy was a collie?

According to this, Border Collie in one TV series, mongrel in the books and another TV series.

famous5.fandom.com/wiki/Timmy

Berta, an American trying to evade kidnap, dismissed Timmy as "only a mongrel", unlike Sally, her Pedigree poodle, which caused one of George's famous scowls.

'High tea' of sandwiches with potted meat, fruit cake, cherry buns and chocolate biscuits. And ginger beer (or was that Famous Five?)

Toffees, bread with black currant jam.

Notebooks to write down 'clues'

Password to get in

All the boys get to go off and have adventures, the girls have to stay at home and keep house 🙄

Envious
#just saying

Me too

Envious

Me too

Suzie and Binky are on the thread.

God this sounds nauseating

Berta, an American trying to evade kidnap, dismissed Timmy as "only a mongrel", unlike Sally, her Pedigree poodle, which caused one of George's famous scowls

Blyton didn't write that one, though -- it's one of the bland fill-ins. And by bland I mean that it restricts itself to mildly mocking American accents, rather than boiling over with superstitious black men who roll their eyes all the time, girls who naturally prefer making caves 'homey' to adventures, helpful gypsy children who never wash, currant-eyed Welsh people who say 'Look you' all the time, French schoolgirls with no sense of honour, demented foreign criminals/hidden princes who like 'cream and pigmeat', working-class children who eat in the kitchen and whose manners and morals the middle-class kids get to tick off all the time, and PC Plods who need to be put firmly in their place by a bunch of children who report directly to the Chief Inspector.

Why yes, I am reading Blyton with my seven year old.

I didn't know that. Which ones did she not write? I thought she wrote all the original 15 SS and 21 FF.

Are you need any escape room places? Would be nice to all have to work on a mystery to solve.

Eat everything out of doors because “food always tastes better out of doors”.

And see if you can find some carnival folk to be suspicious of.

(I may be getting confused with the famous five).

Write notes to each other in invisible ink ,I think lemons juice is supposed to be invisible ink and then heat up the paper to see the message ,I remember trying this once and it sort of worked ,but there will have to be a mystery to solve and clues to find along the way .

Blyton didn't write that one, though -- it's one of the bland fill-ins. Yes she did

It's number 14, called Five have plenty of Fun.
It wasn't filmed in the 70s TV version because they thought it was a bit similar (and they also didn't film no 1 because they couldn't get the rights to it)

The fill ins were written by Claud Somethingor other, originally in French I think. They are universally rubbish and don't even really keep in character.