To wonder if Biff, Chip and Kippers mum and dad.....

[LittleMissGerardButlerfan]

Ever wonder or notice the kids have disappeared when the magic key begins to glow?

yes I know you probably don't give a shit but I'm putting off doing the cleaning.

And how did they decide on those names?

I think Biff is really called Barbara and Chip is Christopher ?

Nah, It's like in where the wild things are and he comes back from his adventures and his tea is still warm. Or Narnia.

It's a timeslip. Not gone here long enough to even register they've been away.

Magic key, you say?

My DC1 is on Reception so we are still enjoying the delights of Floppy the Naughty Dog and (wait for it) The Water Butt.

Now a magic key sounds more like it!

Ah the memories! I forgot all about them.

Poppy I urge you not to get your hopes up.

On another point why hasn't the very ancient Mrs May been pensioned off?

Bet they are just glad to see the back of them for a bit. Now then - where do i get a magic key for my little horrors to have adventures with?

And I noticed that the caretaker at the school also has other jobs, bit like Miss Rabbit in Peppa pig!!

At least the punctuation seems to have improved in the new editions. It used to drive me mad when there were no question marks!! not that I'm sad

Little Miss - the caretaker pops up everywhere. I have seen him as a Viking and a Merry Man with Robin Hood but he can most often be spotted lurking in the bushes in parks - slightly worrying for an off duty school caretaker don't you think

Glad we have moved on although the next books we get also seem very dull and DCs seem to be reading for the sake of getting through the scheme at the moment.

I didn't mind the magic key stories. They get even more exciting later on when there are some time-travelling villains who tried to assassinate Julius Caesar, assassinate QE1 (not at the same time), and steal the Enigma machine at Bletchley Park (not at the same time).

Or maybe that's another set of children. Can't remember...

There is a reason the caretaker pops up everywhere Wait until you get to the Time Chronicle (?) ones to be revealed!

Am I making it up but was Gran having tea with Queen Victoria when the children went on a Victorian magic key adventure?

Coming to the end of reception now and have realised we are about to start the magic key ones - mainly because Biff looked at her night stand and "the key" was glowing.

Was saved by by my mumsnet habit.

I love the fact our school gives us random books as long as they are in the same band.

Yes! The Time Chronicles! We liked those. Are we odd?

We used to have Story Street ones which no one I know has ever heard of. They were hilarious. One of them featured peanut butter omelette.

They are better than the awful x-bot/ shrinking children series ...

Spare me a thought. Oldest is 23 did the books x4 kids.

TA I'm reception class and doing the fucking books again.

Silverlace that's creepy, I haven't noticed him in bushes but shall be looking out for him now

Mrs.May has a useful phrase in one of the books . . ."it's the weather.." My colleague and I adopted it to use when children were a bit "wild" because of the wind!

I think the adventures are supposed to be imaginery

Whaaaaat you mean they aren't true stories

Barbara! I suppose all Barbaras were children once!

Used to love reading those books when son in primary school