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.

Biff and chip's parents are very very lucky, when the key glows they know its time to crack open a bottle of red, get the cheese and crackers on the table and prepare for an evening of bliss, safe in the knowledge that their children will be annoying a whole load of parents with their annoying, boring story telling.

We read one about a trip to London that had a pic of M Thatcher in a car..on the day she died. Spooky.

Why aren't biff, Chip and kipper ever naughty? Why doesn't Floppy have the shits all over the kitchen floor. And mum shout at them until she's lost her voice? Or have to ask them to do something, 15 times, every day.

Oh. That's just me then?

Ooh I just remembered that story where gran takes the children to London, if I remember rightly they go in her sports car, but some of their friends go to and I remember thinking how did they all fit in the car??

I love The Magic key Stories! I don't thinkthey areimaginary - they bringbacktiny thingswith them. Oh crap Ithinkmy spacebar is giving up:(

Biff and Chip are twins??!!

The caretaker is the illustrator, no?

Biff is short for Elizabeth (ill-iz-a-biff see?)
knows one of the editors

How Kipper (Christopher) managed to get Chip from David, that's the real mystery.

DS1 is in reception and we've been reading the magic key ones for a couple of weeks - he loves them!

At least it is a variation on them endlessly chasing Floppy around and who is in which class at school

The twins have just started on the biff chip Wilma and floppy books ..... for some reason it didn't even occur to me they would have to read them as well DD finished them last year :(

The worst torture is going into school as a helper and sitting for 2 hours listerning to 20= yr one children ( another teacher poached me :) reading 1/2 a dozen pages of so of only 3 books and never knowing how they bloody ended

Is Biff not a nn for Elizabeth?

DD1 is off these books now, thank God! I was losing the will to live.

Sorry Jude, I see you've already said about Elizabeth. I missed the second page!

Kim, boast here from ancient teacher..... I've been reading them from the day they arrived in pristine condition, still reading them now on supply. Just wish I'd got in there first and written them, would be very wealthy by now. It's a bit sad when I hear a teacher in one of my schools asking about a particular book she can't find or rember and someone says ask storynanny she'll know!

... But never got to read time chronicles as I only teach infants. Might have to sneakily search them out next time I'm in a primary school. I know how to live!

I very often write in dds reading diary "please, no more Biffy, Chipper Flippy books". Alas. they keep on coming.

I thought I'd slipped into a temporal time zone or something when DS brought the first magic key book home. And is it just me, or is finding a doll's house in a secret room with little tiny dolls of YOURSELVES, not seriously freaking scary stuff?

I'm liking a little bit of unintentional stealth boasting on this thread too... like DS is in reception and we're reading the magic key books

Magic key, you say?! I am really looking forward to DS1 (reception)getting his next ORT book now. And there was me thinking they were as dull as dishwater. Will it be tonight that a book comes home with a story of a magic key? I do hope so! He has just started stage 4. How long do I have to wait?!

Yes it is a bit creepy actually when you think about the dolls house isnt it farewell I would have run from the house screaming and then posted on Mumsnet do you think my house is haunted!

My boys read the books but I also am a reading volunteer in another school so only get to hear bits of stories! I want to know what happens :o

I'm not even going to tell you how old DS2 was when he read the time chronicle series.

My kids were reading these 14 years ago. I've been reading support in a primary school for 10 years.

So many years of reading these books over and over again.

Plus our school hasn't got any of the new ones, so these are very old ones.

My daughter is in year one and they have a reading book called 'Mums diet' the family are all banned from cake and have to eat salad but in the end they decide to eat the cake and they love her cuddly. What is kipper short for!

In addition my DD in nursery has been started on the Biff etc books so I can't escape the little bastards