If mumsnetters were all Enid Blyton characters....

[welliemum]

.... what would we post about?

Chat: My children have just been kidnapped again by international jewellery thieves. I do hope they are rescued in time for tea.

Behaviour/development: My daughter is athletic, assertive and extremely capable at everything she sets her hand to. I am so worried about her. How can I get her to wear a dress and simper like her darling cousin Anne?

Style: I have a super hat. It's blue with a bell on top. I'm thinking of teaming this with a red jumper and a yellow scarf, any thoughts?

[Greensleeves]

that review fails to mention Kiki the parrot

[DarrellRivers]

Ah yes Smellisande

[Greensleeves]

LOL yes, it was awful wasn't it

I can think of a few MNers who are just like her

[Dior]

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[DrMarthaMcMoo]

MIL dug out some of dh's old Famous Five books for ds1 a couple of years ago and I had to do some swift improvisation in places when I was reading them to him. One I remember was about the children hiding in a railway tunnel and getting covered in soot - they were "black as n......" I was quite shocked - this was a copy from the mid 70s, so not that old really.

[Blandmum]

Shit greesleeves, I can't belive that I remembered that. To think there is a part of my brain that can't do bloody useful things like remember where I put my car keys, because it is busy remembering that some one was cruelly called Smellisande in and E blyton book. FFS!

[Greensleeves]

That was the Five-Find-Outers

I loved those books until I read the one where Mr Goon has his dim nephew Ern to stay and ends up caning him and making him cry. It was quite frightening really

I say again, she had a problem.

[Whizzz]

And the Children of Cherry Tree farm - where the kids made friends with a strange country bumpkin who told them all about nature!
I can still remember how to identify a stoat thanks to that book !

[Blandmum]

Dio, the five findouters and dog series. Had a comic policeman call PC Goon

[Dior]

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[DarrellRivers]

Everytime that Kirrin Island is mentioned I think of xenia, maybe her children all disappear on a rowing boat in the school hols and have jolly adventures

[Blandmum]

Relationships

I'm very happy living with big ears, but I think he keeps going to Goblin parties. What should I do?

[Dior]

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[welliemum]

PMSL at MB - the Queen of MN "alternative universe" threads.

[welliemum]

Special Needs: What is the wittiest thing your children have said to a SN child recently?

[nikkie]

Isn't it Rick not Dick in the Faraway tree now?

[Dior]

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[idlemum]

Remember enjoying EB in the 1960's but then discovered the wonderful Malcolm Saville's 'Lone-Pine 5' adventures. Way better ! Mind you I would probably discover if I read them again with my dd that they are very un-pc too.

[DarrellRivers]

Ohh yes Lone pine 5, i read a few of those too, but still loved EB the most
We did a sponsored read at school when I was 10 and everyone else read 5 or 6 book and I read 40 or so I think
I don't think i spoke or had any friends but I was allowed to get 9 books out of the library a week , as it was the only way to keep me quiet

[Whizzz]

had to Google to find out the name of the country bloke !! Tammylan !?