Am I the only one who didn't know Malory wrote books....

[LadyTophamHatt]

lookey here

I thought she'd just made the name......

I know nothing!!

pmsl .. you're right .. you know nothing

god...the shame!

You're joking!?

pmsl how can you not know???

don't think I've ever read and enid blyton book in my life so maybe thats why.....

Enid Blyton wrote them.

Malory Towers was the name of the school! I haven't read them for ages, I wonder if they are still in my Mums loft.........? Would it be embarrassing to read them at my advanced age?

How could you not have read these when you were a child? Were you a 'St Clare's' person instead? Or just not into those sorts of stories? Darrell Rivers is the heroine, and there's also a 'DarrellRivers' on MN, who must also be a fan (unless it's MaloryTowers in disguise).

hilarious laugh at LTH. Where have you been?

Must be those hormones

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Penelope Cruz

Honestly...never read a single one.

reading wasn't my thing when I was little. I used to ride on the parcel rack of my brothers bike all summer, looking for newts at the motorbike track or my dad would give me an old thremostate out of his Gas board van to take apart.

If my mum was able to get a dress or skirt within 10 yards of me it was an achievement. I remeber crying hysterically once because she made me wear a dress to my own birthday party. I sulked for the entire party.

Reading really wasn't something that I did!!

oH BALLS

Worng thread !!!

arf

I loved Malory Towers books. DS1 has just discovered my collection of Famous Fives. By the way - who wrote the Milly Molly Mandy books - they weren't Enid Blyton were they?

you're not asking me are you megalegs???

Have you popped in from the " if you were Gay threda" NDP?

pmsl, megalegs

No LTH - you should read them though - they are excellent. (Malory Towers that is) You've got boys like me havn't you? They might not be interested in the adventures at a girls boarding school.

girls' (apostrophe alert - is that right oh pedantic ones?)

Milly Molly Mandy is by Joyce Lankester Brisley, MegaLegs - DD has them but I find them quite difficult to read to her, because the language is just a bit too archaic in places. Sweet, though.

Thanks Jackie NHJABS - I found the same with Beatrix Potter " Anna Maria said she thought that it was of no consequence; but she wished that Tom Kitten would hold his head still, as it disarranged the pastry." Yes, quite.

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I would like to say I've never read one either .. just in the spirit of solidarity

I liked boys books when I was a little girl .. I couldn't be doing with enid blyton

but I did know it existed

not the f word again

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I'm off.

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