Morning Simon, team, NNYM and super-spiffing blogsters,



First idea that comes into my head is something by FIVE. KEEP ON MOVIN'.



*Goes to get more coffee, puts thinking cap back on*

Morning Simon, Team and Blogpoppets



Grey and wet again here too, but at least the roads are quiet!



Off to find the thinking cap!



Tortie x

SWEET LITTLE MYSTERY - WET WET WET

Just thought



GO WILD IN THE COUNTRY - BOW WOW WOW

Good Morning Simon, Team and Blogpoppets,



Enjoyed the conversation with Nigel Havers yesterday, and had a chuckle over his recollections of Lembit!



I loved Enid Blyton, and still have some of her books today, much treasured, but will have to go and get some inspirationo, loving #4 suggestion Tortie!



Mcw x

FIVE GET OVER EXCITED - HOUSEMARTINS

Good Morning again





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Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush

Morning Simon



Fancy a stick of rock? I hear they have oodles of the stuff in Blackpool .....!?!? x



When you announced on the show the other evening that Beady Eye (ie Liam G) were to be guests soon, I did wonder if it would be a pre-record. Probably the safest route to be honest! I didn't really know much about Noel Gallagher untilk he started popping up (and latterly co-presenting!) the now sadly gone Russell Brand Radio Show on Saturday nights. If Liam's wit and natural charm are anything like Noel's, it will be a cracking interview. However, this is Liam we are talking about, so I await to hear the outcome whenever you choose to broadcast it!



(Loving the Beady Eye music though).



Famous Five eh? The first thing that springs to mind is



THESE ARE THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES - QUEEN



although I guess DON'T STOP ME NOW also fits the bill, and the Famous Five and Secret Seven always had a jolly good time!



Not sure where today will take me as I've had about an hour or so's sleep, thanks to a million things buzzing around my brain space. However, I've still packed my swimming stuff and intent fully to meet that gorgeous chap of mine in the pool at half five.



Spiffing what!?!?



Deevs

x

RUN RUNAWAY by SLADE ('NODDY' HOLDER!)

#9 I hope that you are taking lashings of lemonade with you, Deevs!

LOL Chickster! I think it might have been too much sugar that contributed to my sleepless night! I do however have some jolly juicy fresh strawberries by my side today!



x

MAGIC BUS by THE WHO

WE ARE DETECTIVE by THE THOMPSON TWINS

Morning all

WISHING WELL by FREE

morning all :-) wet n windy here in the Shire

ENID - Barenaked Ladies

'hey there Georgie girl' The Seekers

I don't think I'll put this in upper case, think it may earn me the HOIB!



Laughing Gnome by David Bowie.....



Wish I hadn't said that now!

Morning all - missed you! I'm on hols at the moment (at home) so not had access to computer at the right time nor been able to listen to the show. But this is fun, cos I work for the biggest publuisher of Enid Blyton in the English Language!!! SO I am going to go for



LIVING ON AN ISLAND - Status Quo.



Have a good day y'all!

THOSE WERE THE DAYS - MARY HOPKIN



THESE ARE THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES - QUEEN

'little children' Blly J Kramer & The Dakotas

#5 Morning mcw



I had all the Mallory Towers books and read and re-read them, but never 'got on' with the Famous Five or Secret Seven!

LIVING A BOY'S ADVENTURE TALE - A-Ha

'one for the children'The Stylistics

BALLAD OF THE ADVENTURERS - David Bowie

'caravan of love' The Isley brothers....Mr Trumpty had one.....

'old school yard' Cat Stevens

#24, Tortie, I was the other way around :)



I had and enjoyed all the Famous Five and Secret Seven books. I also remember reading the Mystery of... series.

MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR - The Beatles

IT'S A MYSTERY - Toyah

'the way we were' Gladys knight & The Pips

SOLVE MY MYSTERY - Oasis

#24 Tortie and #30 Alex, I enjoyed The Famous Five and Mallory Towers, but The Faraway Tree series was my absolute favourite, and both my children loved them, too.

I read some of the Famous Five and Secret Seven books, but my favourite Enid Blyton series were the Magic Faraway Tree books.



Mr Saucepan Head and Moonface!



Deevs

x

LOL Chickster ....... SNAP!



x

I was (and still am ) a huge Blyton fan, loved the FF and S7, but favourite were the Barney Mysteries (Rilloby Fair, Rubadub, Ratatat Mysteries etc), and closely followed by the Five Find-Outers and Dog stories. Mr Goon, the village policeman, was a caricature of Blyton's first husband!

Morning All,



It's a mystery - Toyah Wilcox

Stay (Faraway, so close) - U2



I remember reading Malory Towers but my favourite was the Faraway Tree Series. I was introduced to that series by my favourite teacher in Primary School, Mrs Buckley, god bless her!



A.

NEVER ENDING STORY by LIMAHL

#32 - Must refresh before posting. Can we share A-H?



A.

Isn't that funny! Alice, Deevs and I with the Faraway Tree as favourite!



On that note FAR FAR AWAY by SLADE ('Noddy' Holder, lead singer!)

FARAWAY PLACES by THE BACHELORS

GORGEOUS GEORGE - Edwyn Collins

#41, of course we cam Alice.

#42 - I was just about to suggest Far Far Away but I followed my own advice and refreshed before posting MCW! It ticks all the boxes. Do youthink it'll get played?

JENNIFER'S RABBIT - Tom Paxton

THE LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE by BUCKS FIZZ



Now I better get going!



Mcw x

'yester-me, yester-you, yesterday' Stevie Wonder

BARNEY - Loretta Lynn

Is it me or is the blog at it again???



Just done a quick search on Enid Blyton Books. Have you seen how many there are? Prolific does seem to cover it!!!



A.

'do you want to know a secret' The Beatles

#51 I meant 'doesn't', doh!



A.

#51 me too Alice..I never got the EB reading bug as a child...

Good Morning All :)



I could have sworn the blog was alright when I logged in - now it's all jumpy again!! *gets paranoid*



The twins are off to holiday club in a moment *keeps fingers crossed*



So, interviewing Liam Gallagher, eh? He has always struck me as a surely taciturn sort, butmaybe that's just his showbiz persona, and really he is a pleasant, witty and thoughtful type...



Enid Blyton oldies?



YOU CAN RING MY BELL - ANITA WARD (for Noddy!)



I shall have a ponder to see if I can come up with anymore...

Fun Fun Fun ~@ The Beach Boys



Sweet Little Mystery ~ Wet Wet Wet

'seasons in the sun' Terry Jacks



..." we had joy, we had fun..."

Oops... don't know where the '@' came from!

That should have read... "surly taciturn sort" r.e Liam Gallagher, I blame the jumpy blog!!

#54 - When the boys were younger they loved the Noddy Series on TV and ended up with quite a few of the books. They really loved me reading to them so when the Faraway Series appeared at a well known Supermarket I bought them and it reminded me how much I loved old Moonface and The Saucepan Man. I was transported back to my childhood, oh happy days!



Things were so much easier then, but it could be those pesky rose tinted specs I keep put on instead of my usual blind as a bat glasses, lol!



A.

#59 - Mrs Moog, I read it as surly anyway!

I saw Mary Wilson in concert in Nottingham in 2009....as you know I'm a huge soul and Motown fan but she did little to endear herself to me....quote' you all think I just stood behind Diana and did the oooo's and the arrrr's well let me tell you it made me very rich" and all said with a rather smug smile...golden rule of show biz never treat your fans/audience as suckers....



psl

Another:-



Secret World - Peter Gabriel (from the album Us, which is excellent, imho)



A.

Sorry Simon, I realise it's out of your control, but the jumping blog is back again!



: (

Queen - I Want It All



K's Choice - Favourite Adventure

GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN - CYNDI LAUPER



For the girls of Malory Towers :)

Good morning everyone. Blog still jumpin'!



My grandad taught me to read with Enid Blyton's Clicky the Clockwork Clown so I'd like:



TEARS OF A CLOWN by SMOKEY ROBINSON

Go◦○d Mo˚rning Each! Jΰmping bl

Good morning Everyone and, of course, Simon, The Team and the VNYM,



My brain is well and truly (w)racked and I can't better any of these suggestions so will stop trying now.



#60 - Many moons ago, I spent most of a channel crossing reading "Noddy Gets Into Trouble" to the elderGB - I think we clocked up 40+ readings of the same story. We were word perfect by the end of it but I didn't dare miss out any of the pages as he'd have been apoplectic. He also liked the tv programme but would hide when Sly and Gobbo made an appearance - he was terrified of them.



~ x

not forgiven the Gallagher boys for having a punch up and not coming on stage at Rock en seine Aug 2009....mega disappointed :-(

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#60 Alice, did you find that you had to change some of the dated language that she used when reading to your children?



#67 Harry, that conjured up such a lovely image. I think a lot of children who grew up in the 50's/60's/70's had Ms Blyton to thank for their reading skills, even though she is not regarded as very PC anymore.



Now I really, really must go!



Mcw x

#69 Hi Toots, you were obviously ahead of the game; news report recently suggested that reading the same story over and over again to our kids improves their vocab much better than reading lots of different books.

Morning all, blog still jumping I see. Is there no-one in IT support that can sort this, I've tried turning my computer of then on again!



How about "Story of the Blues" by The Mighty Wah.



U2 still on half term!



GB

#39 Alice, I like your style!



GB

Brilliant!



Well surely What We Did On Our Holidays by Fairport Convention - lovely, but maybe not good radio at this particular moment in the day!



Watching the Detectives - Elvis Costello



or Do You Want To Know A Secret (seven!) - Beatles



or...Trees - Rush.



I seem to remember there being all sorts of unrest on the forest and trouble in the trees in those books!!!

#72 - MCW, the books accompanied the TV series, so I was safe.



Now the Faraway Tree..the boys giggled at the silliest things. Namely one the girl's names. Shan't put it here, I don't want to be modded, hehehe!



A.

#75, Simon I hope you don't mind but U2 are rather fab!



A.

LOL #77 - I know just the one!

Oooh! School's Out - Alice Cooper

Anyroads up, Enid Blyton? I was more of a 'Just William', 'Stig Of The Dump' and 'Nigel Molesworth' sort of kid. I think Enid was a tad, erm 'girly'. Still, a theme is a theme, and I suspect that this one will be fun. Jolly fun!



'Proud Mary' by Creedence Clearwater Revival (Enid = Mary Pollack)



'Georgie Girl' by The Seekers



'Under The Summer Stars' by The Enid

THE END OF THE INNOCENCE - DON HENLEY



Remember when the days were long

And rolled beneath a deep blue sky

Didn't have a care in the world

With mommy and daddy standing by

When "happily ever after" fails

And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

'The Secret Seven' by Duane Eddy. I suspect that somewhere up there (↑), someone has already suggested this.

#73 - Harry, I chuckled when I heard that the other day. The elderGB despite being an August baby has done quite well at school so I always pooh pooh the studies that find babies born in the summer months tend not to do so well at school. I'm not so sure about this study either - the elderGB being a teenager is given to bouts of monosyllabic communication.



~ x

My name is John, and I'm a recovering Enid Blyton fan.



Actually my favourites were the Famous Five and the Sea/Ship/Mountain/Island of Adventure series. There was something hallucinogenic about the Faraway Tree - Moonface always seems a bit sinister in my mind, and what's with Saucepan Man?!





My sister was more of a Mallory Towers and Secret Seven fan



Tried reading Mr Galliano's Circus to my kids, but I fell asleep before they did. Although they did like the Faraway Tree.



Those "Comic Strip Presents..." versions are still a good giggle.



#72 MCW - you're totally right about thanking her for our reading skills - I devoured them as a kid, and couldn't wait for the next birthday/xmas/visit from grandma or aunty when the next book would appear.

#84 - Toots, is elderGB male? It happens to them all but especially with boys; the increased hormones render the voice box inoperable except for anything other than a grunt.

PoS - I LOVED Stig Of The Dump - read it so many times as a kid. My fave children's book of all time though has to be Charlie & The Chocolate Factory by the great Roald Dahl.



Deevs

x

Jΰmping bloƍ đRįvi∩ᵷ m℮ craↄkⱷRṨ!

creeping over from other side.



faraway tree was my favourite. but i also liked stig of the dump.

youngest girl is now reading faraway tree and i even found one of my original books...99p i think it was.

I read all sorts when I was a youngster from The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew to Heidi and books by Beatrix Potter.



Not much has changed now that I have 'grown up' (I use the term loosely, hehehe!)



The Hubby bought me a Kindle because he was fed up of the books I haven't managed to find space for on the various shelves I have.



A.

Another:-



(Brer) Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) - Florence and The Machine



A.

#87 - Deevs, all my kids loved Roald Dahl. He was always 'ruder' than other children's authors. They loved it that the Vicar of Nibbleswicke's parishioners would "krap" on the verge. My daughter loved the poetry in The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me, especially:



Oh how I wish

for a nice dish of fish.

How far are we from the sea?

Harry, yep, the elderGB is a boy in his first year of 'A' levels. On the whole, he's good company but we do have times when he's not such good company.



As a kid, I read most of the Famous Five and some of the Secret Seven books but couldn't get either of the GBs to read any Enid Blyton. One of my favourite books was Carrie's War and I liked the books in the Psammead series by E Nesbit, "Five Children and It". Waaaaaaah, I just love reading :)



~ x

Alice - I have loads of books waiting to be read too. My sister, a friend and I all swap books plus another friend and I have a mini book group - just the two of us - to encourage us to read stuff we wouldn't ordinarily read.



~ x

Harry - I can remember when I was in 6th Form and Rik Mayall did GEorge's Marvellous Medicine on Jackanory, in a style that only Rik Mayall can. I can still see him staring into camera and reading out the first line:-



George's grandmother had a mouth like a dog's bottom.



Genius - and never before had such a gaggle of teens got home so fast in order to watch Jackanory!!



x

oo the five children and it..liked that too. and does anyone other than me remember Bogwoppits??



djeli

Nope - stumped there redd.



I used to like Button Moon tho!



x

#96 Bogwoppits? Sounds like us lot blogging after wine o'clock!

#96 - djeli - I haven't heard of them but just checked them out - aw - he looks kinda cute in a bedraggled sort of way. The website I checked out had a reference to Shirley Hughes; the GBs loved Shirley Hughes' stories, particularly the Alfie and Annie Rose books.



~ x

Is anyone in charge of hats, whilst the lovely KatyMac is on holibobs?



~ x