Quote: Oldrocker @ September 3 2012, 9:56 PM BSTJust as well.
We haven't got enough fish paste to go round.
Shame. Don't really fancy any of Miss Pugh's gravy...
Fictional places you'd like to live. Page 4
Quote: Tuumble @ September 3 2012, 9:59 PM BSTShame. Don't really fancy any of Miss Pugh's gravy...
I know.
I thought my mother's gravy was bad but dear me, hers just lies there and sets.
Quote: Kenneth @ September 3 2012, 7:42 AM BSTRed Gate Rover and Green Gate One. And Worthington in the golden Roller for guessing nearest the number of beans in a jar. Outwitting E. Skinner Norris. Didn't seem to be a lot of girls about - probably just as well, although I think in some of the much later books in the series, they were given girlfriends. I've not read one since I was about 14. Do they age as well as Malory Towers?
Up until about 18 months ago I hadn't read one since about 1981. Then I decided to get my lad who was 11/12 interested (in an attempt to get him reading and away from his Xbox. I have my old books still from my reading days and apart from slight yellowing of the page ends they are in perfect condition (I always like to keep my books in top order, no turning the corners down or breaking the spine!).
Being sad, I actually bought a second hand batch (about 20) from eBay for him. He read about 50 pages of one book and gave in. I hummed and harred about reading one, thinking it might spoil my memories but I couldn't resist and read one. It only took about an hour to read but I still enjoyed it.
River world
Quote: Will Cam @ September 3 2012, 11:04 PM BSTHe read about 50 pages of one book and gave in. I hummed and harred about reading one, thinking it might spoil my memories but I couldn't resist and read one. It only took about an hour to read but I still enjoyed it.
Does "gave in" mean he submitted to the pleasure of reading them? Or that he "gave up" and found them unreadable?
Which one did you re-read? I found my first one on the day John Lennon was shot - it was the The Mystery of the Vanishing Treasure. I picked it up in a doctor's waiting room and took it home. Then read a bunch from libraries and collected the lot. Seem to remember the Flaming Footprints or Fiery Eye as being somewhat toughly political (and Silver Spider to a less gripping extent). Stuttering Parrot and Crooked Cat were fun. Ah, they were all good. I still remember the authors were Robert Arthur, M.V. (Mary) Carey, Nick West and William Arden, but after the number of books got into the 30s they seemed to decline in quality a bit, what with me getting too old for kids' books and the text of the new ones verging on formulaic. I never knew anyone else who read them.
Summer Bay- Yabby Creek' Home and Away'-
'Darrowby' from 'All Creatures'also looks very nice, Bergeracs pad in Jersey would suffice! 