Quote: Marc P @ August 22 2012, 2:13 PM BSTMy favourites in these kind of adventure stories are the Arthur Ransome series. I am in the process of turning my bedroom into a ships cabin! I drink a bottle of rum stagger round like it's on the high seas and then vomit out of the window!
So who's "Roger" the cabin boy?
It's not fully staffed yet!
Titty probably has something to say about that.
do wah?
Lol
I think they changed her name in some adaptations too!
Quote: sootyj @ August 22 2012, 2:21 PM BSTdo wah?
http://arthur-ransome.org/Members/geraint/the-books/copy_of_synopsis-template
Quote: Loopey @ August 22 2012, 2:26 PM BSThttp://arthur-ransome.org/Members/geraint/the-books/copy_of_synopsis-template
See...now...if my kids read this, especially my big girly twenty-two year old son...they would just keep laughing everytime the word 'Titty' came up.
Quote: Kenneth @ August 22 2012, 3:35 AM BSTPlease don't tell filthy lies.
You really are creepily aggressive.
Quote: zooo @ August 21 2012, 10:23 AM BSTNo ginger beer? I thought it was a soft drink...
It is, but it's a drink more ascociated with blacks than white toffs these days so I'm assuming that's why the new publishers changed it?
Quote: zooo @ August 22 2012, 3:30 PM BSTYou really are creepily aggressive.
Thanks. "Filthy lies" was supposed to sound like one of the school-girl chastisements from Malory Towers. Merely a stern rebuke for your "horrid untruth" that Blyton's daughters wanted the golliwogs expunged.
RC you read Mallory Towers! Christ! what next 'The 4 Marys' the 'Bunty' and 'The Judy'? 'Scoolgirls Own' with Lettuce Leaf'?- Cripes! discussion needed right now in dorm 4secret wardrobe!- quick chums, Matron is due.
Quote: Joyce @ August 22 2012, 12:16 PM BSTLet's not forget Mr Pink Whistle. He was my favourite as a small child. I still have a Valley of Adventure and an Island of Adventure book somewhere. I've probably got two full boxes full of Enid Blytons.
He was a tall sort of pixie-like chap with pointed ears and a cat named Sootyj. I always found he and Mr Twiddle to be a bit too girly, possibly just the pink covers, fluffy narrative and fairy-brownie-pixie stuff. The Valley of Adventure I remember quite vividly - as that series was slightly more 'grown-up' than the Famous Five. Mostly orphans (or semi-orphans) being stranded in war-time and surrounded by evil men. Annoying parrot though - redolent of Orko on He-Man or the Wonder Twins' space monkey Gleek.
Quote: Kenneth @ August 23 2012, 9:16 AM BSTHe was a tall sort of pixie-like chap with pointed ears and a cat named Sootyj. I always found he and Mr Twiddle to be a bit too girly, possibly just the pink covers, fluffy narrative and fairy-brownie-pixie stuff.
I actually remember Mr Pink Whistle being a bit more sinister than that. He gave his 'victims' a real run for their money. I never got a fluffy feeling. Maybe, I just don't know fluff when I see it. I've still got the books.
Mr Pink Whistle and the fluffy feeling. Could be a winner.
Quote: Marc P @ August 23 2012, 9:33 AM BSTMr Pink Whistle and the fluffy feeling. Could be a winner.
For a sort of adult Cluedo, maybe.