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EssexHebridean

jwil said:

I loved the famous five books, and all Enid Blyton. EH- It was Kirrin cottage that the tree fell on! Five go to Smugglers top. I should go on Mastermind 😆

Love that recall jwil - well done! 

SA - I have a Thelwell china model in my cabinet at home! 

foxgloves

I liked the Arthur Ransome books, which I didn't discover until I was 11, when my Great Aunt gave me the set which had belonged to my Dad's cousins in the 1940s. I read all of them during the summer holidays. They made me want to prospect for gold, go out dowsing & set up camps. I wasn't remotely boaty, & I'm sure the story in which they accidentally drift across the North Sea to Holland in a storm made me extra careful while paddling on those childhood Suffolk.beaches!
One of my favourite stories was 'The Secret Garden'. I didn't much like the two main characters, but the garden bits were lovely - a real tale of the healing, redemptive powers of nature.
F x

EssexHebridean

I’m pretty sure I still have my childhood copy of The Secret Garden around somewhere… I really must re-read some of those! 

badmemory

My favourite, which I obviously only discovered as an adult, was Watership Down.  Recommended by my father, who was at the time head of a primary school.  I am actually on my third copy now & will never lend it out again.

Humdinger1

Late to the party @CRANKY40 but...farewell to goats?! What's the story please? Love Humdinger xx 

Humdinger1

EssexHebridean said:

All OK with you and the HT Cranky? 

@Foxgloves - wire coat hangers and odd socks - they secretly breed when your back is turned. 

Did you ever see that episode of The X Files when a long slithery thing came out of people's washing machines in an apartment block? That's the best explanation of what happens to odd socks ever...they join together and colonise.  Love Humdinger xx 

CRANKY40

Humdinger1 said:

Late to the party @CRANKY40 but...farewell to goats?! What's the story please? Love Humdinger xx 

The HT went to a farm school. I sponsored the goats so I had all their photos on the wall. While the HT was at school we could do visits at school events too - Christmas fair, visit the goats, Summer fair, visit the goats etc. I was having my usual goat chat/goat love in one evening with all the lovely goats in a semi circle and the HT was across the other side of the goat pen. He came over to me laughing so hard that he was almost crying. He said that a lady had tried to call the goats over to her (goats ignored her, we were busy) and her friend had been heard to say " We stand no chance with the goat whisperer (me) over there". I just like goats, what else can I say?

Humdinger1

Thank you @CRANKY40! Or should that be 'Oh Great Goat-Whisperer'? Isn't there a film 'Men who stare at Goats' about some sort of US military psychic experiment? Why not keep on sponsoring the goats, as they are plainly important? Love Humdinger xx

EssexHebridean

Loving the goat story! 

theoldmansmrs

Loving the story about the goats. You can understand why the HT was laughing so much