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Five Go Down To The Sea
Five Go Down To The Sea | Enid Blyton
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Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog find excitement and adventure wherever they go in Enid Blyton's most popular series. In book twelve, somebody is flashing lights from the top of the old tower on the treacherous rocks off the Cornish coast. The Famous Five sense danger. But can they solve this mystery without getting hurt themselves? These classic editions feature Enid Blyton's unchanged text and Eileen A. Soper's original illustrations.
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Connster
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Not too many squares on the bingo grid for this one! I‘m going to be disappointed if the next doesn‘t have a girl who tries to behave like a boy or any ginger beer!

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If there‘s no smugglers, it isn‘t a Famous Five story! Seriously though, how much of a problem was smuggling in the 1930s? Did people really go to so much effort to avoid paying import tax? Did they always have to use tumbledown houses and long-forgotten passageways to do it? And why is there always five sanctimonious little gits trying to catch them? Are the smugglers‘ plans so low-tech that five children can crack them?

thegirlwiththelibrarybag Smugglers are like pirates - part of a romanticised past 5y
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Connster
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This is my favourite Famous Five quote ever! This offsets my rubbish day and pink-stained hand 🖐 😂

julesG 😂😂 5y
Connster @julesG 😂😂😂 5y
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Connster
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This collage sums up today perfectly:
1. Ooh, this bath bomb looks awesome, I‘ve been saving it for a time when I need to relax and that time is now.
2. Wow, the colours!
3. Ooh, the little bobbles come off and make satellite bath bombs in different colours! How exciting! Let me fondle it and marvel at the ingenuity!
4. Shit. Pink hand. Won‘t come off, despite much scrubbing.

I give up!

julesG It could have been worse. It's "only" your hand ? I recommend salt and lemon juice. 5y
TrishB Make up wipes 👍🏻 5y
BookwormM I once had a bath salt that stained the bath blue hubby was not impressed took ages of scrubbing to get it off 5y
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Connster @julesG Haha, that‘s so true! I‘ll try that, thank you! 5y
Connster @TrishB 👍 Thank you! Will try that! 5y
Connster @BookwormM Oh no! This one didn‘t get the bath too bad, just me! Some of them really do stain the bath - the glittery ones are terrible! They‘re awesome though 😁 5y
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I loved her books as a child, and still do as an adult!

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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
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Ahh the famous 5! Is there anywhere they can't go by bike? #somethingforsept #bookssetbythesea

Pass the ginger beer! And get ready for an adventure 😉

ultrabookgeek Please tell me what this series is about! Is it like the Beatles meets Scooby-Do? 8y
CoffeeAndABook Yay!! They'll always inhabit a corner of my ❤️ .... all 5️⃣ of them!! 8y
thegirlwiththelibrarybag @ultrabookgeek, basically 4 kids and 1 dog having unsupervised adventures (published in the 40s and 50s) which often involved camping, amazing picnics, bike riding and solving a crime/mystery... Generally no music so not very Beatle like. (The cover in the right is from the 70s tv show) 8y
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