04:29 BS 6.7
🙂 I forgot to post yesterday
😳 which was about the same time & BS 6.9 so, pretty consistent
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A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day!
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In a blast from the past I re reading an absolutely BRILLIANT children’s book I discovered quite late in my teens, around 16, my brother’s school jumble sale! I bought a second hand hard back book without a dust jacket called “The Wind on The Moon” by Eric Linklater & discovered it, complete with the dust cover design, & all the brilliant illustrations on Kindle a few years ago & bought that to re read much more conveniently: goodness knows where the hard back book is in the house?
🙄 I’ve had a hankering, recently, for peppermint creams & been munching a few After Eight munchies after eating & as always it brings to my mind this book!
😛 It’s about two little girls of, I’m guessing as it was never mentioned, about 10 & 8 & the year they had of being naughty in a spectacular way they never have been before!
😱 On the eve of their father’s departure as a soldier to a far off country there’s a hazy ring of light around the full moon & their father warns them that “there’s a wind on The Moon” & they mustn’t be naughty while he’s away as it’ll blow straight into their hearts & they’ll be naughty for a long time to come! Now Dinah & Dorinda, the two girls of which Dinah is two years older, decide to help their father pack as he laboriously folds his suits neatly into his suitcase. The girls decide it’s much more efficient to roll up his clothes into sausages & dumps his boots on top to save space! They really don’t think they’re being naughty at all but, get beaten by their father for being so! He really dosen’t like to but feels he must because of The Wind on The Moon & to remind them to be good while he’s away! And so begins a whole year of the two of them being very naughty & having wonderful adventures in which they ate a lot & became round like balloons, were pricked with pins by the village children as they WERE taken for balloons, cried for weeks on end & lost SO much weight they looked like red faced matchsticks, Dinah, only ever on her own to Dorinda’s chagrin, visited her friend Mrs. Grimble who’s a witch in the forest several times for help & during one of those times they drink a magic potion that could turn them into any animal they want to be, they decide to be kangaroos to frighten the village as revenge for being stuck with pins, get captured by a great estate landowner & put into his private zoo, there they meet grizzily bear that loves to read The Times newspaper, a giraffe who loves being an amateur detective & helps him to solve the case of who’s been stealing the ostriches eggs!
😱😛😎 The year culminates with them hearing about their father’s capture in a foreign land by a tyrant, with a penchant for peppermint creams, the girls steal his half pound paper bag of them, & deciding to go rescue him by travelling in furniture van with strategic spaces left for them amongst the stacked furniture to hide in, live, cook & eat as it travels across the sea & over Europe to the tyrant Count Bloot’s home! They find thier father imprisoned in a damp dungeon, rescue him & travel back again via the furniture van! Loads of fun & I highly recommend it for children, obviously, but, also to adults as I think of Dinah & Dorinda every time I’m thinking of having peppermint creams!
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