The crime-fighting, adventure-seeking youngsters of Enid Blyton’s imagination always found time to enjoy a jolly picnic of boiled eggs and sandwiches, cake and ginger beer.
Posted on: 2nd February 2012
Does anyone else remember Smash Hits magazine? As a pre-teen did you pounce on the Top 20 song lyrics therein, desperate to memorise them? I hope it wasn’t just me. I’m still fascinated by song lyrics today. There are those that tell a story, like Rod Stewart’s ‘Maggie May’ and those that are wonderfully absurd, like The Beatles’ ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’.