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Post by Claire on Feb 22, 2012 15:31:17 GMT 1
Also their mother goes off with their father sailing in the later books, I think, if I remember correctly Yes she does! So she's as bad as the father really! I feel like I have to read the others now so I can remember everything that happens.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2012 19:56:40 GMT 1
Think I'll start reading the next one too now Just trying to finish Ponies at Westways...oh dear I'm struggling with it!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2012 8:35:24 GMT 1
Just finished Summer at Worlds End Yes, the mother goes off sailing too Although she really doesn't want to at the start and she does come back to see Carrie when she is ill. The father doesn't! Some great characters like "Hube the Boob" the awful spolit brat who ends up staying with them. And I really like Liza, the wild child from " Mount Putrid" a sort of prison for wayward girls. She has a heart of gold underneath the hard facade she puts up. The best horsey bit is where Carrie and Lester rescue a chestnut pony from a girl who didn't want any one to buy the pony so she tries to ruin him by beating him
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Post by Claire on Feb 26, 2012 14:29:28 GMT 1
I must read the others now. Forgot about Hube the Boob! ;D I like the way the series is also about rescuing animals even tho its not as realistic as Follyfoot, Monica still keeps the theme going.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2012 17:54:10 GMT 1
Iβve just read the third in this series now, Worldβs End in Winter. I think this is my favourite of the three so far. The parents are there most of the time, amazingly. The main part of the story is how the children meet a disabled girl and help her to ride again. The awful father is trying to write a book about his efforts at sailing around the world. Needless to say the editor who first said they would publish it turns him down once he has completed the manuscript. I almost felt sorry for him. Almost. Until in his anger he hits poor Charlie the dog in the face just because he licks him. I quickly reverted to my original opinion of him. Appropriately it is an animal that saves the day and not a human. Charlie the dog appears in a dog food commercial so they have enough money to fix the barn which collapsed in a storm and they can continue Riding for the Disabled lessons. A lovely ending that Priscilla is set free from her wheelchair by defying her fuss-pot mother and riding Oliver Twist on her own.
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Post by Claire on Mar 3, 2012 21:36:35 GMT 1
I haven't got round to the others yet. Did they at first try and use one of the cats in commercials, or am I getting mixed up?
I do think the books are sort of cumulative in nature so that you get the full benefit when you read the full series rather than just one.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2012 8:00:18 GMT 1
Think you might be getting mixed up as they didn't try a cat first. Charlie only got used because he decided to join in with the filming without being asked ;D he was such a natural at catching dog biscuits the Director kept him in. I agree I think you need to read all the books to get the whole picture.
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Post by Claire on Mar 4, 2012 14:02:46 GMT 1
Think you might be getting mixed up as they didn't try a cat first. Hmm I wonder where that happened then. I can remember someone trying to train a cat to do it but the cat was hopeless. Wonder what book that was in?!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2012 21:40:14 GMT 1
Finished the last in the series Spring Comes to Worlds End. I've enjoyed reading them all again. You aren't going mad Claire, you were correct in that a cat appeared in a commercial, although it was the dog Charlie that was hopeless this time, so the cat took over! I like the old Percheron, Roy, that Carrie and Lester save from the circus and the story about rescuing sea birds caught in an oil slick. As usual the parents are about as much help as a chocolate tea pot. Uncle Rudolph is planning to sell Worlds End and turf the children out and the children do all the odd jobs they can to buy the house from him. Mother and father are working on a charter yacht in the Mediterranean to help buy the house but they lose the money It all ends well after Awful Aunt Valentina is kidnapped and the children help in her rescue so Uncle Rudolph gives them the house. Interesting he doesn't give it to "their useless father!"
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Post by Claire on Mar 8, 2012 22:43:11 GMT 1
You aren't going mad Claire, you were correct in that a cat appeared in a commercial, although it was the dog Charlie that was hopeless this time, so the cat took over! Lol rosie thank heavens for that I've been wracking my brains to think where else it could have been as I could have sworn it was this series, I'm not quite ready for the men in white coats yet!
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