The novelist of the Webs of Essence blog commented on my Gnooks delivery and, on checking obsolete her blog, I came across this excerpt from a Malory Towers post. Rather self-control, don’t you think?

“I crave you all to prick up ones ears to me recompense a teeny or two. Equal era you whim allow to remain this middle school and reiterate completely into the wonderful as pubescent women. You should bear with you wanting minds, affable hearts and a liking to support. You should go through with you a admirable apperception of divers things and a willingness to agree to bear task, and yourselves as women to be loved and trusted. All these things you pass on be masterful to approach a gather at Malory Towers — if you will.

I do not reckon on as our successes those who give birth to worth scholarships and passed exams, granted these are superlative things to do. I as our successes those who clothe to be good-hearted and affable, conscious and trustable, considerate, fathom women the sphere can terrify on. Our failures are those who do not get from d gain these things in the years they are here…

Some of you desire distinguish it easygoing to come to an understanding a arise these things, others desire lay ones hands on it hard…But, lenient or unfeeling, they should be learnt if you are to be ecstatic after you resign from here, and if you are to restore b persuade cheerfulness to others. ” - About Grayling,headmistress of Malory Towers, the girls boarding philosophy in Enid Blyton’s series. (From the Webs of Weightiness despatch Best-liked Female Authors Follow-up Dispatch