Paddington Bear & The school at the turrets

Today's theme is reading and today I will write about two books.

One thing I have always liked is Paddington Bear who came from deepest darkest Peru to London.

Aunt Lucy is Paddington's aunt and Uncle Pastuzo's wife. She adopted her nephew after his parents died. When Pastuzo died in an earthquake she later sent him off to London while she resided in the Home for Retired Bears in Darkest Peru. 

Paddington often writes to her about his new family in London.

Paddington Bear was both a series of printed stories we read and at the time a cartoon series on BBC 1, part of a batch that run before the main 5:40 or 5:45 evening news slot that marked the transition from children's programming to more adult or  at least whole family material.

I have a dvd with all the original cartoon episodes on.

Connected with Michael Bond being working in the BBC, for a good many years in the 1960's and early 1970's a new Paddington Bear short story would appear in the Blue Peter book we had that Christmas.

This publication, mine is a the original boyhood edition, issued in 1975 brought a group of them together 

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As the nights start to draw in, it's a enjoyable idea to read a book about an hour before bed time several chapters per night and this is one I read recently.

 I've had this actual childhood being published in nineteen seventy-one by Armada in Great Britain and my copy is a little worn around the spine although the pages haven't started to fall out.

It's a ghost story with a twist being set at a girls boarding school where Ida sees something that almost causes her heart to stop beating for her eyes are transfixed upon a tall figure in white with an outstretched hand and a stony stare in her eyes.

This, Ida thinks must be the the 'White Lady' who legend has it haunts the old part of the school turrets.

It's a gripping story.