https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...r-update-flops

Thank goodness Julian!

If they wanted to modernise it surely there should have been some recreational drug use.

whats next, the 'Noddy' books?

Thought that had already happened.

As a 90's kid, I used to love the Famous five books and honestly loved the fact it was set in a 'more simpler' time.

I still to this day have never tried ginger beer though.

I don't actually recall ginger beer in the books. I always thought the lashings of it came courtesy of The Comic Strip Presents...

There was ginger beer and lashings of cream but not 'lashings of ginger beer' which you correctly point out was from Five Go Mad in Dorset.

I vaguely recall them having picnics and so on before and after whatever heinous crime/disappearance interrupted their otherwise happy lives.

A 'simpler time' actually. (Sorry, pet peeve).

Also a big fan of ginger beer now and then.

Correct. Actually, I recently heard it was lashings of eggs (?) although cream does seem a more lashable type substance.

It's like when they banned conkers in schools, it's political correctness gone mad.

I've been having a slight 'local difficulty with ' the conker ' ...I have, for the last four years I've been stuck here, have been saying "my dog is very friendly and has eyes like two big shiny conkers" only to find that the local populace have little or NO knowledge of what ever it is I'm going on about.

A Conker is a big bright and shiny fruit from a Horse Chestnut Tree? Isn't it?

Yep!

Actually, hearing 'conkers' sounds a bit...suggestive. Like it could be describing something else with hand gestures followed by a phwoar.

That's bonkers.