Famous Five: 6: Five On Kirrin Island Again

but sometimes it was better to do a hard thing and be unhappy about it, than try to be happy without doing it.

‘Oooh!’ said Anne. ‘Joanna, you shall have the O.B.C.B.E.!’ ‘And what may that be?’ cried Joanna, but Anne couldn’t remember.
    ’It’s a decoration!’ she cried.
    ’Well, I’m not a Christmas tree!’ shouted back Joanna.

*O.B.C.B.E. -     ’Order of the Best Cooks of the British Empire’