Rod Webb reports on Nancy Blackett’s progress during her final week in Zeeland… We went to Yerseke yesterday and are now in Goes. We’re having a good time but we’re keeping…
Shayla and Jonathon Batty created the contest asking for poems about their home, Bank Ground Farm at Coniston, or Swallows and Amazons , the classic Arthur Ransome children’s story which has strong connections to their farm. The winner was 73-year-old …
The new crew, Dave Hart, Adam Pentelow and I had all reached Nancy Blackett in Middelburg, and joined Paul Wray on…
At the end of her penultimate week in Zeeland, skipper John Dixon reveals how Nancy Blackett once again worked her magic… On Thursday we awoke to torrential rain. With a force 7 gale forecast…
It’s been a remarkable summer so far for an old-fashioned story about some children who were allowed to go off on their own and camp on an island…without their parents! Arthur Ransome’s classic Swallows and Amazons has featured prominently in the …
In the latest update from Nancy Blackett, Barry Goldbourne writes… On a sunny Wednesday we got underway early from lovely Zierikzee in an easterly force 4 wind. We motored backwards under the…
Nancy Blackett’s penultimate week in Holland got off to a leisurely start, writes skipper Barry Goldbourne… Our new crew took over a great-looking Nancy Blackett at midday on Saturday,…
From the Westmorland Gazette ARTHUR Ransome is best known as the author of Swallows and Amazons. The much-loved children’s series of books captured an idyllic childhood that was set mainly in the Furness fells and enchanting waters around Coniston – the author’s life-long spiritual home. However, in his autobiography, Ransome admits that he felt that…
Shayla and Jonathan Batty, owners of Bank Ground Farm, in Coniston, created the challenge asking people for poems about their home, or Swallows and Amazons , the classic children’s story with strong connections to their farm. The winner was 73-year-old …