Nancy Blackett: Farewell to Veere, Motoring to Middelburg
For the last time this week, Nancy Blackett’s current crew waved a tearful goodbye to Veere’s excellent croissant shop, writes Nick Ardagh-Walter… The croissant shop is set amongst…
For the last time this week, Nancy Blackett’s current crew waved a tearful goodbye to Veere’s excellent croissant shop, writes Nick Ardagh-Walter… The croissant shop is set amongst…
In these days of special effects- driven blockbusters and graphic R-rated video games, Swallows and Amazons cannot really compete – and it does not want to. While it does deliver an action sequence in the finale, featuring boats and a seaplane, kids …
Celebrate Swallows and Amazons this summer with this pair of highly collectable decorative mugs. Made in England from fine bone china, these beaker-style mugs have…
Wednesday got off to a sodden start for Nancy Blackett and her crew, as Nick Ardagh-Walter reveals… There was solid, heavy rain for about 16 hours, throughout the night and morning, together…
If anyone gets swept up in “Swallows and Amazons ,” a kids’ adventure with an unapologetically old-fashioned Bobbsey Twins vibe, it will be very young moviegoers. Their grown-ups will at least get a break from frenetic cartoons, along with lovely views …
Nancy Blackett and her new crew have had a busy sixth week in Zeeland so far, as new crewman Nick Ardagh-Walter writes. The new crew arrived in Middelburg on Saturday morning and joined sitting…
The 2016 “Swallows and Amazons” film opens from today in the USA, with a limited release in selected cinemas and a wider release on Cable TV, digital video-on-demand and library/college services as follows: Digital video-on-demand: Amazon Video FandangoNow Google Play iTunes Vudu Non-Theatrical Digital: Hoopla (libraries) Kanopy (libraries + colleges) Cable TV services: AT&T DirecTV…
With 2017 marking the 80th anniversary of the publication of “We Didn’t Mean To Go To Sea” and the 50th anniversary of Ransome’s death, the village of Pin Mill in Suffolk held the Arthur Ransome Pin Mill Jamboree which took place on 13 May, during the Push the Boat Out event…
Journalist Octavia Pollock from “Country Life” magazine recently spent some time aboard Nancy Blackett and around Pin Mill, during the weekend of the Arthur Ransome Pin Mill Jamboree in…