A Sojourn in Suffolk
Pin Mill on the Shotley Peninsula is one of those little picturesque little places which you would never leave the main road for, unless you had a reason to visit…
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Swallows and Amazons Chapter XII: He was glad he had brought the compass
The lengthy conversation about the relative heights of the younger crew members turns out to be more important than it first appears. Yes, it reinforces messages we have already had about Roger’s status in the family, Susan’s sense of responsibility, John’s need to plan for all of them. But it also sets the context for the declaration that Roger won’t need to reach the lantern…
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Extracts from Nancy Blackett’s 2016 Logbook
BBC Radio Suffolk visits Nancy’s ‘Push the Boat Out’ open weekend at Woolverstone, and roving reporter Simon Warr is shown how to tie a bowline knot by Peter Willis…
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Screen time more dangerous for children than activities in Swallows and Amazons, warn academics
Spending hours staring at screens is a more dangerous pastime than the perilous activities carried out by the children from Swallows and Amazons, academics have said…
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Swallows and Amazons Chapter XI: They seemed to know everything
In which we learn about centre boards, pilot books (I had to look them up), and the proper way to carry a heavy barrel.
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Keswick Film Festival to bring glamour to the Lakes once more
Over the course of the event, 30 films will be screened, including American classic Casablanca and Cumbrian favourite Swallows and Amazons . The film’s producer Nick Barton will host a Q&A session…
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Swallows and Amazons Chapter X: A treaty of offence and defence
This chapter is about making friends, and specifically, how to make friends when what you really want to do with your new friends is pretend to be enemies. It manages to illustrate this on several levels within not many pages, and it’s really quite clever.
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New director at the helm of Maddermarket Theatre’s artistic programme
Now he is preparing to direct four of the Maddermarket’s 2017 shows – Hay Fever, Swallows and Amazons , Nell Gwynn and The Wolves of Willoughby Chase…
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Swallows and Amazons Chapter IX: ‘Swallow has gone’
No cryptically whimisical title for this chapter. This is Serious Bizniss.
Poor John wakes up all of a muddle. I can’t quite tell whether he’s wishing that his story had stayed pottersome or hoping that it will turn into a thriller, and I’m not sure that he knows, either.