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The third Christmas question.
3. Miss Turner (aka the Amazons great aunt) and Peter Marlow are discussing Christmas decorations. What are their opinions ( Read more... ) -
cinnamon biscuit for Heliopausa and any one else who cares to try them
First of all have a look in the 'fridge and the freezer. If it's very crowded in there, postpone baking these until another time. You have to let things get cold between the stages so need plenty of time ( Read more... ) -
First two questions
1. What does Dorothea Callum buy for John Walker ( Read more... ) -
Trying to make a "Christmas cliche" meme thingy
Admittedly I'm sometimes of the "trying things until they work" school of learning ( Read more... ) -
Cars and the Swallows and Amazons characters
(or should I say automobiles for American readers?)
Of course in the 1930s cars were very much less common. So which characters could drive - and which had driving licenses?
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I wonder if writing this will get it out of my head - or at least stop the thought/memory from popping up at such inconvenient times. Two o’clock in the morning is not convenient for any thoughts to pop up suddenly inside my brain.
An event in the waiting room of a clinic is under the cut. Reference to cancer and death.
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And small Dudgeons
Well, this will be a short entry because I haven't actually found out a great deal about them yet. However, William Thomas Dudgeon was born in January 1948. He gets on particularly well with Jamie Brading - Young Will being the more outgoing of the pair. (He starts off as young Bill and metamorphoses into young Will at some later and indeterminate ( Read more... ) -
small Callums - more ideas about the second generation of Swallows and Amazons
I think Dick Callum and Titty Walker marry in 1941 - probably rather late in 1941. Given the situation at the time, and that they are both involved in making Secret Stuff somewhere in Hertfordshire, they didn't plan to start a family immediately - and don't. By the beginning of 1944 though, they are definitely of the opinion that small Callums ( Read more... ) -
happy birthday
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Happy Birthday Jenn Calaelen