Swallows and Amazons
On Saturday, a boat trip around the ‘Backwaters’, a network of creeks and islands, protected from the sea by the spit of the Naze. Arthur Ransome based ‘Secret Water’ (of the Swallows and Amazons series) on this exact spot where he sailed as a child (‘Swallows and Amazons’ is a book which bye-the-bye I really wanted to enjoy reading to my children, but which in fact bored us all to tears, maybe after this enjoyable trip, time to reappraise the series).
posted by Julie Oakley at Tuesday, June 06, 2006
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Lovely trip on the boat around Walton backwaters. Julie was drawing furiously to capture the scenes which intrigued Terry.
On the way back Terry sat still just about long enough to be drawn & Julie sent him a lovely print of his picture.
Thanks ever so much.
Doug.
Doug and Terry, it was a pleasure.
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