I also remember this but not sure if it’s just wishful thinking. They definitely used to make boxes of fruit pastels which were lined with waxed paper - very specifically for a. Car journeys or b. Theatre/cinema trips in my family
You did better than I did! The answers are in the original feed … I got 9 and missed 3 really obvious ones
He he!! 👌
Edit: Sun 19th!
@jauzfaktnevim.cz @owenjell.bsky.social @jgardiner.bsky.social @fennygoldfish.bsky.social @farmerruth.bsky.social @nigelstead.bsky.social
(PS I’ve emailed the link to anyone who came last time - no pressure if you’d can’t join 😊)
📣📣Coot Club zoom chat - Sun 18th, 7.30pm UK time!📣📣
All are warmly invited to a relaxed chat about Coot Club. Doesn’t matter whether you read it 5 mins or 50 years ago!
Email winterholidaychat@gmail.com for the link if you’d like to come (my DMs aren’t working)
Brain teaser for a Saturday morning…
Three million cheers for @farmerruth.bsky.social for this Coot Club poem!! Thank you so much Ruth 👏👏👏
The Hullabaloos on their cruiser
Think Tom will be the loser
Get under your sail
And you cannot fail
To escape from thr figure-head bruiser
#SwallowsAndAmazons
How would Sun 19th 7.30pm or 8.00pm UK time work for our Coot Club zoom chat?
Let me know below or via email to winterholidaychat@gmail.com
Hello! So sorry I’ve not dipped into that account today … Will do so now! 😊
@jauzfaktnevim.cz @owenjell.bsky.social @fennygoldfish.bsky.social @farmerruth.bsky.social @nigelstead.bsky.social @jgardiner.bsky.social
So … rearranging Coot Club Zoom chat!
I could do Saturday 18th or Sunday 19th April any time after 5pm UK time. If you’re interested in joining, either drop me an email (winterholidaychat@gmail.com) or comment below with your preference.
DMs not working!
Oh lovely, hope you have a great time!
I’ll pop a few suggestions up later 👍
📣📣Announcement!📣📣
Many of our number aren’t able to make our 7pm Zoom chat, so instead I suggest we share our thoughts about Coot Club below, at our leisure👇
This means everyone can participate.
We can have a think about another read and potentially another zoom later in the year 😊
Ah just bring the whole bar along to the zoom chat …
(PS no worries, we’ll try to do the next one on a different day, if there better?)
Three Hullabaloos unpleasantly aboard the Margoletta
Here’s my entry …
How wonderful… if you post a picture below from Coot Club (any illustration you choose) then our resident poet Ruth may turn one of them into a poem! 📖📸✍️👇
#SwallowsAndAmazons
Three million cheers! And also, don’t worry if you don’t 😊
Also apologies but my DMs aren’t working, so email is the way to reach me 😊
Do you remember your first encounter with Coot Club? Coot Club sees Dick and Dorothea in a brand new setting from when we last encountered them in Winter Holiday. What role do you think the Norfolk landscape has in this story? Do you think that the Ds characters develop in this book, compared with Winter Holiday? If so, how? The cast of children in this story are from very different backgrounds from one another. What do you think draws them together? What impression do we get of the ‘Hullabaloos’? How does A.R. convey this? Are there any similarities between the cast of adult characters in Coot Club, and those in the Lake District books?
Tom Dudgeon faces a moral dilemma at the start of the book, and his choices have a lasting impact throughout this story, and arguably also The Big Six. Did he do the right thing?? We hear a lot about yacht racing, with Port and Starboard ably helping their father. At one point A. R. tells us: “The Flash had rounded a mark too close and touched it and so was out of her race.” Radek writes, “a long time ago, when I myself raced, I had to do a 360 after touching the mark”. Have racing rules changed since the 1930s? And why do you think A.R. brings racing into this story? What are your thoughts about the minor characters in Coot Club? Do you have a favourite? A.R. places animals / nature at the heart of this book. What messages is he trying to convey to his readers? What role does the sea play in the finale?
📣📣 Ahoy there shipmates! 📣📣
Ahead of our Coot Club chat on Sunday 12th April, 7pm UK time on Zoom, here are some questions to get us thinking…
If you’d like to join us then email winterholidaychat@gmail.com - I will send the zoom link on Saturday
#SwallowsAndAmazons
Oh so sorry to hear this Ruth - please do pass on very best wishes for a quick recovery. Take care of yourself too xx
A magnificent walk up through the woods to Tarn Hows this morning. Only birdsong and the gentle music of a stream as accompanyment.
I’ll be sharing some prompt questions soon, ahead of our Coot Club chat (Sun 12th April, 7pm UK time).
If you have a question or two you’d like to add into the mix, do drop me a DM with it, or email me at winterholidaychat@gmail.com by the end of today (Wed 8th April)!
Your subconscious definitely gets some cheers
All correct, excellent! And the pyjamas were pink…
Also, bonus cheers for honesty
100% - excellent! Full ration of cheers.
Also yes, completely agree re: boat attire and pyjamas. Comfort and practicality.
And the answers were…
1. Flint; bad; eggs
2. Great Northern?
3. Mr Jemmerling, the egg collector (*shudders*)
Bonus: pink
Take 1000 cheers for each correct answer!
The Mug family.
A photo of the spines of several Jonathan Cape editions of Arthur Ransome books. Two have dust jackets and the rest do not.
QUIZ!
‘I was wrong,' said Captain _____.
'He's not mad but ___.
It isn't only ____ he wants.
He wants to take the credit for it.’
1. Fill in the blanks
2. Which book?
3. Who is ‘he’?
Bonus: what colour pyjamas does ‘he’ favour?
Reply below, answers tomorrow!
#SwallowsAndAmazons