Before I starting this blog, we had a month or so during which we read Swallows & Amazons. When I say 'Swallows & Amazons', what I mean is the series, that's all 12 books. And when I say 'we read', what I mean is *I* read to the girls. All of them, one after the other, for several hours a day. I was occasionally allowed a break for a cuppa or to cook meals!
K & M became Susan and Titty first (occasionally Titty and Roger) and sailed everywhere (sometimes on foot, sometimes on scooters), tacking into the wind when necessary. Fortunately when the wind was strong and M got a bit far ahead for my liking calling 'Able seaman! Wait please.' was acceptable, I kept 'Titty' for when we were at home. After a while they became the Amazons, Nancy and Peggy, most of the time. I made them some hats and we set sail...
...on the boating lake at the university.
After an interlude in Narnia among other places, we heard that Swallows & Amazons was coming to the theatre in Nottingham and we bought some tickets to go with a schooly friend this weekend (otherwise we would undoubtedly have been going on Thursday with the HE booking of over 100 people!).
Today at Fun Club, we had Swallows & Amazons as a theme and so among other things, we made flags,
and peg pirate people. K's is called Peggy (but not the one from S&A), wears a skirt and has a hook for a hand and a scar on her face, and that's a sword she's holding in her good hand.
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