Not one of my drawings .... I think it comes from "Coot Club" ..... one of Arthur Ransome's brilliant stories ...... I read them all avidly in my early teens, and wondered if I would ever go to the Norfolk Broads ..... and I did ... many, many times .... Here's a "fascinating" and "accurate" index for you all to peruse. And as an added bonus, it is a rather unusual one. But, dear readers, where has it come from ? Afternoon, sunny 103 Afro, frizzy, huge 183 Algae, choking 13 Boys, bigger 113 Chimpanzee, looked like 133 Columns, rows, studied 263 Door, back 63 Element, fluttering in his 163 If you leave me too, dancing to 233 January, 2004 173 Kitchen, papered, peach-psychedelic 73 Knot, jammed, tight 223 Ladybird, change of 3 Number, 8 193 Portswood, favourite place 23 Potential, collective 33 Reaction, mother's 203 Room, told to go up to 123 Rumps, legs, biting 43 Static, irritable, buzzing with 273 Sunspots, lightning bright 253 Stuff, banging, tree, up for 83 Sky, piece of , my 143 Tail, fanned 53 Tiles, squeaky 153 Vehicle, Pursuit, Dinky Spectrum 93 Viewpoint 243 Waiting, bored 213 After all that excitement, some music ..... an absolute belter ! Manu ...... "T'es bo, t'es con " Unfortunately, there are no prizes for the solution .... except the wonderfulness of knowing it.
It has drizzled steadily all day today ..... normally we would have hated it ... but it was the first significant rain for many, many bone-dry days. So we were pleased, having started to wonder if it would never rain again in what is usually a pretty soggy place to live.
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