So did I, under compulsion. Loathed the bloody thing.
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Ah, I stole it from my brother’s bookcase and read it privily, so I liked it. I must have been about six, I suppose…
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Dolphin fish?
Umm…
Ah. I see. Not a dolphin at all.
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I had to make the bluddy thing from balsa wood string and extravagant amounts of glue
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The leather forrit came from my friend’s Fambly Tannery,as was
Carinthia.xx
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Utterly pointless, all this build-your-own-volcano-type shite. Takes a disproportionately long time compared with conventional prep, too.
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I quite liked it as I was in my own group of one rather than with the boys on the desk behind me
They relentlessly bullied me and I felt unable to say anything as it wasn’t a THING in those days for schools or parents to worry about
So my raft and I were happy together
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While I remember disliking it intensely when I was an Upper Third, so nearly twice your age, I cannot say in any detail what it was I took against. Deep Gloom and Resentment come back vividly, though ;- )
Oh, apart from it being inflicted on us by the English department and it being neither English nor (officially, at any rate) fiction.
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I rather liked a mad bloke setting out to do something completely dappy, and actually succeeding. I knew he must have survived because otherwise how would he he have written the book, so I didn’t have to worry about it…
I came to it from Gerald Durrell, also mad.
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Ah, now I loved Durrell. Read on a purely voluntary basis!
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Thor Heyerdahl was clearly a bit mad to start with, and then he spent the war with the Free Norwegian Forces in the far north…
I have seen the actual vessel in Oslo, many years ago.
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“You fool! We’re 9,000 miles off course!”
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I have just had my first paddle of 2020 and probably the last for a long long time if I read the runes correctly
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Depends on whether the sea comes to visit you…
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Seeing as we’re at an elevation of 110 metres AMSL, if the sea comes to visit us it really will be pretty dramatic 
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I will just set our deckchairs on the beach by the back door when it happens
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Hot Buttered Crumpets available.
I appear to have been busy doing not very much on the Heavy Domestic/Domestos front, but the dishwasher has been put through its cleaning paces, & there are fewer cobwebs than there were…
Treat tonight will be rare roast beef wiv shallots, green beans & roasted Martyrs. Well, it would be rude not to…
Carinthia.xx
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Hold on to it - they’re going to be much needed for navigating a certain creek…
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[swoooooopity]
[happy peckity]
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Leave some for the rest of us wee birdie!
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