Tony Walker

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransom.

These are sailing stories for kids.

I loved them growing up.

Loved them.

Loved them with a northern ooh growing up.

And he sets one of them.

Is it the Picton?

No, the Picton and Martyrs set them in Scotland.

I can't remember.

There's a couple of them set in East Anglia in the Norfolk Broads.

The Norfolk Broads, a network of rivers and lakes in eastern England.

formed interestingly from flooded medieval peat digging.

So it was a bog that had been dug out extensively over centuries and then was flooded by the sea.

Although I think they're freshwater.

So they're flooded in any case.

So, and they brought Dutch engineers in to drain, so it's actually, some of it's below sea level, and they, somebody may correct me on that, but I've just had one of those.

Is it?

But anyway, it's liable to flooding, and they brought Dutch engineers in, and they built windmills to get rid of the water.

So the area is extremely flat, it's watery, and it's remote.

So remember, M.R.