![]() Knit!”Īttempts were made to teach me to knit. “ The sort of things I want to do they don’t want me to do an’ the sort of things I don’t want to do they want me to do. I read some of these stories to my kid, but we also had Martin Jarvis reading on tapes and CDs for car journeys. “ William, goaded to desperation, burst into a flood of eloquence.” ![]() Some aspects of the books are, of course, very dated, but there's plenty of charm, fun, good writing: Image: It turns out "grain entrapment" is a thing. ![]() Walking across open topped grain silos, balancing on a narrow plank of wood, was the riskiest. There were things I got up to that were quite dangerous, but my family never knew at the time. I read and reread the Just William books as a child - some were my mother’s copies.Īs a tomboy, who spent a lot of time on my grandparents’ farm, I identified firmly with the Outlaws, including their attitude to Violet Elizabeth Bott. ![]()
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