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The ditch was full and there was the thrill of seeing how often one could jump across it without going in. The hedges, when shaken, sent quite a shower bath down upon the shaker, which also is a pleasant sensation. In the road there were puddles, and the sensation of walking through a puddle, as every boy knows, is a very pleasant one. There were some quite interesting things to do outside. But I can sew just enough for essentials (buttons and hems). 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.