Oh, the Lake District is so beautiful! It's like fairyland.
The Arthur Ransome Society
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Arthur was born in 1884 in Leeds. The Society was set up to popularise his many books (not just for children) and encourage research into his life and work. https://arthur-ransome.org/
The daily photo. Castlerigg stone circle, English Lake District. Oct.2017
06:29 #GlasgowCentral to #LondonEuston due 11:12 06:29 Glasgow Central to London Euston due 11:12 will no longer call at Penrith North Lakes, Oxenholme Lake District and Lancaster. #AvantiWestCoast
My camera roll? I boat I like? I can't even convey how much I love Japonica from Martham Boats on the Norfolk broads. I spent 3 days smiling on this boat.
Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, 1886 by Shelton D. flashbak.com/life-and-lan... Original version is provided by @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org : archive.org/details/mma_... Books by P. H. Emerson at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #art #photography
Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like. Swallow, from the 2016 Swallows and Amazons film. (c. 1950, currently at the Windermere Jetty Museum)
Scary Berry@berryh.bsky.social · 3d agoGo to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like. From my trip to the Rijksmuseum back in March.
Yes. We had a long conversation about kids books. Ones currently reading swallows and amazons to his daughter. Makes me want to find a kid so I can read to it.
Reed bed swimming pool. Heritage orchard. Boat. (Not a yacht. A swallows-and-amazons style, messing-about-in kind of boat.)
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d agoquestion for the audience: if you were ultra rich (let’s say $25M), what completely frivolous thing are you buying?
I maintain that "but Uncle Jim said that Amazons were ruthless" is one of the funniest lines in literature. I think I'm probably Titty. 🙃 Also Jo in Little Women (obvz) and Petrova in Ballet Shoes.
My theory on this, having grown up on older 'classic' kids books, is that they often featured *groups* of kids, boys and girls - Swallows & Amazons, Coot Club, Famous Five, Secret Seven, 5 Children and It, Silver Sword, Secret Garden etc. Yes, there was division, but also lots of books for both...
My dad loved Arthur Ransome so introduced me to S and A at a young age. Appeal for boys and girls (I always aspired to be Capt Nancy Blackett but suspect I was actually Susan 🤣).
Malcolm Saville, "the thinking child’s Enid Blyton", ceebrated by @lordbonkers.bsky.social. thelionandunicorn.com/2026/10/17/m...
Malcolm Saville & the children’s holiday adventure
JONATHAN CALDER celebrates one of the great children’s writers – somewhere between Arthur Ransome and Enid Blyton.
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*ahem *devotion to Arthur Ransome, with specific Pigeon Post alignment *on walking up to Copper mines we kept saying: if not duffers won't drown, I'd duffers better off drowned. A fine time was had with @chrisroutledge.bsky.social & @jenscotney.bsky.social amongst many others on the read through
John Pearson TARS Secretary 1st March 1938 – 3rd May 2026 ‘He died living’ and doing what he loved. “John had a sudden heart attack on the Isle of Lewis. He had been our Secretary since 2017. He fulfilled the role perfectly, and is sorely missed by TARS. A keen hill walker he bagged all 282 Munros
A cloudy, rain-threatening day, 27 TARS gathered and ticketed at Waterhead for a 1 hour cruise to Lakeside on 'Teal' (Barrow built 1936) a three decked ship with excellent facilities. Original capacity 700, now reduced to 533 with a crew of 6. Loudspeaker commentary gave us little factual jewels.
In July, Jim Ring, TARS East committee member welcomed Mikako Tarashima and a group of visitors from the Arthur Ransome Club of Japan to Hunters Yard on the Broads, home of 'Swallow' and 'Amazon'. The ARCJ will celebrate its 40th anniversary next year.
Lake District: UK's first world heritage national park - in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/travel/gallery/2017/jul/10/lake-district-the-uks-first-world-heritage-national-park-in-pictures?CMP=share_btn_tw
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S&A was also a 6-episode (but only 25 minutes each) TV series. Apparently Ransome hated it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow...
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ps i’ve read all the swallows and amazons and love them though i will say susan breaks my goddamn heart every time
Surely Swallows and Amazons or the famous five could lend themselves to episodic adaptation? If good you can even have an overarching plot
A message from Wild films about their project 'The Worst Journey in the World'. They are currently in post-production with a film about Captain Scott. Presumably including his companions we hope! www.wildfilms.co.uk/worst-journe...
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For TARS Members. On Zoom. Take turns to read a few pages - it's up to you whether you prefer to read or listen. Don't worry if you can't make every session - catch up on your own ready for the next one. The book is The Picts and the Martyrs with sessions 4pm-6pm on Sundays.
Emergency crews called to incident at boatyard on Norfolk Broads #Norfolk
Emergency crews called to incident at boatyard on Norfolk Broads
Emergency services are responding to an incident at Herbert Woods Boatyard in Potter Heigham, Norfolk, with police, ambulance and Coastguard crews at the scene.
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Aurora over the Lake District this evening - I've seen it from here many times and in Iceland and - love seeing it where I live! 10.10.26 #aurora #northernlights @cumbriaguide.bsky.social @bbc5live.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @metoffice.gov.uk
Swallows and Amazons. Start in the Lakes, introduce the D's, go as far as Pigeon Post Spin off in the Broads (D's and locals) Dream Sequence for Peter Duck (skip Missee Lee) Final season is Picts and Martyrs then straight into Great Northern ? 20-30 solid story telling hours there.
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome? There are 12 books in the series. TBH the problem may be that even in the ‘60s I found them a bit old fashioned. That could well just be me.
Arthur ransome wrote 12 kids adventure books and the most famous, swallows and Amazons, filled a movie pretty easily.