![]() ![]() Otters were my favourite animal – Philip Wayre’s The River People was rarely left in the local library. ![]() I took anything by BB (Denys Watkins Pitchford), author of Brendon Chase and Bill Badger. (Nothing was as fascinating as the beetle who had crawled into the pages and been reproduced in the facsimile.) One day a supply teacher entranced our class of six-year-olds with Edith Holden’s Country Diary. ![]() On reading After London: Wild England, William Morris made these dark comments: “I have no more faith than a grain of mustard seed in the future history of civilisations: which I know now is doomed to destruction, probably before very long – what a joy it is to think of! And how it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world and real feelings and passions taking the place of our wretched hypocrises”.Įarlier, I had inherited Enid Blyton’s Country Walks with Uncle Merry from my brothers (I doubt Uncle Merry would pass many checks these days). ![]()
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