Swallows & Amazons – Part 1
I am now going to give my interpretation (twist!) of a 1930’s English classic, the first being Swallows and Amazons. Hope you like it. Most of the Walker family were now at ‘Holly Howe’ in the English Lake District, a cottage the mother Mary Walker had rented for the summer holidays. ‘Most’ means everyone except Mary’s husband, who was away on duty with the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean. As a change of scenery, Mary had decided to have a long holiday away from the cramped dirty city where they lived for some fresh air and space where the children could go exploring, and she could get on with the book she was writing. The journey by train was uneventful, however the taxi from the station was rather uncomfortable, as the roads around the area …