Comments on: Messing About in Boats (For Alek)

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:19:33 +0000

Motoring costume. Make that “Toad’s motoring costume”. And yes, put it together with the chaos and the stoats and weasels — that’s life as it should be lived. One version, anyway.

I believe I must be part Ratty and part Toad.

By: Alek Lindus

Alek Lindus — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:54:20 +0000

but Ratty’s little philosophy is my epitaph

By: Alek Lindus

Alek Lindus — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:52:49 +0000

nai! and the goggles and the vehicle and the chaos and all them stoats and weasels

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:55:13 +0000

I always fancied Toad’s driving costume.

By: Marty Heyman

Marty Heyman — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:46:58 +0000

Another great “messing about in boats” book with an emphasis on what we might call “localization” is DRIFTING by Stephen Jones. Just finished rereading it and a small boat is being shipped as I write the (see blog.the-guideboat.com for more).

By: alek

alek — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:33:12 +0000

‘the great mystery of wood is not that it burns but that it floats’
fugitive pieces

thanks Sheila, ratty was always close to me heart, even though i kinda envied the temperament of toad