I claim no special insight, but for the further amusement of Heliopausa, and anyone else ( Read more... )

It was going to be what Ann and her father have a blazing row about, but when I started to write about it I discovered it was part of a bigger incident. So the question is, what are John Walker and Peter Marlow going to have a blazing row about?

John allows Peter Marlow to sail Swallow. Peter take a stupid risk to show he's not afraid. Peter ( Read more... )

6. Mrs Marlow spends Christmas day alone. Why?When her children said that Rowan looked “like Mum in the Malta photographs” Pam remembered that first Christmas after they were married. You couldn’t see in the photographs that Giles was on the way. She had told no-one yet except Geoff, not even her mother, whose Christmas card had definitely ( Read more... )

5. Captain Marlow kisses someone he shouldn’t. Who ( Read more... )

4. Ann Marlow and Giles Marlow go to a party together. Who drinks and who drives ( Read more... )

3. Miss Turner (aka the Amazons great aunt) and Peter Marlow are discussing Christmas decorations. What are their opinions ( Read more... )

Admittedly I'm sometimes of the "trying things until they work" school of learning ( Read more... )

(or should I say automobiles for American readers?)
Of course in the 1930s cars were very much less common. So which characters could drive - and which had driving licenses?
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I think Dick Callum and Titty Walker marry in 1941 - probably rather late in 1941. Given the situation at the time, and that they are both involved in making Secret Stuff somewhere in Hertfordshire, they didn't plan to start a family immediately - and don't. By the beginning of 1944 though, they are definitely of the opinion that small Callums ( Read more... )

I've had a few thoughts about Peggy's children too.

The young Bradings
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