Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on July 02, 2003 at 10:08:47 from 195.93.32.8 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: what would they be like today? posted by David Bamford on July 01, 2003 at 22:47:36:
is pretty much what I think. It takes a real effort on the part of a parent to allow a child to do something on her or his own, but it is right.
I think the Swallows, the Amazons, the D's and the Coots would be pretty much the same - the gadgetry would have changed, with long life milk rather than daily trips with a churn, and mobile phones rather than pigeons, but not so many other changes.