Posted by Carla on August 16, 2006 at 11:33:22 from 193.114.74.2 user carla.
In Reply to: Re: hello! posted by PeterH on August 15, 2006 at 21:43:15:
Hi Peter, thanks for the warm welcome!
Funny you should ask that - I identify very well with the Swallows, Amazons and Ds, all of them in different ways, and I think this is partly due to my own nature, and partly due to the way I was brought up. My parents are fantastic and quite easy going now, but as a child I was taught more old fashioned values than, unfortunately, are taught to children today, even within my own extended family.
Dad loved Swallows and Amazons as a child, and bought them for me as soon as he considered me old enough to fully appreciate them, and as a child they were captivating. As a young adult they are even more alluring, and I empathise even more with the characters within them.
I think I'm probably most like Titty - my imagination goes off at random uncontrollable tangents, and I'm completely capable of living in a daydream even when working (as I am at the moment), and utterly incapable of conceiving of an adult life without books like S&A, or without some childish escapism. AR lives indeed! (and I'm doing my best to convert my decidedly un-bookish boyfriend, who thinks I'm crazy but quite fancies the idea of sailing in the Lake District!!)
I should probably add that while I fit into "today's" generation, I have been told that I'm different and eccentric (compliments), and should have been born 20 or 30 years earlier (backhanded compliment!)
Sorry, that was a ridiculously long post! Nice to "meet" you!