Posted by Peter Hyland on April 10, 2007 at 12:57:02 from 86.130.121.31 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: Relevance to AR. was Re: Right to Roam? posted by Peter Ceresole on April 10, 2007 at 08:34:42:
Surely any relevance to AR should be in the postees mind BEFORE posting and not searched for AFTER to justify the posting?
Hear hear - bull's eye, Peter Roche! It is possible, with tongue in cheek, to contrive a link to AR to any topic one can think of, using a 'House that Jack Built' logic to justify your posting. Some may call it ingenuity, I call it a tad dishonest. Topics like the Right to Roam, the pioneer Kinder Scout mass trespass, and the Labour Government's reforms after the 1939-45 War, are indeed fascinating but are best left eg to the Guardian newspaper chatsite. To allege that Ransome wrote about the state of British society and therefore any sociological issue is on-topic just won't wash. To my recall, most of the kerfuffles on this board have been caused by off-topic meanderings. Please let's have Ransome, Ransome and then more Ransome.
Jock - it seems to me that chained-off Broads are mentioned in Ransome and therefore the topic needs no contrived justification! I read your posts thereon with interest . . . .