Posted by Jock on January 26, 2008 at 08:56:07 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Puffin picture books - Sailing posted by John Lambert on January 26, 2008 at 01:33:44:
Interesting comment about this girl's mother wriing a book about their adventures.
How wonderful it is to be able to rely on machine intelligence when one's own brain cells start turning to mush and memories fade to a thin thread! Armed only with the nickname of the author, "Rosie", I played around with Amazon and hey presto the author and book tumbled out. The book that I remembered was Children Of Cape Horn by Rosie Swale.
Rambo would die in a hail of lead as soon as he got off his first shot... Today, movie heroes wield armament that would stop a tank.
An interesting observation. Some kids demolish a tank regiment every day while eating breakfast. Of course, that is only virtual reality... then when they get a little older some youngsters get to do it for real.