Re: Amazons' class (Was The S&A Films


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on September 04, 2006 at 17:41:08 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.

In Reply to: Re: Amazons' class (Was The S&A Films posted by PeterH on September 04, 2006 at 16:18:22:

Have you noticed that in the books we never read what is in Nancy's mind?

That could well be because she's not the reflective kind. What she does is what she is.

I have a sister in law, an absolutely splendid woman, who has that same unquenchable spirit, even now (she's well past 65). She has that gung-ho, clear voiced energy. A one woman wave of action. When her four children were grown up and she no longer took them on adventure holidays [1] she started to take her own- she was a consultant anaesthetist and for several years she's been taking her summer holidays working for the International Red Cross on the Cambodian border, Rwanda and other genuinely nasty places. In quiet years, she joins friends on 4WD treks; the last one was through Southern Russia and into China. I've known her very well for forty years, like her enormously, wish I had a quarter of her energy, but have never had a soul-to-soul discussion because that's not her style. Any more than it's Nancy's.

AR really did know what he was doing, and he left soul to Titty and Dorothea.

[1] Adventure holidays with her children were, in the winter, in the mountains and in the summer by the water; lakes or sea. Her two sons sailed all the time, still do. One was sailmaster on 'Merit' for two Whitbread round the world races, now has his own successful sailmaking business, still races 5.5s at international championship level. He's not given to deep introspection either.


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