http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum This is the Arthur Ransome society's message Forum. To post to this forum you must be a member of the Arthur Ransome society and have logged into the site using your username and password. If you are a member and do not have a username and password, please send your name, address and membership number to 'tarsnet@arthur-ransome.org' daily 1 2008-09-12T10:08:46Z http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/the-books/241227399/310801396/view As a child I do not remember this being a problem, possibly because English summers were rarely that hot. Not that I had the chance often to take chocolate ... 2010-07-28T13:53:22Z Comment http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/the-books/622193253/357687813/view I still find the sailing in the dark episode in SA quite scary, more so as a parent. The chances of hitting a rock or being run down by a motor boat are high. ... 2010-07-25T02:44:19Z Comment http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/the-books/241227399/997335489/view Even in the 1930's, chocolate was wrapped in silver paper which acts as a heat reflector. Providing the chocolate was cool to start with (kept in the ... 2010-07-25T02:32:33Z Comment http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/the-tars-website/107322949/66522306/view When are the Characters,  Real People, and Real Places going to be finished? I remember when I first got on this site, I found them right off. I was ... 2010-07-24T20:33:57Z Comment http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/the-books/241227399/382854537/view Yah, and I don't think the non melty stuff was invented yet. But maybe it was stored against something cool. I had a chocolate I had meant to give to my ... 2010-07-23T01:32:53Z Comment http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/the-books/241227399/656126092/view The hot weather is a major feature of PP. Susan regularly doles out rations of chocolate, which is carried around in knapsacks. Surely it would be disgustingly ... 2010-07-22T18:25:37Z Comment http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/sailing/117826583/825824833/view Nicholas, we seem to have taken over Deirdre's thread (sorry Deidre) I will reply by e-mailing you direct. I have your address from Rob B. 2010-07-21T20:45:37Z Comment http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/tars-general-discussion/471074082/459478547/view Huh. Well, that's the opposite coast for me. Heh heh. My friend goes to Florida to visit her grandma though, and she's says I should come some time.....But I ... 2010-07-21T17:38:03Z Comment http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/polls/699221212/804147441/view Cool! I voted on Secret Water. 2010-07-21T17:34:55Z Comment http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/the-books/622193253/77786905/view The thing that scared me the most as a child was being stuck in the middle of the Red Sea. It seemed to go on for ages. As usual, AR was excellent at ... 2010-07-21T10:57:12Z Comment http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/sailing/803625214/571439472/view http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/sport1/hi/other_sports/disability_sport/8822988.stm   Well done team GB. 2010-07-21T10:43:26Z Comment http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/polls/699221212/563017548/view Hello,Ive made a polling station for the books here it is: http://www.arthur-ransome.org/Members/ndpike/arthur-ransome-books 2010-07-20T17:51:32Z Comment http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/sailing/117826583/11296840/view Hi Peter, you have got a nice boat,it must look about the same as Swallow. How often do you sail it? 2010-07-20T17:26:48Z Comment http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/sailing/117826583/90241815/view Nicholas.......... my boat is a Drascombe Scaffie (see pics on google) and it lives on a mooring near Waterhead. There are 4 Scaffies on Windermere & 3 of ... 2010-07-19T15:18:00Z Comment http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/tars-general-discussion/471074082/313782548/view Probably starting in  Florida, up the east coast of the US and Canada, and then across the north Atlantic. But that's mostly speculation now, with a ... 2010-07-18T23:46:18Z Comment http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/sailing/117826583/606143897/view I do the sailing at the Lakes Lesiure Windermere on saturday and I'm doing stage 2 after the summer holidays with my mum. What type of boat do you sail? 2010-07-18T18:07:19Z Comment http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/tars-junior-forum/133888645/850292281/view Yesterday I went mini golfing, and the place had a fake pirate ship (there was actually a real old boat in the water) but you could not go on it. I though this ... 2010-07-18T16:01:42Z Comment http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/sailing/117826583/684143001/view I went yesterday (different lake- 3 1/2 hours away at my grandparents' house).   Heh heh.  2010-07-18T15:56:01Z Comment http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/tars-general-discussion/471074082/321340180/view Ha ha-what part of the US??? If it's anywhere near me I could be a stowaway!  2010-07-18T15:50:32Z Comment http://www.arthur-ransome.org/forum/tars-general-discussion/471074082/535873658/view Great- it looks as if I may get to next year's AGM by square-rigger from the US. The movie replica of BOUNTY, http://tallshipbounty.org , is probably going ... 2010-07-18T06:00:03Z Comment