In Swallows&Amazons, mum telegraphs dad to ask re kids sailing. Reply: "Better drowned than duffers STOP If not duffers will not drown STOP"
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Brilliant. I'd forgotten that
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Don't want to sew a doubt in your mind but have they even gone to the pool ?
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TBH I wouldn't have given them quite so much room for manoeuvre.
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No tweeting derogatory remarks about provincial towns?
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What was derogatory about it?
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Saying if you were there you'd be despairing enough to take hostages
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Neither would be their fault, negligent parenting
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What about that classic of the swimming pool rules, "No heavy petting"?
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You forgot "no smoking, petting, acrobatics, running, bombing etc"
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Lose goggles
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BBC goggles are un-losable, of course...
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or ever vote Labour would be my third piece of advice
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Great advice as always


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