These TRs were dictated to me by the children. The spelling
is my own; the grammar (or lack of it) theirs.
Emily (5) - a walk around Brotherswater
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Well I walked with you (i.e. me) and June and we walked around
from the sand and we walked on the beach and there was sand[1]
on the beach. We went for a little walk and we crossed the
road on to the pavement. We walked in muddy puddles. We saw
a badger by the road, it was dead and it can't walk. It had
a bad leg. It had three legs but it was dead. We didn't see
a green dragon or a red dragon on the trees but we saw
puddles. We found the campsite and the others weren't there.
We had lunch and me and June we played cards she teached me a
game[2] but I didn't win, did I.
[1] Strange sort of sand, but if that's her interpretation of
the small pebbles around the water's edge who am I to question
it?
[2] Beg o' my neighbour
Nicky (7) - a walk with Dave Fawthrop and Thomas
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I went over the cattle grid. I went for a walk around the
hills. I passed a big lake. I looked before i crossed the
road. I stepped into a big puddle and my foot got wet and I
kept on walking and I saw big huge rocks. I thought it was
rocktopia because it was all big rocks. I saw stones and a
broken wall and I kept on walking until I decided to go back
to the campsite I just walked.
Thomas (10) - with Dave Fawthrop and Nicky (aka Pickle)
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I walked over the cattle grid and we came to a place where we
went through a field full of sheep with baby lambs running all
over the place. We went round through a wood on a hill past
Brotherswater (I think). On the way Nicholas thought he could
see lots of badger holes but I don't think many badgers were
living in them because they were very shallow. Then we
started to come to a road but we were going on the side of it
behind a fence and then the path went away from the road into
the woods and it was really quite fun. We were climbing
around tree trunks and then the path went back to the road
again. Then we came to another field full of sheep and there
was a lane leading to a stile which we climbed over on to a
lane which led to a bit of a farm. At the side of it there
were stairs going up with a sign saying 'to Patterdale'. We
went up the steps to Patterdale and there was a notice about
squirrel pox at the end. On we went to a little village at
Patterdale and had some ice creams then we stopped for lunch
under a tree in a cemetary. We went along the road, through a
few woods and the path forked at the end. We took one fork
but it led to a farm and was a dead end so we doubled back and
took the other fork. That one led to a place where the path
forked again with notices to two farms. We went to one of
them (Elms something?) then we kept on walking through more
fields and came to a slightly more rocky path. Before we knew
it we were walking through a field with lots of rocks in it.
Nicky and I had a whale of a time climbing over them. We came
to a place with two paths: a bridge going back and a path
going on. I was all for going on but Dave and Nicky wanted to
go back so I was outvoted and turned back. On the way back we
found the old ruins of an old barn. We got back to the
campsite at about tea time.
So now you know. Or not, as the case may be :-)
--
"Some witty person in rec.arts.sf.composition (I forget who)
called them
feral apostrophes. Untamed, unregulated, they roam the wastes
of the
English language and pop up where lea'st expected."