The poetic dragon
One of the most imaginative tales in Kenneth Grahame’s Dream Days concerns a reluctant dragon. He has no interest in dragonly archetypes:...
The best room in the palace
How do you impress a girl on first meeting? By divulging details of the chocolate room in your dream palace, of...
Be careful what you promise
This precedes an account in which the remote gods called ‘grown ups’ casually promise a trip to the circus which...
Grape-gorged carronade
A vivid evocation of boyhood heroic fantasies.  When the young boy is told off or otherwise put down by the grown...
Running away to sea
At least in his imagination, this boy runs away to sea after being banished to the nursery or lifted by...
On writing letters
The wryness of Kenneth Grahame’s Dream Days is captured here in describing the cultural activity of choice for his younger...
A perfect blue sky
'The sky was a fleckless blue…' - I liked this way of conveying a perfect blue sky.
Source: Kenneth Grahame, Dream...
St Helena in the nursery
Napoleon’s exile invoked to stand for banishment to the nursery. But the visitor deserved the rudeness. She had been enumerating...
Footprints in the snow
Not that I think the world is drab-coloured, but this does evoke the magical moment of waking up to snow...
Civilised conversation
A fine selection of subjects to talk about with a new acquaintance. This is the boy’s first (and last) encounter...
A budding thrust and foison
An archaic word for abundance or to describe a rich harvest, it also refers to physical energy, power or strength, or...
A sensible sort of room
The boy slips out of a deadly dull afternoon tea in which two ladies are talking about clothing. He finds...
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