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 clothes and calls
In Grahame’s account of a Victorian childhood, the boys are baffled by the adult penchant for putting on formal clothes...
Dandelion-steeped sunlight
What a heart-warming image of sun-washed memories. May you and your memories be dandelion-steeped in sunlight.
‘Those memorable days that...
Grape-gorged carronade
A vivid evocation of boyhood heroic fantasies.  When the young boy is told off or otherwise put down by the grown...
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:...
May you make the welkin ring!
A literary term for the sky or heaven, from Old English welcin meaning ‘cloud or sky’ and related to Dutch wolk...
Civilised conversation
A fine selection of subjects to talk about with a new acquaintance. This is the boy’s first (and last) encounter...
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...
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...
Sunshine after rain
A bright evocation of the sunshine after rain and the sense of astonishing renewal that comes with it. I like...
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...
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