>I suspect this is the same book that PB was brandishing and enthusing wildly about during a somewhat well lubricated party at Whitby Festival in the last summer of his life.< Good chance, I'd say: according to my 1991 diary, the book came into my keeping the following week. > Do the Watersons appear, thinly-disguised, in the book by any chance?< No, but Martin & Norma's kitchen does! >I have to say that on an admittedly cursory examination I pronounced the book the most utter tosh, and a spirited discussion ensued.< Interestingly, that was my reaction too to the first ten pages or so. As in so many things today, one needs to persevere...
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