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Nancy’s Round the Island – the full story: results, statistics, cake

by Peter Willis

The most dramatic episode in Nancy Blackett’s Round the Island adventure actually occurred during the preceding night, when our mooring – on a buoy out in the  Cowes Roads – started to drag. The wind had got up, it was raining hard (in contrast to the weather on both the day before and the day […]

‘Premiere’ of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” a hit at AGM

by Peter Willis

The highlight of the Nancy Blackett Trust’s AGM last Saturday was the first amateur performance from the newly-published playscript of Arthur Ransome’s “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea.” The play, by dramatist Nick Wood, was created for the Ipswich-based Eastern Angles company and toured locally to general acclaim a couple of years ago. The […]

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