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A Provincial Lady visits the Abbey by constantlearner
Fandoms: Abbey Girls - Elsie J. Oxenham, The Diary of a Provincial Lady - Hudson/Pearse
09 Apr 2020
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When tragedy strikes the visiting speaker, the WI appeals to the provincial lady. Plumbing issues mean that Vicky and Mademoiselle must accompany the lady on her visit to the Hall. With the Marchwood twins involved there is bound to be a life-threatening accident.
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Colonel Dedshott gets married by constantlearner
Fandoms: Dad's Army, Professor Branestawm - Norman Hunter
29 Aug 2018
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This is a Professor Branestawm story with a few Dad’s army characters and a very slight nod to Jasper Fforde in Chapter 2. It is probably best to imagine this as taking place in the 1930s. Sergeant Fastenluce and the Printenpays are my own invention. The events in the flat above Mrs Pushnpull’s pram emporium are describe by me in a previous story, but anyone familiar with the Professor will be able to guess at what happened. I know the story should be complete in one chapter, but the story doesn’t know that.
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- 26
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 6
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Roger and the Marlows by constantlearner
Fandoms: The Marlows - Antonia Forest, Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
24 Aug 2017
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Starting in summer 1950 and taking place over the next few years.
Roger Walker met his friend Jon's family once, on a visit to Trennels the day Jon Marlow died in a test flight. Now he meets Jon's cousins again. -
Professor Branestawm and the cat ejector (and suction cat retriever) by constantlearner for Felix - who said the device needed inventing
Fandoms: Professor Branestawm - Norman Hunter
27 Oct 2016
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The professor invents a device to help a friend of Colonel Dedshott.
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In which Titty and Dorothea notice something odd and a short adventure ensues by constantlearner for mrsredboots
Fandoms: Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
15 Dec 2015
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It's the summer after Great Northern? John has joined the navy and Susan is now Captain of the Swallow-if only they had Swallow. Unfortunately there are other visitors at Holly Howe this summer who are learning to sail in Swallow. The holiday isn't quite as good as Susan hoped - until Titty and Dorothea embroil Susan and Peggy in an adventure.
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Vale, Pater by constantlearner for Heliopause
Fandoms: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
05 Apr 2015
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1949. Viscount St George died in 1940. Dorothea, his wife for 1 month and widow for 9 years, is soon to remarry. Jerry has visited his cousin, Bredon Wimsey, to speak to him about the matter, and has now decided to visit his father, Gerald Wimsey before giving up his ghostly form for (he hopes) good.
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Islands by constantlearner
Fandoms: Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome, Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
18 Mar 2015
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Set in 1949, Dorothea, now a moderately successful author, goes to stay with Nancy and John and their daughters on Malta, where John is stationed. Later in the same summer, Dorothea, Dick and Titty, along with the small Callums then revisit the Hebrides. (I've got Port and Starboard as Nell and Bess in by copy of coot club (not a first ed.) so went with Port being Nell and Starboard being Bess.) If I've got it wrong, I'm sorry.
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Baltic Adventure by constantlearner
Fandoms: Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome, Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
01 Jan 2015
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Set spring/ summer 1938. With war increasingly likely, the Admiralty need updated charts of the Baltic Sea. Amateur yachtsmen and women are discretely asked to help with this, under the guise of leisurely pleasure cruising. The Swallow, Amazons and Callums are among them. Naval Lieutenant John Walker has been asked to do a little more than that and Nancy inevitably gets involved the task. Involves danger and some (not graphic) violence in a few chapters. A warning will be put at the start of any chapter with a fight. (I've had a complaint, via a different site, that I should have given a trigger warning for Nazis. I thought Berlin 1938 would be sufficient and that anyone who really needed that warning would know what the dates and place implied, or look it up, not just say they "couldn't be bothered to check." I was wrong. I still feel angry at the complainant's implied contempt for those who actually suffered contrasted with her extreme care for herself.)
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Successful Author by constantlearner
Fandoms: Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome, Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers, The Marlows - Antonia Forest
15 Sep 2014
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Dorothea Wimsey - Lady St George is becoming a successful author of adventurous historical romances - or romantic historical adventures, depending on your point of view. She uses her maiden name as a pen name, but this has done little to mollify the Duchess of Denver.
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Dorothea, Duchesses, Dudgeons and Daughters by constantlearner
Fandoms: Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome, Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
06 Sep 2014
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This it the first part of a story I originally posted elsewhere as Pieces. That narrated events in chronological order. I decided to see if the story works better split into three connected sections not with every scene strictly chronological. If any reader has had the patience read the both versions, I would love to know which structure you prefer.
In 1945, Dorothea's work at Bletchley Park has finished. She is wondering what happens next, but she isn't the only one.Series
- Part 1 of Pieces
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Late September 1944. At a small, quiet war time wedding somewhere in the south-east of England, Susan Walker is concerned about something. A Peggy-centric story.
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St Elisabeth of Hungary by constantlearner
Fandoms: Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
03 Sep 2014
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Chapter 1: July 1944. Operation "Outward" is nearing it's end. Nancy Walker, in Felixstowe, thinks about events three weeks previously in London.
Chapter 2: March 1945. Bridget Walker reads a telegram not addressed to her and makes a decision. -
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The war time experiences of one of the Coot Club. The violence is only referred to and not graphically described. Reference to real life war crime. Based on two real-life stories. Not a comfort read.
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Gerry Wimsey falls in love. by constantlearner
Fandoms: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers, Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
31 Aug 2014
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The story starts in June 1940. Jerry Wimsey goes to a dance and meets Dorothea Callum.
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The War and Titty Walker by constantlearner
Fandoms: Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome, Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
30 Aug 2014
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Set between September 1938 and just before the Dunkirk evacuations in 1940. Some overlap with "September", "Letters and Amazons", and "Fishing" by Calluna Felix. Dorothy L Sayers characters have only cameo roles and walk-ons.
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Set in September and early October 1939. Mainly from Peggy's POV. Bridget Walker, along with Elspeth and Colin, the children of "Mac" who owns Seabear have been evacuated to Beckfoot.
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Letters and Amazons by constantlearner
Fandoms: Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome, Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
26 Aug 2014
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Mainly in the form of letters to, from and about the Amazon pirates between August 1938 and August 1939.
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Set in the Easter Holidays after Great Northern?
How the Amazons left school. Nancy is determined. Even first mates have "results day." -
Molesworth and Walker 2 by constantlearner
Fandoms: Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome, Molesworth - Geoffrey Willans (ill. Ronald Searle)
04 Aug 2014
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Roger Walker arrives at St Custards as a New Bug. Molesworth narrates events.