The Doings of David and Peter - Oddments
Not all the articles and writings featuring the children were included in the final published version of the "Doings of David and Peter". These oddments and short pieces of writing as I find and transcribe them are collected here. They provide a fore taste of what was to come as her writing style evolved, alongside the exploits and characters of her growing family as they started to discover the world.
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Eggs
One of the short sketch style pieces recounting the exploits of David and Peter that didnt fit the YEP or develop into a full scene that could feature in the Doings.
I wonder if this example of “mess making” was from before or after the made by Peter with sugar on the kitchen floor mentioned in “Absent Friends”?
Eggs
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Whoops!
A different take on the events that inspired the Prize Winning “How I would like to spend my holidays” competition entry in the Review of Review.
Whoops!
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Peter Solves The Pancake Question
This feels to me like something that links into the world of "Little Bim Bambo ".
Peter Solves The Pancake Question
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The Birthday Present
This comes across as a draft of thougths fromt the time of "The Education probelm" and "The World of School".
The Birthday Present
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Cocktail in the nursery
In later years Bim Bambo would have been blamed for this!
Cocktail in the nursery
