Windlesham

But if it were not so, if all Europe frowned upon our enterprise, we would not be worthy to be the sons of our fathers if we did not go forward on the plain path of national duty.

Arthur Conan Doyle, Windlesham, Crowborough, September 1909.

End of introduction and preface.

Chapter One of The Crime of the Congo by A. Conan Doyle.

On Sunday the thirtieth of August, over the long weekend here in the UK, Sam Buduano completed an extraordinary attempt to set a new world record for the longest ever cricket run-up.

He started at Lord's in London and ran just over one hundred kilometers all the way to Valley End Cricket Club in Windlesham, Surrey, where I've been the treasurer for more than ten years, to deliver the opening ball of a T20 match.

The ball was delivered to a good friend of mine, Sam's father, Mark.

Sam has received all kinds of well-deserved attention, and I'd like to add my congratulations here.

But if it were not so, if all Europe frowned upon our enterprise, we would not be worthy to be the sons of our fathers if we did not go forward on the plain path of national duty.

Arthur Conan Doyle, Windlesham, Crowborough, September 1909.

End of introduction and preface.

Chapter 1 of The Crime of the Congo by A. Conan Doyle.

But they wouldn't let you go until you're 18, so I had to wait a year.

So I went and worked for a year, and, uh, I worked at a research laboratory called Eli Lilly's in Windlesham in Surrey, and basically the entire day was, uh, having, um, these glass flasks with samples of fruit products which I had to test for residues.

Right.

So we had all these strawberries and blueberries and, and blackcurrants and things coming in.

I have been tempted sometimes to try the effect upon a larger scale, but meanwhile these short sketches portraying various crises in the story of the human race are to be judged as experiments in that direction.

Arthur Conan Doyle, Windlesham, Crowborough, April 1911.

End of section one.

Section two of The Last Galley, Impressions and Tales.