Me again. Apparently Dawlish is famous for its black swans. So both things are true.

Or on rereading, I think it is because he is going to a 'waterfowl centre' - some kind of young offenders institute I assume. He will be pretty locked down.

I think there are swans of his species there, so they will keep him in line?

Reminds me of the time the sheep broke into the school playing field in our village. That was a great day.

I am so with this endeavour/ endeavor! The other week it wouldn't accept roman - what?

I'm not at the conference but this looks really interesting. I'll look out the OSF pre-reg

It does seem strange to give so much prominence to a ten year old commentary