Wondering how best to get this bright new year off to a good start?  Follow this sound advice from the Swallows & Amazons family.   

I got up early to make what I thought were muffins until, having liberally adapted the recipe, I realized it was meant to be for scones.  Proud therefore to announce the invention of a new breakfast idea, ‘scoffins’. 

Have a wonderful, healthy, happy year. 

‘Where do we begin?’ asked Roger.

‘With breakfast,’ said Susan.  

Source: Arthur Ransome, Secret Water (London: Vintage, 2014 (1939)), p. 74

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