The team batten down the hatches at Norman's Bay, blithely hanging on to the roof while they discuss Monica Dickens's 'Mariana', Mary Chamberlain's 'Fenwomen', Ronald Blythe's 'Akenfield', and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's 'Anti-Oedipus'. There is singing, but don't worry, it's not a shanty.