Better not duffer be.

I'm sitting here hoping that my grandson is somewhere in the midst of this scenery in a tent just waking up to cook his breakfast. He has trouble sleeping when not at home and went off for the three day expedition canoeing down the Great Glen looking a bit white and worried but fingers crossed he will have been tired enough to zone out. His mum and I are nervously quoting and requoting that telegram from the father in 'Swallows and Amazons': "Better drowned if duffers: if not duffers won't drown.' He isn't a duffer so...