Up and Down in the Dales av Gervase Phinn

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<p><b>Escape to the country with Gervase Phinn''s heartwarming tales of life as a school inspector in Yorkshire</b><br><b><br>''Gervase Phinn''s memoirs have made him a hero in school staff-rooms'' </b><i>Daily Telegraph<br></i>______<br><br><i>What''s your name? I asked the child.<br></i><i>''Tequila,'' she replied. I''m named after a drink.''<br></i><i>''Tequila Sunrise,'' I murmured.<br></i><i>''No,'' pouted the child. ''Tequila Braithwaite.''<br></i><br>Now in his fourth year as an Inspector for English in the Yorkshire Dales, Gervase Phinn still relishes visiting the schools - whether an inner-city comprehensive fraught with difficulties or a small Dales Primary school where the main danger is one of closure. With endless good humour, he copes with the little surprises that occur round every corner.<br><br>Some things never change: Mrs Savage roars, Connie rants, and Gervase''s colleague in the office play verbal ping-pong. But all this can be put behind him each day when he retur