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Up and Down in the Dales (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780141011318)
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xEscape to the country with Gervase Phinn's heartwarming tales of life as a school inspector in Yorkshire
'Gervase Phinn's memoirs have made him a hero in school staff-rooms' Daily Telegraph
______ What's your name? I asked the child.
'Tequila, ' she replied. I'm named after a drink.'
'Tequila Sunrise, ' I murmured.
'No, ' pouted the child. 'Tequila Braithwaite.'
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. 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 returns home to his lovely wife, Christine, who is expecting their first baby. Up and Down in the Dales is charming montage of Gervase Phinn's experiences will keep you amused and will win a place in your heart. Gervase Phinn has an extraordinary talent to entertain, and the latest instalment to the Dale Series is heart-warming, wry and will make you laugh out loud.
Author: Gervase Phinn
ISBN-10: 0141011319
ISBN-13: 9780141011318
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 09/24/2009
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d
'Gervase Phinn's memoirs have made him a hero in school staff-rooms' Daily Telegraph
______ What's your name? I asked the child.
'Tequila, ' she replied. I'm named after a drink.'
'Tequila Sunrise, ' I murmured.
'No, ' pouted the child. 'Tequila Braithwaite.'
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. 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 returns home to his lovely wife, Christine, who is expecting their first baby. Up and Down in the Dales is charming montage of Gervase Phinn's experiences will keep you amused and will win a place in your heart. Gervase Phinn has an extraordinary talent to entertain, and the latest instalment to the Dale Series is heart-warming, wry and will make you laugh out loud.
Author: Gervase Phinn
ISBN-10: 0141011319
ISBN-13: 9780141011318
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 09/24/2009
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d
By Gervase Phinn
xGervase Phinn is a teacher, freelance lecturer, author, poet, school inspector, educational consultant and visiting professor of education - but none of these is more important than his family. For fourteen years he taught in a range of schools, then acted as General Advisor for Language Development in Rotherham before moving on to North Yorkshire, where he spent ten years as a school inspector - time that has provided so much source material for his books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Fello of St John's College, York. Gervase lives with his family in Doncaster.
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