Up and Down in the Dales

Escape 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
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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 I...