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<DIV>“It’s all in your mind”, said the young woman on a pony, as I waited at the
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<DIV>I’ve been watching bits here and there of “The Durrells” on TV. I’ve
never read any of the books. I note that the little boy, Gerald (later to
become the naturalist), has an English tutor on Corfu in the 1930s.
Presumably, the mother pays him. (According to the ODNB, he had “a bevy of
eccentric private tutors”.) Yet the family hasn’t a bean (“Actually, beans
are what we *do* have . . .”). Why isn’t he sent to the local Greek
school? Because he’s to be brought up as an English gentleman, that’s
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<DIV>Similarly, you may ask yourselves why Mrs Flanders in JR hasn’t sent her
sons to the local primary school, even a “higher grade” one. The “<SPAN
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