Up and Down in the Dales

by Gervase Phinn | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0141011319 Global Overview for this book
Registered by WillCaxton of Chelmsford, Essex United Kingdom on 6/2/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by WillCaxton from Chelmsford, Essex United Kingdom on Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Entertaining read.

Journal Entry 2 by WillCaxton at Chelmsford, Essex United Kingdom on Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Released 14 yrs ago (6/3/2009 UTC) at Chelmsford, Essex United Kingdom

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Taking to tonight's meet.

Journal Entry 3 by candy-is-dandy from Great Bardfield, Essex United Kingdom on Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Picked up at last night's bookcrossing meet at The Riverside Inn, Chelmsford for onward release. No idea where it has been for the last 6 months.

Journal Entry 4 by candy-is-dandy at CoffeeLink, Neptune Marina in Ipswich, Suffolk United Kingdom on Friday, December 11, 2009

Released 14 yrs ago (12/12/2009 UTC) at CoffeeLink, Neptune Marina in Ipswich, Suffolk United Kingdom

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At the Ipswich bookcrossing meet. If not taken by another bookcrosser it will be left on the shelves on the first floor.

Journal Entry 5 by Uncruliar from Leiston, Suffolk United Kingdom on Saturday, February 13, 2010
I picked this up at the Ipswich meet-up this morning.

Journal Entry 6 by Uncruliar from Leiston, Suffolk United Kingdom on Sunday, March 14, 2010
In 15 years of teaching I have identified an unwritten rule that every school staffroom has to have at least one avid Gervase Phinn fan. In that time I have never read one of his books although I have read the occasional article or short story in the Times Educational Supplement.

I found this, the fourth in his Dales series, to be much as I expected. There were plenty of humorous anecdotes about Phinn's encounters with children and teachers in the course of his work as a school inspector. I was slightly surprised though that some of the depictions of teachers, and Phinn's colleagues in the Education Authority, were rather cutting. Not in a nasty way perhaps, but certainly painting some characters in a less than flattering light. No doubt the names of people and schools have been changed but I am sure that Phinn's peers would have had relatively little difficulty in identifying, or at least having shrewd guesses about the identity of, the people depicted; especially in the case of the County staff.

There was also plenty of Phinn's own life story in the book and this was perhaps the most interesting part of the book. Although it was interesting to see that little has changed in the world of education from the time that Phinn was writing about compared to some of my own experiences as a teacher.

While this book has not made me an avid fan, I would certainly read more of Phinn's books should they cross my path.

Journal Entry 7 by Uncruliar at Leiston, Suffolk United Kingdom on Sunday, August 29, 2010

Released 13 yrs ago (8/29/2010 UTC) at Leiston, Suffolk United Kingdom

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Taken along to my local book group and picked up by a fellow member. Hopefully a new recruit to bookcrossing.

Journal Entry 8 by blythspirit at Leiston, Suffolk United Kingdom on Saturday, October 23, 2010
A lovely collection of anecdotal tales written by a former schools inspector in the Yorkshire Dales. Full of gentle humour, I definately wanted to read more about this man's life.

Journal Entry 9 by Uncruliar at Leiston, Suffolk United Kingdom on Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Blythspirit returned this book to me as she didn't feel she would be able to find a suitable release location. So I have released it for her in Ipswich.

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