“It makes me sound like a prune!” she giggles.
“It comes with the territory,” I drone.
I’m trying to help her.
“Not sure if Oxbridge feels right for me,” she wonders. Nor am I. Manchester feels a better bet. But I must not display any of what the Gove calls “the soft bigotry of low expectation”. We must all aspire to Oxbridge. I had to. My grammar school sent me there yonks ago. It was all a bit of an Alan Bennett class-ridden nightmare.
Still, those days are probably gone.
“And it makes me sound like a nob!” she sighs.
“It just doesn’t sound like me!”
We must work on this.
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