| The management of Gordonstoun
School expressed quiet satisfaction this week with the news that Wrexham school girl,
Suzanne Turley, actually wanted to study there - of her own free will and everything. "It’s
a first for us" a senior spokeduster told the JT. "Normally the new intake are
trucked up overnight from the Home Counties under heavy sedation before they gradually
come to terms with the fact that there's isn't a Harvey Nicks within 400 miles - it's very
traumatic for them."
Ms Turley expressed her admiration for the school's
little known reputation in drama education as her main reason for wishing to study at the
near Elgin institution. |
"Ah, she might have got that a
bit wrong," the school's spokesmilkmonitor conceded, "If she's seen video
footage of our average pupils striding 'round Elgin city centre, patronising the locals in
an indecipherable dialect, she might have thought they were acting. No, that's the way
they are." The school's real strength, apart from organising yomps
around the muddied marshes of Morayshire, lies in conjuring. "We're good at
that" a school source agreed. "To watch our bursar extract an £18K cheque for
fees from some hard of thinking Surrey stockbroker without as much as a whimper is pure
magic." |
