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Original Title:	Up and Down in the Dales
ISBN:	0141011319 (ISBN13: 9780141011318)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Dales
Series:	#4

Up and Down in the Dales (The Dales Series #4)

Gervase Phinn

Paperback | Pages: 341 pages

Rating: 4.14 | 672 Users | 43 Reviews

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Title	:	Up and Down in the Dales (The Dales Series #4)
Author	:	Gervase Phinn
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 341 pages
Published	:	September 24th 2009 by Penguin (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Biography. Humor. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir

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Up and Down in the Dales is the fourth volume in Gervase Phinn's bestselling Dales Series

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 Inspector for English in the Yorkshire Dales, Gervase Phinn still relishes visiting the schools - whether an inner-city comprehensive fraught with difficulties or a small Dales Primary school where the main danger is one of closure. With endless good humour, he copes with the little surprises that occur round every corner.

Some things never change: Mrs Savage roars, Connie rants, and Gervase's colleague in the office play verbal ping-pong. But all this can be put behind him each day when he returns home to his lovely wife, Christine, who is expecting their first baby.

Up and Down in the Dales is charming montage of Gervase Phinn's experiences will keep you amused and will win a place in your heart.


'Gervase Phinn's memoirs have made him a hero in school staff-rooms' Daily Telegraph


Gervase Phinn is an author and educator from Rotherham who, after teaching for fourteen years in a variety of schools, moved to North Yorkshire to be a school inspector. He has written autobiographies, novels, plays, collections of poetry and stories, as well as a number of books about education. He holds five fellowships, honorary doctorates from Hull, Leicester and Sheffield Hallam universities, and is a patron of a number of children's charities and organizations. He is married with four adult children. His books include The Other Side of the Dale, Over Hill and Dale, Head Over Heels in the Dales,The Heart of the Dales, Up and Down in the Dales and Trouble at the Little Village School.

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Ratings: 4.14 From 672 Users | 43 Reviews

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This delightful book is the first that I have read by Gervase Phinn but I can guarantee that it won't be the last. Mr. Phinn is a school inspector in the Yorkshire dales and the book is a chronicle of his adventures in daily life. Reminds me very much of James Herriot's veterinary chronicles in his All Creatures Great and Small series. A very pleasant read.

Phinn has been compared to James Herriot, and these books are his stories of being appointed as a Schools Inspector in the Yorkshire Dales. Many chuckles about the funny things the children say or do, and likewise about life in the slower-paced world of Yorkshire.

For some reason, I found this book in the Dales series a little tougher-going than the previous three. It was still light-hearted, but seemed a lot more wrapped up in Phinn's personal life rather than tales of the schools he inspects, which is always the most joyful part of the books.In this book, his wife gets up in arms about a school closure, Sidney Clamp plays a rather amusing joke concerning a Quaker meeting house, and Phinn welcomes his first child into the world.

Really nice book. Varied experiences of a school inspector in Yorkshire is presented in the book. Most of them I assume are anecdotes from the author's own life as the protagonist is author himself. Funny, refreshing and heartwarming.



The amusing memoir of a school inspector in Yorkshire.

Another excellent and entertaining collection of anecdotes.