I kept one or two friends from the Dragon. I quite enjoyed the Dragon, it was relatively free and easy and certainly my public school, Ampleforth in Yorkshire with the monks, was much more rigid. I went to the Dragon School in Oxford, which was perhaps less posh then than now - there were a lot of dons’ children there. The two of us were quite a handful I think, she was always worried about us. It was quite a struggle for her to have children, but she obviously wanted to. Her first child was still born, and I think between me and my brother there was another unsuccessful birth. My mother wasn’t as old as my dad, but she was still quite old when we were born. He did used to play cricket with us and things like that, but I remember him being carried off in ambulances at various times for various things. He wasn’t old, old but he wasn’t in very good health, so he didn’t participate physically. When I was born, my dad was in his mid forties, so I suppose in some ways as children it was a bit constrained. I was born into an academic family, my father was an English Don, so it was quite bookish. I’m Edmund, I’m 48 and I was born near Oxford, well within sight of Oxford.
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