This week pupils across England and Wales will return to school. It is an exciting time, full of promise and opportunity. This is certainly the case for our family, which has moved up to Stonyhurst from London over the summer. I have taken up my new role as director of strategy. My wife, Victoria, soon starts at her new practice as a country GP and our two young boys are ready to start school together for the first time.
Henry, 5, could not be more excited. He has quizzed the headmasters of both the big and the prep school and they have not been found wanting. We have explored much of Stonyhurst’s 1,000 acres. The territorial waterfowl that patrol the school’s famous long drive have been dubbed “the ducks of war” by the boys. George, 3, has had years of waving goodbye to his brother at the gate. Now he wants in.
