How do you solve a problem like Maria? So asked the nuns of Nonnberg Abbey in The Sound of Music. (Pause, please, in remembrance of Christopher Plummer RIP.) As all Sound of Music fans will know, Maria was ill-suited to the job. Depicted as impulsive, irresponsible, slightly reckless and passionate, she was quite the opposite of William Wordsworth’s “quiet as a nun”. Furthermore, she didn’t have the dedication required to Stick At It. The Mother Abbess, of course, recognising this, sent Maria off to act as the governess to Captain von Trapp. And the rest is history.