When novelist Lulu Taylor’s children started Saturday school, she went, too – and signed up for Ancient Greek lessons
When I moved from London to darkest Dorset, my friends secretly pitied me. ‘Lucky you,’ they’d say wistfully. ‘We’d love to leave too, if only we could...’ They didn’t mean it. They couldn’t conceive of a worthwhile life over two hours away from town. When I told them that my children would be going to school on Saturdays, they pitied them too. Poor enslaved babies! But the children went happily to enjoy things such as circus skills, cartoon drawing and chess. One club caught my eye: Ancient Greek – parents welcome. Keen on languages and eager to embrace everything my new life could offer, I signed up. My teacher was Micky Burton-Brown, Oxford-educated classicist (Pembroke), ex-prep-school head, and only 82. He brought a razor- sharp mind and bags of enthusiasm, as though he hadn’t already taught dozens of generations the same alphabet, sentence construction, breathings, cases and conjugations. He’d been...
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