Believe me, a good education doesn’t guarantee good manners, though it does allow some people to bully with perfect grammar…. Some people wear their good education with grace, others – like Higgins – simply use it as a tool to assume superiority over others.

Also you mention returning to books that you’ve known from a different part of your life. Despite my advancing years (ahem) I’m currently enjoying a re-read of the two Alice books but in their annotated form. And while I am still enjoying it, it’s a different sense of enjoyment – probably a more knowing one (even without the notes); I guess that’s the point, isn’t it, that re-reading a book later in life we have so many more experiences that spark links – and also, sadly, our own imposed “now I’m a grown-up” limits to our former imagination.

Chole

an interesting comment about small changes potentially having a big effect – I guess you’ve heard the term from chaos theory called “the butterfly effect”.