It was probably 23 years for me - I got the school ones as they came out in Armada, in 1984 onwards, then two from a friend selling them and the others on Ebay around 2003 and as soon as GGB published the last ones.
Any views as to whether Broomhill is day or boarding?
I think my new personal timeline is Easter after RAH, Patrick is still 16, cramming for maths and a couple other O-levels and preparing for A's in humanities at Broomhill, Ginty is now 16 and revising for her own O-levels which makes a great excuse to avoid Patrick, Peter has been convinced by Dartmouth he shows promise in craftmanship and engineering and to follow a non-officer career.
A year later Patrick will be 17 in his Easter hols, in lower 6th at Broomhill, Ginty has some unspectacular O-levels and is in the Lower Sixth uncertain of her future, Peter is 15/16 and swotting like mad to get some excellent O-levels in the hope of a scholarship to Anywhere Other than Dartmouth. Peter and Patrick are thus both underage for drinking in a pub and Forestian time dilation means it's 1985.
Meanwhile back in the past, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonia_Forest helped!) Patrick's accident was a year before Autumn Term, so if Ginty is 2 years ahead of N&L she would have been entering Lower Fourth, and Patrick would have completed Lower Fourth (ie seond year) either at a prep or senior school but not beyond that. Patrick then skips to Lower Fifth (ie repeating one of the years he missed) and is in LV and UV at the same time as Ginty, so he'd have started LV at the London day school when End of Term started. I think it's at least internally consistent...
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Date: 2015-09-27 07:37 pm (UTC)Any views as to whether Broomhill is day or boarding?
I think my new personal timeline is Easter after RAH, Patrick is still 16, cramming for maths and a couple other O-levels and preparing for A's in humanities at Broomhill, Ginty is now 16 and revising for her own O-levels which makes a great excuse to avoid Patrick, Peter has been convinced by Dartmouth he shows promise in craftmanship and engineering and to follow a non-officer career.
A year later Patrick will be 17 in his Easter hols, in lower 6th at Broomhill, Ginty has some unspectacular O-levels and is in the Lower Sixth uncertain of her future, Peter is 15/16 and swotting like mad to get some excellent O-levels in the hope of a scholarship to Anywhere Other than Dartmouth. Peter and Patrick are thus both underage for drinking in a pub and Forestian time dilation means it's 1985.
Meanwhile back in the past, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonia_Forest helped!) Patrick's accident was a year before Autumn Term, so if Ginty is 2 years ahead of N&L she would have been entering Lower Fourth, and Patrick would have completed Lower Fourth (ie seond year) either at a prep or senior school but not beyond that.
Patrick then skips to Lower Fifth (ie repeating one of the years he missed) and is in LV and UV at the same time as Ginty, so he'd have started LV at the London day school when End of Term started. I think it's at least internally consistent...