Well, despite the references to TV etc, they're still essentially a pre pop culture generation, so they are steeped in literary and Biblical references - and the practices and rituals of Anglicanism at home and school, which don't depend on belief - and are accustomed to their forms of non-sporting amusement being primarily verbal (theatre, reading). Also, English literature seems to be taught seriously at Kingscote.

And the hunting and Christmas parties are new to the Marlows, too, in their early days living at Trennels.