How did Mrs Marlow do it?

[forester48.livejournal.com]

Hurray! I think I may have found my way in.

Sometimes I exercise my mind in trying to work out how Mrs Marlow managed to produce so many children in such a small space of time. In AT the twins are 12 and Karen, at the most, 18 so not including Giles that makes 7 children in 6 years. One child or twins for each consecutive school year. Throw into this the fact that Ginty's birthday is in January, and that if the classes at Kingscote from Third Form to Upper Sixth equate to Years 7 to 13 then to fit them all in Nicola and Lawrie must be September born 12 year olds in AT. And it all starts to become head spinningly impossible. Only one gap between Rowan in the Upper Fifth and Karen in the Upper Sixth to play with. Thank goodness the poor woman had a bit more of a gap between Giles and Karen - perhaps.

Have I missed any other birthdays to help in my self imposed puzzle? Worse than any Sudoku. I only remember Ginty's being mentioned - twice in fact.

Comments

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

The other possible alternative is that the Second also spanned more than one year. I went to a private prep school when I was little and the form system was all over the place compared to the state sector: most people spent two years in Form 3 (which was ages 10-11, ie just before you went to senior school).

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Either that or say that AF messed up with the ages :)

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

yeah, or say that!