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Post date: 19-Dec-2017 19:58:53
Martin has been talking to Dr Penhaligon, the tutor who rejected Lucy's Oxford application. It turns out that he was worried that Lucy would find it difficult to get away from all her responsibilities at home (by which he presumably meant, caring for Jonah) if she went to Oxford and it would be better for her to go away to university instead. According to Martin, he as good as admitted that she was one of their best candidates, but he considered that he was saving her from herself. (Don't you hate it when people do unpleasant things for your own good?) What he isn't taking into account is the possibiltiy that Lucy will want to come home at weekends so that she can still help, and that that could be much more disruptive of her degree studies than living at home. And she'd already agreed, on my insistenace, that she would live in college for the first year. Grrr!
Too late to worry about that now. Thankfully, she's taking it all philosophically and concentrating on getting her A levels and preparing for her Liverpool interview next term.