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It is interesting that you mentioned your daughter's choice of school uniform, Willow. I agree, trousers are much more practical, decent and warmer. I think that the thing most people miss in this argument is that we are lucky enough to live in a sophisticated western society in the twenty first century. Not in some third world country that is still struggling to move out of the seventh century.

Yet again the question occurs, what is the point in coming to live here if you wish to maintain the standards and modes of behaviour of a pre-industrial society? I don't understand.