Now in his fourth year as an inspector for English in the yorkshire dales, Gervase Phinn still relishes visiting the schools - whether an inner-city comprehensive fraught with difficulties or a small dales primary school...Now in his fourth year as an inspector for English in the yorkshire dales, Gervase Phinn still relishes visiting the schools - whether an inner-city comprehensive fraught with difficulties or a small dales primary school where the main danger is one of closure. With endless good humour, he copes with the little surprises that occur round every corner.