"Mike" wrote in message
...

....I was but a
scholarship kid at a public school and being of a "working class
family"
money did not exactly grow on a tree

Do you think that experience in your formative years might go some way
to
explaining your apparent preoccupation with the British 'class system'?


Not a preoccupation, just a very aware fact that there 'is' a class system
in this country and it is alive and well.


Sorry, I thought the ex-pat had posted the bit about his education, not you,
my mistake.