What's Blocking the Drains?: Austin Macauley

Andrew Perry never intended to be a teacher, let alone a headmaster.

Intent on becoming an orchestral conductor, reality soon compelled a change of tune: he bought a school.

Plunging headlong into boarding prep-school life, it was serendipity - despite all the absurdities. The smell of overcooked cabbage and the long holidays combined to become his enduring passion for eleven years.

A merry blend of humorous memories from the seventies headmaster at the heart of a school.