My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

I'm using a part of my brain that I haven't used since school, learning the French grammar.

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.

No school from grammar to college and no shopping or selling.

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.