[Livia]

I went to a state school and managed to get into Cambridge. It was kind of scary and I was a little bit over-awed by it at first. I was surrounded by people from privileged backgrounds who'd been to private school and the first year I felt like the cockney charwoman who was too low down the pecking order to mix with the others. Turned out it was in my head and once I came to terms with the fact that I deserved to be there I chilled out, got on with everyone else and really enjoyed it. It was hard work, so much to remember, I worked really hard the first year and hardly went out at all. I mellowed though...