Recently I did an educational tour of the Cathedral with a large group of excited children and when we
got to the part of the tour when I asked them to don the 'Habits' as the Monks who lived there used
to, they became an entirely different group. The following day their lead teacher phoned
me to say thank you for the tour and asked me how I had managed to turn her unruly and
loud gang of children into such an attentive, quiet group.
Well I had to confess to her that it was nothing to do with my great talent as a guide but the affect
the wearing of the 'Habit' has on them. I have used them with other children and it works every time.
Strange but true!
