Homespun Wisdom: Talks With My Neighbour

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Jayne joins the show and helps make this excruciatingly painful for Daniel and funny for everyone else. First day at school. Getting organised. Stationery fetish. Pleasure from sharpening pencils. Attractions of school vs home life. School friends and lifelong relationships. The “best days of my life”. Newly scrubbed floors and painted walls. Dinner ladies. Going back home to.visit old school friends. Being linked to your siblings reputation. Dr Beckmann carpet cleaner vs Shake ‘N’ Vac. Checking school uniforms for skirt length and heels. Daniel feeling left out and forced to goal hang. Daniel remembers a toilet accident on first day of school. Daniel wears dark glasses at school and is called “Roy” after Roy Orbison. Bullying at school. Daniel bites his oppressor but make up in later life. New exercise books. Covering text books with Tackyback. Greeks often made the butt of jokes. EMOs explained to Daniel. Macaroni cheese in the oven…girls exhibiting food anxiety. Daniel gets bullied by the girls reviving childhood anxieties. Jayne was an art whizz. Table set for lunch. Churros snipping and male trauma. Sewing name tapes. Phone policy. First day advice. Take a photo. Give them bunging op food to avoid a toilet accident….oh and never let Sarah sign off.
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Homespun Wisdom: Talks With My NeighbourBy Sarah Sharman, Daniel Confino