12th April, 2009 - Ten Random Thoughts About Primary School #10

I remember getting one of my essays read out to the class. I think it might have been the first time I ever felt proud of something I’d done. We had to write an essay aboiut TV, and everyone else had pointed out that TV was ruining their lives; making them fat; and was liable to turn them into violent young adults.

I remember writing about how much I loved the telly; and how (in the right hands) it was a force for good. I took the view that the telly was a nuclear reactor rather than I hydrogen bomb. Obviously, I didn’t put it that way when I was 10. I am much better at metaphors now, which is why you are reading this blog.