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The Last Day of Term…

The headline from the local newspaper almost makes me sound jet set: ‘Egyptologist leaves dig to award prizes’ (and buff ego). In June 2008 I was asked to be the guest of honour at my middle school’s...

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Keep Smiling Elizabeth

I had a lot of orthodontic treatment growing up. My gums are wincing at the very thought of it. The great tooth shuffle of the 1990s began when I was in Year 3 at Littleton. I would be taken out of...

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Videogames Don’t Rot Your Brain

Like most mothers, I imagine, my Mum trotted out the line “videogames rot your brain” on a fairly frequent basis in a futile attempt to get her first born to stop playing on the Megadrive and develop...

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Melting Moments

Nigella Lawson eat your heart out… (actually, she probably would). My early years at primary school involved one or other of the following activities: measuring everything in sight using hand spans and...

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Digital Vision

Whilst waiting for our two-hour session on the Archaeology of Egypt to begin, one Thursday morning in Autumn 2001, one of the more mature students on our course uttered the line all near-skint second...

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Granny’s Garden

I owe my ‘career’ to an educational adventure videogame from the 1980s. I wish I could say that I was motivated by a fervent desire to solve the world energy crisis (was there even a crisis in 1988?)...

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The SAS

The first year of university was one of the greatest disappointments of my life. I was one of the youngest in the year, everyone in my archaeology cohort seemed to have been on gap years in exotic...

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In memory of correspondents/correspondence past

I went up to university in the autumn of 2000 and fell in love by letters sent between Oxford and London, Worcester and Offenham. Whilst we both acquired mobile numbers (differing only in their last...

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The Crystal Maze

  When I was at middle school I was allowed to stay up later on Thursday evenings to watch The Crystal Maze. I loved the theme tune (Zack Lawrence’s “Force Field”), hated the renovation of Industrial...

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Littleton First School Sports Day

I recently found a stash of my ‘Story and Picture’ books from first school – in my Dad’s attic no less. I sat in his bathroom (the only room with enough floorspace) and laughed and cried my way through...

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