In Year 9 I had a CDT* teacher called Mr Eckers who announced to my class of 14 year old girls that “You’ve never truly lived until you’ve drawn a daisy with your compass.” We all exchanged perplexed expressions, quickly used our compasses to, as instructed, draw daisies, and upon completion, sat back and felt a little disappointed that life really didn’t seem that much more exciting. Later on, this became a stupid in joke. Someone feeling down and out? Clearly hasn’t drawn a daisy with a compass! And so it went. We also used to talk about poor Mr Eckers for whom the most exciting thing in the world was drawing a flower with a mathematical device when, obviously, the most exciting thing in the world would actually be snogging Robbie Williams! Or being a Spice Girl. Man, to be 14 again…
I think I’ve now, ten years later, come up with my own version of Mr Eckers compass-sketched daisy; You seriously have not lived until you have listened to Harry and the Potters WHILE reading one of the Harry Potter books. This morning, I listened to The Human Hosepipe while reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and finally got the sort of sensation that dear Mr Eckers must have after drawing a really awesome daisy, the old hippy.
* Craft, Design, and Technology - where all I truly learnt for two years was how not to use a glue gun.
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