A Strange Thing Happened Today
A very strange thing happened today. as you know my daughter Katie is due to have her baby any day now and we believe that it will be a little girl. I had seen a lovely miniature doll on E Bay, big enough to put into a mini-pram that I planned to make for her for the baby`s arrival. I bid for the doll and won and paid for it and when it arrived, there were two dolls included with a hand-written note which said that because I did such good work with children the lady had sent the doll as a gift. Not only was I touched, as I always am by spontaneous kindness, but I was puzzled as to how she knew what I did for a living. Of course I e mailed her to find out. She said that my name had sounded familiar to her so she had googled it. Fair enough, mystery solved but then I decided that I`d better google myself and see what was up there and I found a whole host of articles about our students that I did not know were there SO thank you Rosie from Edinburgh on 2 counts!!
It was fascinating. I found that there was another Trudy Hindmarsh, working in Southwark council, who is a fan of Mick Hucknall and I found my son`s comments that I had mentioned to the editor of the Northern Echo, made when my son was in Reception Class. Pete Barron had included them in his column as a “things kids say” item. Here is the clip:-
TRUDY Hindmarsh, of the Stagecoach school for performing arts, emailed with memories of son Jonathan when he was in reception class.
“Mam, did you know that Jesus died on Happy Friday?” he announced.
“But you don`t have to worry because he rose from the deck on Sunday.”
On another occasion, he came out to tell his mam that they’d had a great story in assembly about three leopards - and they had bells and were shouting “Unclean! Unclean!”
I`ll be adding any of these discovered articles and links to the web site when I get a chance to look through them properly and add the links to this post
Below you can follow the links I have discovered so far :-
The first article is the final outcome of a visit I made to Radio Tees, last year, to be interviewed by some school girls who believed in their friend`s talent enough to want to get her some advice.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tees/content/articles/2008/03/13/school_reports_showbusiness_two_feature.shtml
The second is an article that I have never read about Jamie Bell that appeared in The Sunday Mirror
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20010225/ai_n14523171/
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