This is the story of a typecase hanging on our wall near Cemetery Junction. The case itself came from Parnells the Printers in Reading. Over the decades it's gathered a collection of ephemera which we'll riff upon, compartment by compartment and see where it takes us.
This week it's "Owzthat", a game I thought must have disappeared in the 40+ years since we used to play it at Barnsley Holgate Grammar School (famous Alumni include Michael Parkinson). We had a virtual version we used to play in the church choir, which involved words we knew would turn up in the sermon and which we allocated scores to, or decisions on whether a batsman was out. Atheism was clearly only a long hop away.
I used to rue the hours wasted in church, but now know that the architecture and art there were the basis for a life in design. And the musical education stays with you for ever.
Next week, Simon Amstell's hair.
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