Sara recalls being forced into a canoe and discovers One Direction’s tiny burp
Sara welcomed a group of Year 11 pupils returning from a geography trip, which immediately exposed Beccy’s complete lack of affection for the subject. Beccy liked travelling but not maps, hills or the academic side of geography, while Sara remembered the supposedly enjoyable field trips rather more vividly.
Her own Lake Coniston trip had involved being made to get into a canoe despite hating the thought of capsizing. A slideshow afterwards captured her as a sulking 12-year-old in a green bobble hat, wedged into the boat against her will. Sara felt the humiliation had been significant enough to put her off both canoes and that particular style of hat.
The pair had also watched One Direction’s documentary, twice in Beccy’s case. Rather than offering a careful cultural assessment, they focused on a tiny burp from Niall and treated it as a moment important enough to replay for the audience.
Dear Sara supplied its usual mixture of very small dilemmas and unexpectedly detailed answers. A listener who had measured her hair wanted to know whether anyone else did the same, prompting a live tape-measure session. Sara was delighted to discover her own hair had passed a personal “long hair” threshold, while Beccy’s result was less thrilling.
Another listener asked whether to have egg mayo or tuna mayo for lunch. Sara’s solution was to combine them, declare the result vaguely Niçoise and accept that the meal might bring both intelligence and unfortunate side effects. It was classic cover-show radio, an ordinary afternoon made memorable by a canoe, a tape measure and an overthought sandwich.
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