Sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty...
Lying in my bed after having laboriously unpacked my two crammed suitcases into my uni room, I am missing inter-semester break already. Whilst many adventures took place during the holiday after exams, one particular highlight was seeing Matilda in the West End in London. Each day, the Cambridge Theatre release 16 £5 tickets per performance for 16 to 25 year olds at 10am. Knowing there would be other students queueing for this brilliant deal, we woke up at 6.30am, got the tube into central London and were queueing outside the box office by 8am. The 2 hours before ticket release were spent doing killer sudokus and making multiple coffee runs. The production was fantastic and it got me thinking about growing up. Roald Dahl's children's books played a huge part in my childhood. The BFG, George's Marvellous Medicine and Matilda were my favourites. It struck me that a recurring theme throughout Dahl's stories is the triumph of children over adults. As a child w...