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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Everybody, it's time for Jonesy and Amanda's cutting fall on
the cutting room floor today. When you were at school,
did you like a diorama?

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Oh god, you loved a diorama. I never made one
single diorama my school projects. The most elaborate I ever
got was putting some white rice folded up in glad wrap,
stapled it to a piece of cardboard and said, this
is what they ate in Asia. That's as elaborate as
my projects got.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
I was such a dab hand at dioramas, and it
all started. I remember the first time I made some
the oldie parchment. You just got a piece of paper
around the edges, but I've soaked in milk, and then yeah,
I let it say I'm a professional and get some
cursive riding. When it's driving it a milk, you burn
around the edges and you get like your the only

(00:59):
the only time, because.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
If you just burn around the edges without doing that
sense of burns a house, well.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Then I found that you could put the more you.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Burn it, the less they could read giant tracks of
script that wasn't in there.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Who that's the oldie world is just weather well.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Sir, It's just the old Times, it's just weather, and
they said, no, it's not Jones.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
You made it last week.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
And also it's a project about the future.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
And they also said, you didn't make it last week,
you made it last night.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
So what were your favorite dire arma?

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Oh, okay, the Titanic? What did you depict the Titanic sinking?
But how?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
But tell me how?

Speaker 1 (01:34):
So you get a.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Fruit box, cardboard box on its side, a bit of
cardboard in the middle. That's the divider between the surface
and under.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
The water.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
That you inserted that cardboard.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
You insert the cardboard and you get an iceberg, you know,
all a little bit of tip and then.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
A huge underneath and then made out of what at
a cardboard or whatever you had.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Sometimes I'd use a bit of paper mache there the
chicken wire paper mache, celebate.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
And then I have a ship, you.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Know, a storeboard ship, perhaps like an old model that
I hadn't bothered finish, and I put that in and
that was.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Cut into it with a Stanley knife.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
You do all, yeah, it was just chrish.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Look at the scar. Look at the scar here? Can
you say that on my front? That's from the Stanley knife.
Dealing with making Diane Ramas as a kid.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
So a lot of people died on the Titanic, but
your scar I should.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Be a part of it.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
I should be when James Cameron put together anotherwise documentary,
I should say, well, look at this, forget that, forget
about floating around in the water and drowning.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Look at this, Look at that. So that was my
I'm king of the world. My Titanic was so good.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
One year in fifth class, I presented it and got
an A plus.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Next year in sixth class.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Dug it up, presented it again and got it a minus.
The teacher, because it's a different teacher didn't even know,
said let's how you.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Got your job, and presented.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
It was dog Doggi by Ownes. We saw that.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Fifty times his career. Sinking mate, I made another. I
made some great ones. I made one of the gold mines,
made a gold mine once again.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Cardboard box on my side.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
This time discovered plastra paris. And once you learn how
pasta of paris hardens. So what I got was some foam,
you know, spongy foam. So I made like a like
a square of spongy foam from an old lounge. So
I cut out some tracks in it in the spongy foam.
Then I filled that, I covered that with plaster so

(03:32):
it hardened. And then I painted a round and I
put like a old school miners like army soldiers, put
them in there, pretending they're in.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
The gold mines of Victoria whatever.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
And then I brought it out again, painted and got
some other army men with.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Guns and stuff, and that was your war one. But
I got caught out. The teacher said, oh, you've done.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
And I also asked, was it really an old so
for your mum looked the other way.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
No, it was an old It was an old time.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
I understood how plaster Paris hardened because a friend of.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Mine, you two it with kiss.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
I had a pen friend in I think it was
England or America, I can't even remember. But i'd sent
her with sending each other cassettes, and she sent a
cassette back saying, what sounds like your mum was a
bit cranky. And I had no idea that while I
was chatting to her, I kept the recording going and
I was making some kind of doll arrangement of plaster

(04:25):
of Paris all over at the back steps, and it
had fused onto the Yeah, yeah, and Mum hadn't been happy,
And that's what was recorded and sent to my pen friends.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
So the late Jennifer Keller laughed, yelling at her daughter.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Well, I don't remember mum yelling, but I wouldn't have
been happy. Would you have been happy at pasta Paris
stuck all over your steps?

Speaker 3 (04:41):
No?

Speaker 1 (04:42):
I would not like not at all unless it was
fashioned into a gold field then thrilled War one battlefield.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Why are you talking about the reason I bring this
up is because and I thought that the days of
the diorama was gone.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
The kids didn't make them anymore.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Because my kids at school would do the Easter Easter
they do this Easter was east of Diorama, I think
it was. It was called Easter Diorama.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Let me guess, is that the only homework you ever
helped them win?

Speaker 1 (05:10):
I helped him out.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
I had a Batman and it was but it was
egg Man, so two eggs, you know, don't like Batman
and Robin with a whole backdrop.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
That was pretty good.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
I've got them sitting Did they have to pretend they'd
made it?

Speaker 3 (05:22):
No?

Speaker 1 (05:22):
They you know they did you get any help from anyone.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
And when they switched on the lights, they had all
these lights in the building. And then I had another
one which got a bit of derision and didn't get
My daughter didn't want to go with it, but I said,
this will be good broken egg.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Mountain and what were the eggs doing?

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Well?

Speaker 3 (05:39):
That one was broken and one was looking forlorn you know,
a little cowboy hat and roman. He said, I don't
want to do it. I said this will win, and
it did and it didn't even get put at the
front display of all the exhibitions. That's what it was called,
the exhibition for Easter. Now they do hats because of me. Anyway,

(06:01):
I can't help those people of the Shire weren't really
open to a homosexual cowboys advanced. But the reason I
brought it up is on Instagram. The perfect science project
doesn't ex meaning hold my beer this young kids go
to a diorama. Does your cat's butthole really touch all

(06:23):
the surfaces in.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Your and what if they present it's a fold.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Out one, so it's not there's no models in it.
But nonetheless I do appreciate is it quite thorough what
the kid's done?

Speaker 2 (06:34):
And are they looking at where the cat sits, whether
it's bums, touching.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Things, quite extraordinary, quite extraordinary.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Does end up saying that, yes, it touches every surface
pretty much.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, the cat's buttle is everywhere.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
I would have liked to have seen a replica of
the cat's buttole made.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
From plaster apparent.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
I think you can do it.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
You can use it as a pencil sharp later on,
later on.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
These are the handy things. But kid, I salute you.
I think it's great if I get army soldiers in there.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Another war has passed. The cotton room fall.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Okay, kids, that's it for today. Come back tomorrow from
more of Cholsey and a Man this cutting room for
the cotton moo fall