What did you do at school today?

-What did you do at school today, Christopher?  Did anything exciting happen?

- We did papier mache.

- Did you?  What did you make?

- We had to cover a bowl with paper and glue till the glue dried and then take it off and have a paper bowl.  We have to paint it tomorrow.

- Oh, lovely – a paper bowl, how lovely!  Was it fun?

- Mrs White got cross with me.

- Did she, why?

- She told me off because she got gluey paper all over her fingers when she was helping me and she made me pick it off her fingers even though I didn’t put it there she did so I don’t know why she got cross with me.

- Oh dear.  Well, was playtime fun?

- Well…

- Well what?

- Well, a boy’s nose fell on a fist.

- What?

- A boy’s nose fell on a fist in the playground.

- Oh dear, was he all right?

- Well, it did bleed. But he went in to see the Nurse and she stopped it.

- Which boy was it?

- Kevin.

- Kevin?  Your friend, Kevin?

- Yes.  But, …

- But what?

- Well I’m not sure that he is my friend any more.

- Oh dear.  Why not?

- Because of the falling.

- What?

- Because of falling on the fist.

- Oh?  Why would he stop being friends with you, though?

- Don’t know.  He just did.

- What?

- When he came back from the Nurse after dinner he wouldn’t talk to me.

- Why not?

- He said it was my fault.

- Why?  Did you push him or something?

- No!

- What then?

- It was my fist.

- What?

- It was my fist he fell on.

- Do you mean you hit him?

- No!  He fell, but I had my fist up and he … he fell on it.  My fist.  And it did bleed a lot and he was really upset.

- Oh dear.  Well, …. maybe you could take him something tomorrow to make him feel better?

- What?  Medicine?

- No, I mean a little present or something…

- Like what?

- Well, I don’t know.  What do you like when you feel upset?

- I like dinkies.

- Hm?

- I like playing with my dinkies.

- Oh yes!  Well maybe you could take him one of your dinkies to play with.  Just to make friends again.

- I could take him my Mini but he can’t have my James Bond car.

- Yes, all right.  Why don’t you take him your Mini dinky?

- All right.  I’ll take him my Mini… … … to borrow.