Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Donna Timmiss, a Durham schoolteacher who has followed her dream of going into teaching, and who specialises in looking after disabled children and those within social services. Donna was the first in her family to go to university and in this very candid interview Donna talks about how her parents, who had experience of the care system, valued the importance of education and how she ended up at Lampeter. She talks about her experience of getting to Lampeter – with the perils involved – and how she felt very safe there. Donna’s earliest memories involve playing collaboratively with other children and an abundance of green spaces, and how she used to explore the attic of her local Catholic club, and tap dancing. We learn about Donna’s eclectic taste in music, including Keith West’s ‘Excerpt from a Teenage Opera’ and Dollar’s ‘Mirror Mirror’. She tells us how she once saw Bucks Fizz by accident and about the mix tapes that her fiance made for her when she went to university. We fi