Mini-stories (Day 1) 

 Systems Learning & Leadership, Day 2: Mapping from Chaos to Big Ideas 

 Story of my grandma who may have used it in her kitchen. Grandma lived through three years of natura l disaster. Don't know how my family survived. 

 Alan Sugar's autobiography. Lots of money-making schemes. Having a big stash of these. Making millio ns. 

 I believe it was in a butcher's shop. A very successful butcher's shop. Famous locally. Hundred year s later it was found when the shop was demolished. 

 Not only used to mince meat but also to mince the fingers of naughty servants who had been caught st ealing 

 During WWII there was rationing and there wasn't a lot of beef and nice-smelling mince. There was a lady who lived in London who used this by putting in squirrels and pigeons. 

 Body recovered from canal. Identified as man who went missing last week. Unusual mark on back of nec k. Murder weapon to be identified. 

 Very sad story. Early years practitioner found this in gran's house, set it up in nursery for childr en to play with play doh. Ofsted visit, she is disciplined for failing health and safety. 

 Designer/inventor spent life trying to come up with something useful. Before he saw the fruits of hi s labour he died. 

 Seen quite a lot of things going on. Prop used in the original series of Upstairs Downstairs. Has ju st been bought by somebody who buys props. 

 Possible assessment criteria. Vocabulary. Tension. Characters Engaging. Multi-layered. Divergence an d relevance. 

 Fifty years in future. No meat to eat on planet. People find this buried. Start to explore various u ses. Including mincing trees to take paper. 

 Cook and butler in kitchen. Eyes meet across mincer. Someone seizes moment to put in mouse. 

 Gran has to go out to work because widowed when dad only six months old. Hard existence. Mincer is s ymbolic of her hard life. 

 Even scientific facts get passed on as stories and narratives. For example, apples falling on heads. 

 People who were cast iron specialists trying to find jobs in a world in which people didn't use cas t iron any more. 

 Manufactured in Britain, probably in Sheffield. Family-owned company successful for a hundred years, went downhill after war, finally closed. Lives this affected. 

 This mincer, whose inventor died, the inventor's son is now opening up the factory. Story will be ab out the person who made the very first piece that went into the very first one. 

 Little old lady who lives alone with her cat. Won't oil her mincer because it's the only time the ca t comes down and she is not alone. 

 1960s in Essex, practising coitus interrputs as a contraceptive technique. This was unsuccessful, a child was born. The girl was brought up primarily by her grandmother, and she would watch her mincing. 

 Four people living in a flat of London. Would have massive arguments over washing up and cleaning. W ould each stomp off to individual room and play music from album with this mincer image on the cover - Another Brick in the Wall 

 Story of huge success. Rags to riches by the owner, Mrs Lovatt, Had a mince pie shop, most suecessfu l in London. Partnership with the shop upstairs owned by Sweeney Todd, in Fleet Street. 

 Young people find new home, got it from old lady who was put into care, return it to her, long lasti ng friendship develops