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Curious Minds unpick Extra Time stories – and share some of their own

By Candida Wingate

Part of Extra Time

17 Oct, 2025

Jo and I spent a lovely afternoon with members of the Curious Minds Legacy group at Saxmundham Library, listening to stories in the Extra Time Football Story Box and sharing some of our own.

The football stories are so varied that everyone found something relatable – from parents doing Littlewood Pools on a Saturday afternoon to considering special football memorabilia and then illustrating their own precious possessions.

Thanks to Jo for leading the activities, Chrissie for hosting the session, and to all the participants for being so enthusiastic about the stories – even though football might not be their sport of choice.

A group of adults sit around a table in a library, with pens and paper in front of them

Some of the Curious Minds Legacy group sketching out their football stories, including cutting Dad's hair whilst he watches the match

A pencil drawing of two people sitting on a sofa watching a football match on television. Football match Liverpool. Yay goal. Tim Dad

Tim and Dad watching Liverpool on TV and celebrating when they score a goal

Patterns of lines and circles in black and shades or purple

Patterns for netball training

A pencil and pink drawing of a butterfly

A delicate pencil drawing of a butterfly full of personal significance

A colourful bird wearing a bobble hat and standing on a ball

This is what happens when you listen to a story about a bird of Paradise and a football match

Pencil drawings of a colourful bird, a television, and people watching a football match

A bird of Paradise, a televised football match and a child applying hair spray to an adult's hair as he watches the game

Liverpool Football Club est 1892. A colourful picture of the Club's emblem, alongside a box of coloured pens

Liverpool Football Club

A drawing of a triangle containing distinct emblems

A personal emblematic drawing

Scribbled notes on a piece of lining paper, covering images of birds and other objects

Feedback included a comment that there's lots for which to be grateful

A pencil drawing of a football match

Spot the ball

1 /10

‘Sometimes you can become a prisoner in your own head. Doing things like this [creative session] really helps take me out of it.’

‘Life is so busy nowadays, we just get lost. This gives me something to look forward to, it helps.’

‘The stories in the box were fascinating and really inspired lots of conversation – sometimes we just need a spark.’

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