Later, the rubble will be carefully sorted for recycling. “It feels weird at first because you know everyone’s watching you, but once you get into it, it’s great,” she enthuses as Whiddett sweeps up the remnants. Minutes later, she is hurling plates at the wall and pulverising a toaster as everyone else watches on camera in the waiting room.
Seventeen-year-old Annabel, who recently did her A-level mocks, admits being “a bit nervous” as they’re ushered off to don protective boiler suits, boots and masks. “Block his number and smash up a printer instead,” as TikToker urges her almost 800,000 followers. But they all know the episode of the Netflix series Sex Education where a bunch of teenage girls cathartically smash cars in a scrapyard, and they’ve all seen rage room videos on TikTok, where they’re often pitched as the antidote to relationship angst. The girls, fresh from trawling Norwich’s vintage clothes shops, explain that they’ve never done anything like this before.
Maddie’s parents have driven her up from Suffolk for a belated 18th birthday celebration with friends Annabel and Kitty. They get a lot of primary school teachers, she says, but this afternoon’s booking is for three impeccably mannered teenagers. But they absolutely got stuck in,” says Whiddett, a cheerful 40-year-old who reckons the most satisfying smashables are breadmakers (“They last for ages”).
Helen Stone was an American children’s book illustrator and the recipient of two Caldecott medals.“We had a group of little old ladies come in and I did wonder if they knew what they’d booked.
She died in 2002 at the age of eighty-seven. Her bestselling children’s book Little Witch remained in print for more than forty years and inspired hundreds of children to write to the author, telling her how much they enjoyed the story. Later she was a children’s librarian in Massachusetts. Anna Elizabeth Bennett worked at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum and the Brooklyn Public Library in the 1940s and ’50s.
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