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Gems; each and every one.
Roger French | Homepage | 21.02.20 - 8:07 a.m. | #
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Well, I for one want to read Prunes Revolt. Perhaps you could serialise it for us.
Lew | 21.02.20 - 8:22 a.m. | #
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G-BDPV was only delivered to British Airways in April 1976, so it must have still had that new plane smell.
Henry | 21.02.20 - 8:40 a.m. | #
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G-BDPV “City of Aberdeen” was a Boeing 747-136 delivered in April 1976 so almost brand new when you were a passenger.
It was scrapped in 1999.
Andrew | 21.02.20 - 8:49 a.m. | #
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Oh, snap.
Andrew | 21.02.20 - 8:49 a.m. | #
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38. They played part of Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo on Radio 3 earlier this week. Brought back a few memories of days gone by.
DGD | 21.02.20 - 8:55 a.m. | #
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Ah the ephemera of a 70s childhood, very similar to mine.
For some reason reading this has made me reflective and a little melancholic - all those things that have past and the people that were related to them that have gone
Paul Donohue | 21.02.20 - 8:59 a.m. | #
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Is Prunes Revolt long enough for serialisation? or would it be a one off post? Either way.....
MO | 21.02.20 - 8:59 a.m. | #
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10 - did you locate bus stops by prominent features like shed/bird bath/patio, or types of plant, was there a long non-stop section through the lawn, were there works journeys to the man hole cover?
Still Anon | 21.02.20 - 9:06 a.m. | #
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25. are you Nigel Molesworth, of St Custards?
timbo | 21.02.20 - 9:21 a.m. | #
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Thanks for the reminder of the wonderful aroma from a duplicating machine.
mikeS | 21.02.20 - 9:47 a.m. | #
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50) I can't believe you've not looked at it since 1991!
This is the sort of stuff I'd come across in a house move which would distract me from the more important tasks at hand!
Cornish Cockney | 21.02.20 - 9:53 a.m. | #
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The spelling test one reminded my of my very old school, very strict primary school teacher. What kind of person puts Chrysanthemum on a spelling test for 7 year olds ... and makes you know your times tables forward, backwards and then in random order to get your star.
Putters | 21.02.20 - 10:03 a.m. | #
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I agree with Cornish Cockney about the distraction - anytime you see anything like that you have to go through it and either remember or not.
DG - even in primary school you obviously had visions of the future with that note to record the date .
Cornish Monkey | 21.02.20 - 10:06 a.m. | #
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38 I had to look up Banda machine, and found out that it was what we called a Roneo. Ah...the smell of the still damp sheets!
17 I was also compelled to look up the Letteromic Movement Selector. Was the preserved stylus used to spin it?
Jonalot | 21.02.20 - 10:12 a.m. | #
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(23) good to see that you have Welsh connections
Jerym | 21.02.20 - 10:48 a.m. | #
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has your Dad been clearing out the attic
Caz | 21.02.20 - 11:01 a.m. | #
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Does the Watford "Phase 3 of the Central Area Redevelopment" detail how they were going to swap the direction of the ring road (to make the exits of the new car parks make sense). Or does it pre-date that ?
Andy Norman | 21.02.20 - 11:44 a.m. | #
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23. I have a birthday card for my mother but she died 2 weeks before she was due to get it. Frankly, I don't know what to do with it, or how long I should hang on to it. It's only purpose seems to be to remind me I once had a mother and now I don't. I don't actually need the reminder either.
B | 21.02.20 - 11:53 a.m. | #
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...a question could be: to whom all this (and no doubt very much more) will be passed-on-to?
...we all seem to go thru life collecting/keeping hold of stuff/things. but in reality be all just temporary guardians of items/property.
Grumpy Anon | 21.02.20 - 12:39 p.m. | #
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I'm happy to report that BA still provide a log-book for younger passengers on request, my son has managed over 25,000 miles by his 7 month birthday today.
Tom | 21.02.20 - 12:41 p.m. | #
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15) These sound eminently publishable here, glad to see you finally found your audience
Tom | 21.02.20 - 12:42 p.m. | #
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The joys of the English language.
I am now wondering if "The Prunes Revolt" is about an unwelcome effect that prunes have on people, or whether it is about an uprising by the aforementioned fruit!
scrumpy | 21.02.20 - 12:59 p.m. | #
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I have to say, I'd be very interested in seeing the map of the garden with bus stops (10). That sounds like just the kind of thing I would do when I was primary school age.
X-Plaistow | 21.02.20 - 1:01 p.m. | #
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I had that Cub Handbook. Just brought back some bad memories. I hated cubs.
Jeff | 21.02.20 - 1:23 p.m. | #
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I had that Cub Handbook too.
Mikey C | 21.02.20 - 7:28 p.m. | #
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If I recall correctly, the Banda machine used some sort of chemical ink - you could draw on the originals, and use various colours. The original was then put into the machine, whence the familiar smelling solvent would gradually dissolve the ink as you made copies. The Roneo / Gestetner machine had stencils which were cut (usually on a typewriter from which the ribbon had been removed?), and then had more conventional ink used to make copies. Pre-photocopy days!
Tim W | 21.02.20 - 8:31 p.m. | #
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Yes, either ribbon removed, or some typewriters had a lever which prevented the ribbon from jumping up.
Malcolm | 21.02.20 - 9:17 p.m. | #
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#48 - As an Ontario resident in the time frame you would have collected that litter bag, thank you for keeping my province beautiful. It was mine to discover, and a place to learn, and place to grow... On-tari-tari-tari-oh.
Greg Wesson | Homepage | 21.02.20 - 10:33 p.m. | #
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13 - Cub Scout handbook - still got the same one - happy days
15 - My brother did a magazine called Scrunge and I did one called Mug. The latter had a venerable run from 1973 - 1987 with a special 2000 edition. He gave up when we found Viz did it so much better.
Top marks for anyone who recalls where the word 'scrunge' came from back in that era.
NickW | 22.02.20 - 12:39 a.m. | #
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26 - warms my heart, possibly unduly. Did you not procure these in rolls (as we did in Australia)?
Pair with: 50-sheet packets of unreinforced blue-lined A4 (quarto! or foolscap! or A4!).
I won't get started on the range of ring binders (1979-87) and pros and cons of each...
Totally love and appreciate this entire list, DG.
EskimoPie | 22.02.20 - 12:44 p.m. | #
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49 - in my BOAC servitude, I spent several months assessing Junior Jet Club log books submitted for their air miles certificates.
JJC was just a ruse for kids to persuade Mummy and/or Daddy to fly BOAC and our associated carriers (Qantas, Air Canada etc), not the evil rivals. I often had to send sad pre-printed letters back with the log-books saying not enough qualifying miles had been flown for the award of the next certificate. Yet every other airlines' flight captains had dutifully signed the long-book.
I can't think of a single instant more aggravating and disappointing thing that could come through a letterbox for an impressionable child and/or a parent with the Chairman's phone number.
It must be even harder now to gain qualifying air miles, as carriers' partnerships (code shares etc) are fluid - what was a qualifying flight might no longer be when the log-book is next submitted for the flown miles certificate.
But that's re-engraved a few more memories...
Joel | 22.02.20 - 7:42 p.m. | #
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Things I'd forgotten to remember: Letraset rub-down transfers, and the time I took to decide where to place each element; Hole reinforcements; Blotting paper; and 'Bob-a-job week (as it was pre-decimalisation).
Image the outrage the latter was cause these days: young boys in shorts and uniform being sent alone to knock on stranger's doors offerring miscellalleous services specified by the householder, for payment! Anyone got the number for Social Services..?
Frank F | 23.02.20 - 7:32 a.m. | #
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Banda - ie B and A, a brand name of Block and Anderson. Otherwise known as a spirit duplicator, its output was well known to every schoolchild of the era. In the days when smoking was common, its use of a highly flammable solvent led to some interesting incidents.
Peter CS | 23.02.20 - 10:06 p.m. | #
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