Crumbs, PP, I just can't imagine tracing anything in maths. Geometry is the closest I can think of, but that was all compasses and set squares and protractors.
And thinking back, for those of us of a certain age, doesn't it make you cringe to see people make a fist (literally) of holding a pen to write. Now, if they'd had to write with a dip-in pen, they'd have had to learn to hold a pen "properly". I can't get used to the cramped and (to my eyes) awkward ways I see of pen-wielding youngsters!
We wrote with fountain pens and our P6 teacher entered us in competitions. I won a Parker fountain pen, though I preferred Platignum as they seemed to be finer and easier to hold for little hands. I still have it and used it to write my wedding invitations. If you leaned too heavily the tip splayed on your nib and you were for the high jump!
You must have been to a posh school then PP We weren't allowed fountain pens until we went to Grammar School. And then we weren't allowed to use biros. To this day I find my writing is a real mess with a biro but much more legible with a fountain pen. Real ink!
And yes I also remember the blue bag - you were supposed to dab it on a bee sting, or a wasp sting, because it was acidic and took away the alkalinity of one of their stings (or the other way round!) but I can't remember which sting was which, so I'd have been no good at that bit of first aid!
Gibbs toothpaste - pink solid lump in a round tin that you swished your brush round to get this disgusting tasting gunk onto the brush! Lifebuoy soap! Daz and Omo with their competitive free plastic flowers!
Jubblies! 4d each. Frozen - lasted for ages. And what about Jamboree Bags with pictures of pre-war scout in shorts, no less, on the front? And the contents were rubbish!
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Crumbs, PP, I just can't imagine tracing anything in maths. Geometry is the closest I can think of, but that was all compasses and set squares and protractors.
And thinking back, for those of us of a certain age, doesn't it make you cringe to see people make a fist (literally) of holding a pen to write. Now, if they'd had to write with a dip-in pen, they'd have had to learn to hold a pen "properly". I can't get used to the cramped and (to my eyes) awkward ways I see of pen-wielding youngsters!
We wrote with fountain pens and our P6 teacher entered us in competitions. I won a Parker fountain pen, though I preferred Platignum as they seemed to be finer and easier to hold for little hands. I still have it and used it to write my wedding invitations. If you leaned too heavily the tip splayed on your nib and you were for the high jump!
A sheet of Izal held against a comb gave a "mouth organ", and "yes" it was used for tracing maps. NHS loo roll isn't much better
There wasn't a surface safe!!!
You must have been to a posh school then PP
We weren't allowed fountain pens until we went to Grammar School. And then we weren't allowed to use biros. To this day I find my writing is a real mess with a biro but much more legible with a fountain pen. Real ink!
And yes I also remember the blue bag - you were supposed to dab it on a bee sting, or a wasp sting, because it was acidic and took away the alkalinity of one of their stings (or the other way round!) but I can't remember which sting was which, so I'd have been no good at that bit of first aid!
Gibbs toothpaste - pink solid lump in a round tin that you swished your brush round to get this disgusting tasting gunk onto the brush! Lifebuoy soap! Daz and Omo with their competitive free plastic flowers!
Jubblies! 4d each. Frozen - lasted for ages. And what about Jamboree Bags with pictures of pre-war scout in shorts, no less, on the front? And the contents were rubbish!
But jubblies means ladies chesticles...!
Not at 4d each it doesn't!
This is a refayned chat. There'll be no talk of chesticles hon 'ere!
I still can't get over projectionist!!!!
