I remember when in school we could finally choose classes, the asst. principle
said he had signed me up for secretarial courses, and I was Indignant that I
would never do that! He insisted they were good basic skills to fall back on,
and that one time listening to him, was a good decision.
First,
In message <01cadc10$2ab7b370$80271a...@com>, Helen Bell
writes
Thank you Jane, you just replugged the hole with the name in my memory - the
Roneo :-)
Only now with Jean mentioning Banda, I'm wondering whether the Roneo at
the hospital was another type of stencil machine - whichever, it'
I loved your sharing, Agnes! Hard, but wonderful, and comparable to my
parents stories, but in a different country, some much harder actually
including natural disasters.
One thing I wanted to comment was I remember my mother talking about the
rain water, and having the luxury of rinsing your h
Throughout grades 2 and 3 there was a raging battle between the
parents and the teachers to let us use the fountain pens (the kind
where the ink supply was sucked from the inkwell into a rubber bulb;
no cartridges).
I seem to recall that in about 1958 when the Bic Biro made it's first
appeara
From: lacenl...@msn.com
To: lace-chat@arachne.com
Subject: FW: [lace-chat] Re: snapshot of my life.
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:20:53 +
Well I am a baby boomer from 55 so, but I love antics, I do believe I was
born in the wrong era. I would love to be wearing long dresses with bustles
Well I am a baby boomer from 55 so, but I love antics, I do believe I was
born in the wrong era. I would love to be wearing long dresses with bustles.
Lynn W.
You baby, you :) I learnt to write with a "dip" pen -- a steel nib inserted
into a wooden pen handle (and count your blessings that yo
On Apr 13, 2010, at 4:31 PM, Helen Bell wrote:
> I learnt my
> penmanship with a fountain pen (cartridge sort by then) in primary school,
You baby, you :) I learnt to write with a "dip" pen -- a steel nib inserted
into a wooden pen handle (and count your blessings that you don't have to trim
a
