Just taken my nephew

[brenda]

back to uni , he had been on a placement.The car was loaded to the top with electronic and technological stuff. It is nearly 45years since I was a student , however did we manage with pen and paper and an old Royal typewriter to do our thesis out on.?

[bibblebub]

Pen and paper? You were lucky, quill and parchment in my day.

[Chaffinch]

LOL Brenda, my daughter has just arrived home from Uni to do her placement.............
I think could actually camp in her suitcase, no joking, I've never seen one so big!

[brenda]

bibble -- one step up from slate and chalk then. Are you a bit posh ?

[brenda]

Chaffinch -- made me smile that -- I was lugging all this stuff into his room , where was he , gone to find his friends in the student bar !!!!!!

[Prudie]

This made me laugh as I had to take and fetch my daughter and her stuff at the start and end of every uni term . In my day I was plonked on a train with my bags, had to then get 2 tubes across London and then another train right from the word go!

[brenda]

Prudie -- those were the days eh? But I bet you we had loads more fun than they do today.

[boxtops]

I had to rewrite some Uni work the other day - it was fabulous revisiting it, I could find all my references on-line, no more trogging about in the library with a huge book-list!

[ttfn]

You were posh, brenda. I had an Imperial 66 which required the use of a 7lb lump hammer to move the keys far enough to cause their imprint on the paper. 'Twas like a fairground stall.

[brenda]

LOL, remember those as well ttfn

[boxtops]

Ttfn, did you ever hit the return handle so hard that the carriage shot off the machine and flew across the room? I know I did!

[ttfn]

Lethal weapon - let alone the little disc rubber tied to the carriage on a piece of knicker elastic - gosh that hurt if it caught you in the face.

[brenda]

You guys with the typewriters have made me laugh -- had forgotten just how infuriating those machines were
.Off to have a G and T, to calm down.

[tamborine]

own typewriter = luxury ! We had to borrow & beg

[boxtops]

Did you have one of those plastic shields with little shaped holes, that you could rub out through, without deleting the rest of the work? and I had a blue curly thing that looked like false teeth, that you put between each copy on the roller when you were rubbing out, to save the carbon paper smearing?

[brenda]

Boxi -- remember those as well --pathetic things really weren't they.?Do you know I think if we hadn't have spent so much time faffing about trying to do stuff , we would all have had the best qualifications and jobs ever.