To start with, "typewriters." My other half told me about two years
ago his young niece (then 11 years old) asked him, "Uncle Carl,
what's a typewriter?"
Perhaps we all could add a few more:-
- ink wells
- putting chalk in the ink wells
- putting the plaits of the girl in front into the ink wells (this
all in Grade 4 in 1957)
- electric erasers (when I was a draughtsman in 1966)
- drawing maps by hand!!!
- being first to collect the bread from the horse-drawn baker's cart
and then hollowing it out and pretending the mice had got to it.
- Dad putting out the milk bottles to let us know we'd been "parking"
long enough!
- Mum boiling up the copper
- begging chips of ice from the "Ice Man".
etc. etc.
David in Ballarat
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