[ebooktalk] Re: Apologies for my mistake.
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 16:55:01 +0100
You just used to flick them away Linda, although I knew one kid who ate them.
We used to make bangers with the radio times at Benwell, the ones which were
printed on the really high quality Manilla paper. they made a fantastic crack.
And at rowton where we had much bigger rounds, someone invented an adaptation
of golf played by throwing a still rolled radio times as close as possible to
particular trees or other objects. the champ was undoubtedly the great Steve
Binns.
On 5 Jul 2013, at 16:19, Linda Welding wrote:
> Yes, I read 2 really good books in that format with the removable dots: Sword
> at Sunset and the Cruel Sea.
>
> When we were at school, we used to use old radio times to make
> bangers/crackers out of them! Spent hours playing with the things.
>
> But where did the dots go (those of you with a kind of grafiti tendency) once
> you’d picked them off!?
>
> A lovely sunny day here, so going back to the tennis: to watch not play.
>
> Linda
>
>
>
> From: Elaine Harris (Rivendell)
> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 1:28 PM
> To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Apologies for my mistake.
>
> Well, that puts me in my place. Sorry.
>
> If the Plastic Braille was the kind you could scrape the dots off, (the old
> Radio Times format) I recall someone in our form determined to denude an
> entire magazine. Not sure that they succeeded.
>
> I had forgotten there were books in that format, too.
>
> Humbly yours,
>
> Elaine
>
>
>
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