Luxury mate. I had to use a cheap and very thin roll of brown paper to back mine. You were obviously one of the posh kids.Anyone else have to “back their books at school?”
I remember my English book having a cover of Michael Atherton from a magazine on it and science had Juninho.
jealous of the wee folk who can have half decent cricketers like Root and Stokes on theirs
Left over wallpaper.Luxury mate. I had to use a cheap and very thin roll of brown paper to back mine. You were obviously one of the posh kids.
It was like taking the front room to schoolLeft over wallpaper.
Left over wallpaper.
We only got ours when we scraped the room and it had ten years of emulsion on it.It was like taking the front room to school
me too-Left over wallpaper.
We had slates- not booksYep.
Old bits of wallpaper and brown wrapping paper.
We had pencils, not pens.
What's wrong with Athers. Decent in his day. Apart from the fact he played for the wrong county.Anyone else have to “back their books at school?”
I remember my English book having a cover of Michael Atherton from a magazine on it and science had Juninho.
jealous of the wee folk who can have half decent cricketers like Root and Stokes on theirs
That'd be the Gilly then I'd guess ?I remember backing my ChView attachment 16071emistry book with this. Mrs Hamilton was not too flattered by it.
Haha nothing I must have liked him a lot at the time, but obviously Strauss and Cookie came along later who were a big upgrade especially the latterWhat's wrong with Athers. Decent in his day. Apart from the fact he played for the wrong county.
I don’t think I quite got right, I painted mine with Artex.......and it just had to be super fresco for added cushioning protection (and you could trace around the lumpy bits with a decent HB!)
My mother was a devotee of Anaglypta wallpaper. It was murder to back books with and difficult to write the title on if it was heavily textured.Left over wallpaper.