Things that time forgot.

[Serial_Apologist]

Excellent post!

Another thing that time forgot ... Grace Before/After Meals ?

Who is Grace?

[Alain Maréchal]

Diaries and Calendars in which weeks begin on a Sunday.

[cloughie]

Who is Grace?

You don't know - I find that amazing!

[Serial_Apologist]

You don't know - I find that amazing!

[Jonathan]

I was just considering fountain pens - when I was at school, I had a thing called an Ink Killer which was basically a weak bleach solution in a pen (it was blue). If you made a mistake writing with your fountain pen, you went over it with the ink killer and it disappeared. Once dried, you wrote over the top with a Biro.

[Richard Barrett]

I was just considering fountain pens - when I was at school, I had a thing called an Ink Killer which was basically a weak bleach solution in a pen (it was blue). If you made a mistake writing with your fountain pen, you went over it with the ink killer and it disappeared. Once dried, you wrote over the top with a Biro.

Those still exist, my daughter uses them at school (the killers, not the fountain pens).

[french frank]

Those still exist, my daughter uses them at school (the killers, not the fountain pens).

In my day we just crossed the mistake through and put brackets round it with a cross: The Battle of Hastings was in (1044 X) 1086

[cloughie]

I was just considering fountain pens - when I was at school, I had a thing called an Ink Killer which was basically a weak bleach solution in a pen (it was blue). If you made a mistake writing with your fountain pen, you went over it with the ink killer and it disappeared. Once dried, you wrote over the top with a Biro.

Or there were ink rubbers, which were more abrasive than pencil rubbers and removed the ink and usually put a hole in the page also.

[Pulcinella]

I was just considering fountain pens - when I was at school, I had a thing called an Ink Killer which was basically a weak bleach solution in a pen (it was blue). If you made a mistake writing with your fountain pen, you went over it with the ink killer and it disappeared. Once dried, you wrote over the top with a Biro.

I remember it as 'ink eradicator'; two bottles in a pack. One to bleach and the other perhaps to neutralise after?

[Serial_Apologist]

I remember it as 'ink eradicator'; two bottles in a pack. One to bleach and the other perhaps to neutralise after?

Yes - that's right. I didn't realise it was bleach, being too young to understand about such things: to me it was magic that made what one had written disappear; but now you mention those two little bottles, I remember.

[ahinton]

In my day we just crossed the mistake through and put brackets round it with a cross: The Battle of Hastings was in (1044 X) 1086

Eight and eight is fifteen or eight and eight are fifteen?...

[french frank]

Eight and eight is fifteen or eight and eight are fifteen?...

Yes.

[cloughie]

12.00noon and 12.00midnight.

[teamsaint]

The magic sponge.

[teamsaint]

Cat burglars