Philip Green Educational - Slide Set S46 - Weather
The cover of the Teachers’ Notes booklet that accompanies this slide set. Scanned as a fore-taste of the goodness to come. This has to be one of the best ever £2 punts on EBay – had no idea it would be THIS fabulous, but there are some absolute corkers in this set.
This shot reminds me of just about every school trip I ever went on in primary school – soaked to the skin yet curiously sweaty courtesy of a suffocating polyester pacamac, bored senseless, and slightly nauseous after eating a standard school issue ‘Tiffin’ artificial chocolate coated wafer biscuit, only to return home with a crappy leather bookmark commemorating some hitherto unknown ‘jewel’ of the National Trust crown and the certain knowledge of having to participate in some class posterpaint mural of the event the next day back at school.
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Uploaded: August 26, 2010
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6 comments
Pete wrote...
Spot on about the school trips. In fact, it rained on every single school day from 1973 to 1987. The 80s in particular were blighted by featureless sheets of light grey cloud (or stratus, as we men of science call it).
Paul wrote...
'Man of science' indeed! Just because you once flicked through a Ladybird book looking at the pretty pictures... : )
Pete wrote...
Oi! I almost bought a book by Magnus Pyke! Today! It was signed!
Too pricey though - 5 quid. We boffins are careful with our money.
Paul wrote...
Good grief - Magnus Pyke's autograph?! Was it on a sheet of paper 6ft by 4ft folded in the front of the book?!!!
Seriously though, a fiver is nought for a quality rarity like that - I'd have had it in a heartbeat provided it wasn't beaten and battered to within an inch of it's life.
Pete wrote...
Ha ha! Funnily enough, it was very small and weedy. He must have been drawing on all his resources, you can see the concentration there.
O.M.G. *Awe*