• Thornburywitch
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    1 month ago

    Photocopiers. Like, we have photocopiers now. They were revolutionary. Don’t start me on what life was like before them.

    Hot water services - no more stuffing the 10 gallon chip heater with briquette fragments and wood chips before doing the washing up or taking a bath or washing hair. And stuffing it again if you ran out of hot water.

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      1 month ago

      just reading this made me flash back to the smell of mimeograph ink.

      mmm. purple.

      • Rusty Raven M
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        1 month ago

        I thought that might have just been me! Purple definitely has a distinct smell.