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Are you Proficient? Do YOU have a badge? Hmmm?
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Posted 13 years ago #
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I have a certificate in my mums somewhere maybe I should laminate it.
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I had a 'tificate and a little enamel pin badge. no idea where they are now ...
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My mum will have my certificate in her loft. I'm going back up in three weeks time - going to have to try and dig that out.
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Assuming this is cycling proficiency which I did at primary school (and sneaked into a shot on Scotland Today when they came to film some footage of us cycling loops around the netball court). I don't know where the certificate went or even remember if we got one.
I did find my 50 and 100m Scottish Swimmer badges recently as they had never been sewn onto my trunks. I also made it to gold-level Lego Club member and had a badge to prove it (think that means you were in it for 5 years or more. Until then you were regular multi-coloured Lego Club member)
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Nope I don't have the trunks with sewn on 1, 2, 3 & 4 star swiming awards either. Does this mean I'm no longer allowed to cycle on the roads, or swim either?
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The majority of certificates for things issued at my primary school involved things being photocopied onto thin green card, though at least we had advanced beyond indigo-inked mimeography by the mid-eighties. I'll ask my mum if she's encountered it in her recent journeys through the boxes of school-things in the cupboard, though she may have been too busy looking for bairn-compatible playthings that she can offload on me.
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I still have the long serving puffin club membership badge... not 100% sure where it is though. Might have to go look
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The majority of certificates for things issued at my primary school involved things being photocopied onto thin green card, though at least we had advanced beyond indigo-inked mimeography by the mid-eighties.
That's not a photocopier, that's a 'bander': kind of simple photo lithography with paper plates as I recall... The ink had a pleasant sweet pear drops smell.
Don't tell me none of you were in the Tufty Club?
(Not my badge, I hasten to add)
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Not only was I in the Tufty Club, but it's my standard line to pedestrians who step out in front without looking, either "You weren't in the Tufty Club then?" or "Tufty would be spinning in his grave".
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"That's not a photocopier, that's a 'bander': kind of simple photo lithography with paper plates as I recall... The ink had a pleasant sweet pear drops smell."
No, the photocopier was definitely a photocopier - it had buttons and everything, a big "XEROX" logo on the side and could also photocopy onto paper, but the 'thin green card' was just an extra layer of security as thin green card was only available to official bodies and was kept in a locked cupboard, whereas white A4 paper could be easily obtained from most classrooms. The bluey-purple ink hand-cranked drum-based machine things which I did not refer to as photocopiers were gradually falling out of favour when I was small but were still in use by the music
departmentteacher when I was at secondary school for creating exam papers and illegible pages of notes about history, which the music teacher also taught.Posted 13 years ago # -
"Tufty would be spinning in his grave"
Tufty is dead?!
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And Anth killed him!!!!
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I'm merely running on an assumption that Tufty is not immortal, and being a squirrel his limited lifespan will mean he has already shuffled off this mortal coil. Unless he's like the tooth fairy and omnipotent and everything.
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Hmmm. Just thinking. Roads. Safety. #Tufty. #Pop28. When me and my sister were small my gran made us a pair of squirrel costumes. If anyone is under four feet tall and would like to dress as a squirrel to cycle slowly through the city I'll see if my parents can find them and fish them out.
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I thought it was Willy Weasel that was in an early grave?
My Mum was still using carbon paper to create copies of hand-written worksheets for primary classes into the early 1990s. She used to bring home spent carbon paper for my sister and I to play with.
My dad also used to bring home those endless stacks of wierd A3-ish green and white lined daisy wheel printer paper for us to draw on the back of, until he found out there was some sort of child-unfriendly fungicide in it.
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And Anth killed him!!!!
He really should have know better than to run between the spokes of the kaffe!
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On the plus side, Anth now has a pretty cool roadkill spokesquirrel. Might start to hum a bit come the summer, but it'll have dried out nicely by autumn.
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@wingpig - don't suppose you've got a panda costume up your sleeve as well do you?
I have to ask though - red or grey squirrel?
Posted 13 years ago # -
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l2736&_nkw=cycle+proficiency
we can all get one ;)
Posted 13 years ago # -
I entirely call dibs on any panda costume, which I will wear on my fixie with one leg rolled up, telling every I meet that mating has become too mainstream.
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Tuffty may be dead, he died peacefully but his great, graet grandchildren are still resident in the big hoose gardens where we first saw tuffty ! And dont anyone tell you different !
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or panda copier ! I remember the smell.,it was vaguely orangy !O grade geography, pens wouldnt write on the copied sheets.
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Yeah, Banda, that's it. The teachers always used to pronounce it 'bander' though.
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I had to make hundreds of copies on those machines when I was doing teacher training. First thing every morning in the school.
I never sat a cycling proficiency because I didn't have a bike. But I did go to the Tufty Club and have the badge (sadly not the original). Thanks for the memories.
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I have LOTS of badges. All my and my two sisters' swimming and Brownie and Guide and anything else we might have got a badge for badges got sewn onto a big rug/blanket together with badges from all the places we went to on holiday. And then somehow the blanket became mine :o) It is a rather cool thing but doesn't get used much these days. My latest badge is from the British Long Distance Swimmers' Association...
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