On 03/12/2014 14:10, Eskimo Will wrote:

"Stephen Davenport" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 11:33:56 AM UTC,
wrote:

Gosh eraser and 4B pencil - those were the days, I went
through erasers incredibly quickly iirc :-)

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I seem to recall a frequent shortage of 4B pencils as well, because
Ray Nurney (?) used to hoard them.
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Ah yes Ray Nurney, he was a dour sort of chappie, nice though.
Purple crayons were always in short supply. My favourite was blue as
that was what you used to colour sleet/snow obs as. :-)
Haven't drawn up a chart for 20 years.
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Will
If you haven't drawn up (using gridding) charts at 10, 5,2 and 1mb you
haven't lived. I was in the Stratospheric section in Met O 20 when I
first went to Bracknell, and that was part of my job...

And when I started, you had one biro issued and had to hand that one in
when it ran out before getting a replacement. Hard to use a biro when
it's got a padlock and chain on it!