Archive quality photo albums - Glasgow or Edinburgh?

[Rab]

Hopefully the DVDs will last long enough till the next storage format comes along. Maybe it's because I've worked with computers so long that I prefer this method- or maybe it's just because it's cheap.

[MargaretS]

I solved this problem by getting into scrapbooking as all the materials for that are acid and lignin free, and I can write commentaries beside the photos.

[LesleyB]

Hi all
Thanks for all your replies. I've been rummaging about and you are right Margaret in that scrapbooking supplies may just be the way to go. I did see an album in Glasgow yesterday which looked promising, but it only contained 10 pages (20 sides - nowhere near enough!!) and although it was expandable the shop did not have extra pages in stock. The web site belonging to the company does not seem to be up & running yet either.... but I am making progress!!

Best wishes
Lesley

[mallog]

Margaret

Thanks for the idea of scrapbooking. I have been toying with that notion for a while and it sounds a good way of combining two interests. I know a shop that sells lots of stuff for that and they have loads of fancy acid free paper too. I went yesterday and got an acid-free album. Although it is the size you mentioned Lesley you can add pages and extension posts etc to it.

I don't feel I am as gifted as Joette to write a journal but I thought it would be nice to have a scrapbook with a commentary. Thinking of what might go in it, I was going over in my mind changes in lifestyle since I was a child. We have spoken on here about laundry day and the like and it came into my mind about coal fires. Does anyone remember the elaborate origami you used to do to make paper sticks ??

Mallog

[laineywoo]

Hi Mallog
That made me smile! We only got rid of a coal fire about 5 years ago....and yes we still made the sticks to help it go! [Have to admit we did use firelighters along with it!]
Lainey

[emanday]

Does anyone remember the elaborate origami you used to do to make paper sticks ??

Aah! The memories you've awoken, Mallog My grandmother used to twist a single full sheet of newspaper (broadsheet), fold that, twist it again then tie a knot in it

Her coal fire ALWAYS lit first time

However, my grandfather used to carefully fold the same size of sheet lengthways until it was quite narrow, then he'd fold it at a 90 degree angle in the centre and keep folding each length over the other to form a "chain". As kids we used to do the same things with flattened straws.

He claimed his fires also always lit, but they did it faster

[LesleyB]

Hi all
I still have two open fires and make spills regularly in the winter months. I would have to admit they are not as neat and small as I remember them being made as a child - but they work fine!

Best wishes
Lesley

[Russell]

Oh Memories!!!

We used to fold the news-sheet diagonally, then fold and refold so that you finished in the middle. The trick then was to take one end and wrap it round your hand in a coil then tuck the remaining end round the coil.
It worked even if you had no kindling as long as the cinders from the night before were quite big. It took 7 or 8 twists of paper to get the coals going.
What I remember was the way the newsprint came off on your hands as you were folding the paper.

Professionally I used to call this reminisence therapy. Perhaps now I have retired I'm getting a taste of my own medicine

Russell

[mallog]

However, my grandfather used to carefully fold the same size of sheet lengthways until it was quite narrow, then he'd fold it at a 90 degree angle in the centre and keep folding each length over the other to form a "chain". As kids we used to do the same things with flattened straws.

He claimed his fires also always lit, but they did it faster

Exactly !! My father was probably about the same generation as your grandfather and I got it from him. A work of art !

mallog

[derekfrom france]

being economic (this is the modern way of saying saving the baw bees)
i lit my bbq last week with these origami sticks it worked great and the beer + rose wine etc etc helped even better yes here in n france we can still have barbies.it will be even better when all the ENGLISH tourists take the boat home and we can sit at my local and watch the rugby with the owner an irish girl in peace
SANTE derek from france