Wow, my husband and I were just talking about the Gestetner machine yesterday, how special you felt if the teacher took you out of class and allowed you to crank the handle and how we missed that smell......and we speculated if we really did get high on it. Syncronicity strikes again for a couple of old geezers here, although we got stumped on the princess.

We also missed the peppermint taste of white paste, the slightly salty taste of ink from fountain pens and red pens holders you stuck the nibs in and the smell of new text books. Can't remember why they didn't let us use ballpoints, I'm sure they were around.