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Make excellent and cheap bookmarks 8)
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I prefer to use old travelcards.
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I'd spend more time looking at the map and planning routes than reading!
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tractakid wrote:I'd spend more time looking at the map and planning routes than reading!
Exactly what I do it's 2 reads for the price of 1 :)
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I've been using tube maps as bookmarks for years and years.
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I bet they'd also make very good wallpaper.
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They wouldn't - they're too shiny, so the paste wouldn't absorb into them as well as with conventional wallpaper.
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I have a February 2006 one blown up onto A1 which works very well as a wallpaper, although it's more like a poster.
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Wallpaper needs to be porous, so it can absorb the paste. If you were to put wallpaper paster onto a glossy poster and stick it to the wall, it would take ages to dry, and would eventually start peeling.

Wallpaper advice there.
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http://www.muralswallpaper.co.uk/vintag ... -map-mural
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£23.50 per square metre?!
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Found something similar here.
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The Raven wrote:Found something similar here.
Ooh - a bit out of date - it's got ELL on, and no T5.
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RobbieM wrote:
The Raven wrote:Found something similar here.
Ooh - a bit out of date - it's got ELL on, and no T5.
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You just did, oh Punmeister... :) I'll forgive you.
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