Travellers Checklist
Submitted by TempsPerdu on Fri, 2009-03-27 21:05.
Back in the mid 1980's Filofax produced a lot more pages for their personal organisers than they do now.
Attached is a recreation of their Travellers Checklist in A4 Landscape format, but folded it should fit A5 and possibly scale to other sizes as well.
It might be best to customise it to your needs and may be update it in a few areas as well.
Steve
| Attachment | Size |
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| Travellers Checklist.pdf | 72.94 KB |
| Travellers Checklist.doc | 145 KB |
| Travellers Checklist.odt | 27.3 KB |
Wow.
Hi.
You have the most amazing list there. My eyebrows are going up and my jaw is going down reading it.
My faves:
Under actions: Cancel milk
Under Baby:
Teats (I guess you put those on the bottles?)
Bucket/spade (I hope it's to play with!)
Dummy (this one just escapes me totally!)
Under Other:
Spare Fuses (for what..?)
Of course, it being for a UK audience, it means my American self is boggled by the difference in terminology (hair lacquer? Really?), but there really is an amazing variety of stuff on that list.
shris
"Dummy"=Pacifier
The long name, which my Gran still uses, is "Dummy Tit".
Yes we speak the same
Yes we speak the same language apparently!! When I was typing it up, I thought that some of these things won't mean much to some people, not just people outside of UK. Quite a few things on the list are not in common use these days.
Steve
Milk
Hi.
I understood most everything except the Dummy, so I was doing pretty good--I even understand what a torch is. :)
Anyway, does anyone still get home-delivery of milk? In this country it's long gone--like 40 years gone, maybe more.
shris
i doubt there is home
i doubt there is home delivery of milk these days. i think those Filo pages were from a bygone era. Inform the "subordinates"...fantastic!!
When i was very young my Uncle used to work on the milk delivery trucks when he was a teenager...along side...Midge Ure of Ultravox!! OK, this was years before Midge got into Ultravox, you know what I mean? Once the sideburns and Vienna hit big, I think he quit the deliveries :o)
(ok, tangents...Moi?
Midge
was actually Mij
Which is Jim backwards
His real name was Jim Ure)
Oh yes there ...
I was rudely awoken this morning by the milkman delivering four pint bottles of fresh milk to my front door. Then after falling asleep I was rudely awoken a second time by a competitor dairy company's delivery man driving the other way down my road.
Illegal???
Isn't he running afoul of EU regulations? I mean.... pints? Pints? ;-)
-Jon
Nah the EU recently and
Nah the EU recently and finally saw sense and determined that the UK can use either units of measure. Makes a mockery of English Trading Standards officiers prosecuting retailers who were only using Imperial measures.
Aha!
Well, that must explain today's Oxford-Cambridge race! They were showing the rower's height in feet-inches, and weight in stone, pounds and ounces. That was so confusing to me! I wondered if it was just because of long-standing tradition, or what was going on.... :-)
(And I was rooting for Cambridge--they had a Polish team member) ;-)
-Jon
And...
the speed of the winning team was posted in furlongs per fortnight !
Does anyone else recall that particular unit from US high school physics ?
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"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." (Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Waterson)
High school was...
...so long ago, our carboys were calibrated in hogsheads!!
I must admit, though, that moving on to college, the preferred volume units were pints and jiggers... ;-)
Torch :o)
Torch! LOL. I still blurt that out when my composure is failing me:
Me - "Get me a torch, quick!"
My kids - "A what?"
Me- "a Tor..a...a bloody flashlight!"
My kids - "Aha, OK!"
That torch needs cleaning...
Quick ! Hand me a cotton wool bud !
Us Yanks call them Q-Tips !
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"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." (Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Waterson)
Milk 2
Down here in Australia home delivey of milk is just dying out now.
Our milkman is one of the few milk delivers in our area who is still in business. He delivers milk three times a week... and eggs, bread, fruit juice, and other dairy items (cream, yoghurt, custard, cheese, butter, etc).
As to the list, I recognised the names of everything as we use almost all those terms here. The spare fuses make sense if someone is renting a holiday home as often the owner can be far away (in the case of Australia, sometimes the other side of the country).
What was fascinating is how quickly times change and what was missing - no laptop, mobile/cell phone, GPS, iPod, etc.
And just how big was that picnic going to be if the 'traveller' needed that much cleaning equipment? Maybe it's in case of a picnic food fight :)
Chargers
My packing checklist always has a sub heading of
Chargers:
Ipod (kids)
Laptop
Zen MP3 (mine :oP)
Motorola phone (buggery Motorola for not allowing any old USB charger)
Jabra
PSP
Converter (if going back to blighty)
Harrumph :o(
Cambridge for 2010!! - Brits love the underdog (can't get more "under" than -4 out of 5)
Yes Sir! Raised in Glasgow,
Yes Sir! Raised in Glasgow, hence the warm familiarity with some of the terms on the list. Some are regarded as so politically incorrect these days.
Hairpiece?
I really ought to go to bed.
My favs:
Hairpiece
Cricket Equipment
Bottle opener AND corkscrew
Sunbed(s)
clothes line
Insulin
Alcohol
Insect repellant
(immediately followed by)
Insect cream (yeah,, you would pack the repellant, but would you remember to use it!)
Just priceless! Thank you very much for posting this Steve.
Thanks everyone. I've also
Thanks everyone. I've also submitted these files to the Templates area, but they are still waiting approval, not sure how long that takes?
Steve
Found only one
Steve,
Sorry for the delay... I've gone ahead and published this template: http://www.diyplanner.com/node/6485
It's the only one I found with your name. Can you let me know how many more you submitted and I'll try to get those up as well?
Thanks,
/innowen
Travellers Checklist
Thanks for that, that's the only one at the moment but I might publish some others soon.
Regards
Steve
Ah, I remember the Good Old
Ah, I remember the Good Old Days of Filofax - I still have some blank Weekly Meal Planner pages (somewhat yellow with age now!), as well as Recipe pages. I shall have to download the Traveller's Checklist just for nostalgia purposes :)