Mechanical pencils, customised exercise books, and plastic wallets.
You spent all summer counting down to the days 'til you could do a big back-to-school stationery shop.
If you were lucky, you got taken to WHSmith and Paperchase so you could weigh up your options.
And you always chose folders that coordinated with your notebooks and pencils.
Matching was important.
You bought a new maths set every year, even though you didn't know what half of the stuff did.
You've never used a set square in your life.
Choosing new pencils was hard, but choosing new pencil toppers was even harder.
You had to pick the ones that made the right statement about you.
