2/2/2024 0 Comments Contact book covering big wI may not be a perfect mum, but my kids will get perfect books. And the extra time and effort saved from outsourcing the plastic battle.only to have more time to get the rest of those last-minute back-to-school bits and bobs. So, on the weekend before school gets back, Saturday, January 27 and Sunday, January 28, find your happy place at the contacting station where Big W covers your books for you. It’s like they heard my cry in the wilderness – when I fell to my knees and cried "Who? Who? Who can cover books in contact? HELP". Yes! Big W will cover YOUR children’s books with contact. If you shop at Big W, then you can use their free magical contact service. And yes, as it turns out you can judge a book by its cover!īut listen up my contact challenged friends! There is a solution! Big W is providing us with sticky salvation! It’s something I hide with well-packed lunchboxes and an extra-special flourish at the Easter hat parade, but the real tell on my failure to provide a bump-free childhood is right there on the cover of my books. Instead I am the woman on the floor wondering how you can have a high IQ but no actual real hands on skills for anything practical. You’d think by now I’d be Queen of Contact. ![]() On the upside the kids can always tell what subject their book is for by just running their hands over the cover, kind of like a personalised form of braille. It always looks like a five year old has done it. ![]() Every year I create unique patterns in the front of my kid’s books, where the contact sticks together in long rivulets, bubbles and bumps. ![]() Honestly, I would have more luck contacting the dead. How has the system missed providing me the covert covering knowledge? Just what kind of book covering contact voodoo do I need to get it right?Īfter more than a decade on my hands and knees, scissors and books in hand I still can’t make contact. When in my life was I supposed to learn the secret contact business? They didn’t offer it as an elective when I was at school and I don’t remember it being on subject selection when I went to uni. Try as I might, mastering a roll of adhesive plastic is not part of my skill set. I have often wondered if this is in fact a requirement of the board of studies, the school itself, or if its some sort of test to ascertain just what kind of parenting my kids are actually receiving. My kids go to a school where covering their books in contact is essential.
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