Oh, gosh, yes. While having a large number of books on curriculum topics is very helpful to us School Library Service librarians - I still remember with a shudder the first few years of the QCA schemes of work, before publishing had caught up, when dozens of schools were asking for boxes on books on seaside holidays in the past for year 2 - something we had no books on... (Um... That sentence has got out of control, and I need to start again.) While it's useful in one way, it's such a shame that there are no books outside its limits. I have 8 shelves on books on Tudors, all aimed at year 4, all about rich and poor or Henry VIII, but barely half a shelf on the entire Middle Ages. I read lots of history books as a child purely for pleasure, and there doesn't seem to be any such books around now. Well, except for Horrible Histories and similar, I suppose.

I hate using a hand-drier, and actually hardly ever do so, preferring to walk out with my hands dripping, wiping them on my clothes as I do so. Probably horribly unhygienic, but, hey...