tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post6440346767478646010..comments2024-03-17T22:38:03.242+01:00Comments on zmkc: Endangered Specieszmkchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-83041587105725484772011-01-19T13:25:51.913+01:002011-01-19T13:25:51.913+01:00Some lovely chuckles here.
My election evenings h...Some lovely chuckles here.<br /><br />My election evenings have been described to a tee. Any election will do ...Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09513648613788716017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-2156582326045915572011-01-19T09:10:51.853+01:002011-01-19T09:10:51.853+01:00Another stationery fan here! Let me loose in a boo...Another stationery fan here! Let me loose in a book shop or a stationer's and I'm a happy chappie (or, lassie). We have been clearing out ma-in-law's place (she's 96 and is fully compus but legally blind so has moved into a low are hostel) and I found a handful of rulers - mostly pre-metric. Ah, I sighed, we can't get rid of THOSE. <br /><br />Meanwhile, back at my own ranch I have mugs scattered around the house full of pens of all types, pencils, highlighters, paper scissors and so on. I've discovered that I can justify acquiring more pens on the basis that they provide occupation for all those mugs that keep multiplying.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-91337636188253691922011-01-19T08:19:45.885+01:002011-01-19T08:19:45.885+01:00My memory is that the box was white and the pictur...My memory is that the box was white and the picture slightly raised, like the writing on really smart invtations - and maybe there was even a gold line or a navy line or both somewhere round the edge of the box. Or am I literally gilding the thing in memory? I'm afraid election nights round at our place are a bit like that one you remember even today - although 'rollies' are no longer allowed or any kind of smokable substance - but the general idea of an election as an exciting kind of sports fixture is retained. And large quantities of wine replace the pleasures of earlier times.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-89415000577315836472011-01-19T01:54:27.278+01:002011-01-19T01:54:27.278+01:00I used to buy my dad 'Capstan plains'. No ...I used to buy my dad 'Capstan plains'. No filter, blue box, bearded man. Could they have been 2 shillings each? And sometimes he rolled his own from tins of tobacco that mum used for budgetting when they were empty - one tin assigned for each monthly bill. I have a memory of an election night, with the radio tuned correctly and dad at the dining table with the full list of electorates and candidates from the daily paper spread out, several pencils sharpened, a rubber (eraser!) and a pile of 'rollies' beside the ashtray. Ready for anything!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-41152242586038612722011-01-17T21:32:55.666+01:002011-01-17T21:32:55.666+01:00Nurse - there was another good one of his in the l...Nurse - there was another good one of his in the last ALR.<br />Julie - I have a double silver one, but my favourite is the brass. I am very sorry about the ruler, as only someone who loves stationery as much as me can be.zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-22455111771010816782011-01-17T04:23:08.439+01:002011-01-17T04:23:08.439+01:00Under the circumstances of this little tub-thump, ...Under the circumstances of this little tub-thump, 'blotted out by guilt' is an appropriate turn of phrase.<br /><br />Somewhere, I have a sharpener like that, only 'tis silver.<br /><br />I was devastated last year, in a move, to discover that I no longer had the wooden 12" ruler that I purchased from Ells in Newcastle whilst at Teachers' College in 1968.Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09513648613788716017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4905080602885676490.post-59234694395401476462011-01-16T11:49:53.660+01:002011-01-16T11:49:53.660+01:00I love that poemI love that poemAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com