Hopeless
Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 10:40AM
Put me anywhere near an ink pen and I am immediately covered in the stuff. My inky fingers were such a mess yesterday afternoon and however hard I scrubbed, wouldn’t come clean. I ought to have thought about the fact that I was “on show” last night before I got my pens out!
To think, I was ink monitor at school. At the age of eight, I was given a large bottle of blue Quink and every morning, I went around every desk in my primary school classroom and topped up each inkwell. My teacher allowed me to keep a stick of chalk in my pocket too, in case I overfilled one of them. The chalk soaked up the excess ink quickly and no damage was done. It also came in handy for a game of hopscotch at playtime in the schoolyard.
We’ve talked about how quickly life changes recently. We grew up in a different world, didn’t we?
Gill Thomas
Dorothy, they're Pilot Parallel Pens. I've had them for ages and like them very much. I'm glad to see they're still made.
life
Reader Comments (4)
I am the same. the worst time was life drawing with ink washes at college. more on my leg than on the page.
My Nails always look as if they are in mourning for the cat! I should wear gloves too but I can't get on with them! :-)
The pens look interesting.. ...what are they please?
Dorothy
We had to mix the ink up from a powder, none of this ready made stuff!
I was ink monitor too for a while. As usual though I got into trouble for soaking bits of blotting paper in it and flicking them across the room... so they took the job off me as punishment! :-)