In Primary School, we used to write in pencil, but, first day of Secondary School we were inducted into the arcane mysteries of writing in ink:
Imagine 35 eleven-year-olds doing this on average once a day: every desk, book, pair of hands and uniform had its inkstains. The fingers I used to hold a pen were permanently stained for about four years - until I moved to a school that was so progressive in outlook that they permitted the use of ball-point pens.
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"Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953
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