School closures in the UK because of COVID-19 mean that schools gave their pupils work to take home for the next weeks.
It’s great that the common school pencil in the UK is the amazing Staedtler Noris and not some scratchy no name pencil.
Above you can see the pack our son got, including a Noris along with a Silvine workbook and worksheets.
I didn’t realise there is something called a pencil beard / moustache, but it looks like it’s helping fight the Coronavirus.
…well, not quite, but it is one of the beards the NHS (British healthcare systems) approves for use with a respirator.
This Sky News article has more information.
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I got to know Fruit Sticker Albums from pencil talk and thought of them as a curiosity. Turns out they are more main stream than I though: Yesterday they were in the news…
You might hardly notice them, but some people love fruit stickers 🍏🍌🍉
— BBC Somerset (@bbcsomerset) February 27, 2020
Carl Middleton from Milverton collects them and makes fruit sticker albums. pic.twitter.com/ZIpmTLxNsl
You can follow their Twitter account at https://twitter.com/StickersofFruit.
A few days ago the UK’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, reshuffled his cabinet. This kind of event is one of those rather rare occasions when you can see the government’s nice pen trays in the news.
I first noticed these pen trays when I watched the original House of Cards TV series from 1990. This led me to looking into this and I found out that the real life pen trays are very similar.
Have a look at Tony Blair’s cabinet table in 2001.
The highest resolution photo of the cabinet table I could find was from the Jewish Chronicle. Below is a magnification of the pen trays. The pencils look similar to the Shaws pencils used for voting in the UK. By the way, the Lamy Al-Star (or is it a Safari?) is not Theresa May’s but Hilda Worth’s.
If you want to see more of these pen trays, here they are…
…under Boris Johnson
…under David Cameron
…under Tony Blair
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