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Different kinds of Noris

Leave a Comment / Pencils, Seen in the wild, Staedtler / 25 August 2015 / Noris, seen in the wild, Staedtler, Staedtler Noris

A Chinese Noris

The Noris got another good spot on the BBC’s programme. Again on the Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School programme. This time in the final episode, where it was used to write Chinese characters.

Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School (Image © BBC)

A Work Noris

Then something else happened: after more than ten years I got the first Noris from my employer! We usually get Lyreco pencils in the stationery cupboard at work, but last week and this week I did another task in another part of my employer’s organisation ^[1]In case you are familiar with the UK Higher Education sector: I was doing clearing. – and there was a box of Noris pencils in the stationery basket. Maybe the good stuff (the Noris pencils) is usually reserved for management and special occasions? We did get all the good stuff on the day: they did provide tea, coffee, biscuits, even Snickers etc ^[2]and there must have been a serious Snickers thief. Every day at least three shoe box sized baskets of Snickers, Mars and KitKat disappeared. I guess everyone would have had to eat at least five bars … Continue reading, so if they give us expensive food, why not expensive pencils, too? I wish we had Noris pencils all year round at work…

A School Noris

…and finally – more Back to School offers. This time in Sainsbury’s. Five Noris pencils for £1.12. Not as good as the Staples offer I mentioned recently, but at Sainsbury’s you don’t have to take five HBs, you can also take the ‘graded’ pack.

The screenshots in this blog post has been taken from Episode Three of Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School, a documentary on the BBC. I believe that the use of the screenshot shown in this blog post falls under “fair dealing” as described by the UK Copyright service.

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↑1	In case you are familiar with the UK Higher Education sector: I was doing clearing.
↑2	and there must have been a serious Snickers thief. Every day at least three shoe box sized baskets of Snickers, Mars and KitKat disappeared. I guess everyone would have had to eat at least five bars to make so much food disappear.

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Casualty

2 Comments / Seen in the wild, Staedtler / 18 August 2015 / BBC, Noris, seen in the wild, Staedtler, Staedtler Noris

A casualty of the classroom – in Episode Two of Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School.

There were also at least two more Noris pencils and a Noris sharpener – with two million viewers on the BBC.

I’ll also use this opportunity to link to the Noris in the Wild page again.

The screenshots in this blog post has been taken from Episode Two of Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School, a documentary on the BBC. I believe that the use of the screenshot shown in this blog post falls under “fair dealing” as described by the UK Copyright service.

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Back to School offers

7 Comments / Offers / 4 August 2015 / Back to School, Noris, offer, Staedtler, Staedtler Noris, Staples

This blog post is probably only of interest to you if you are in the UK.

I went to my local Staples today to get a Duraclip folder and was excited to see some nice Back to School offers.

A lot of their normal stationery is overpriced, but some of the offers are fantastic.

You get 10 Staedtler Noris, plus an eraser and a sharpener for £1.50. I also got some Washi tape and Lego erasers on clearance for 50p.

Pencil shaped staplers for 89p. I didn’t buy one.

…didn’t know Crayola makes pencils.

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A Finnish Noris…

Leave a Comment / Pencils / 30 July 2015 / knife sharpened, Made in Finland, Made in Germany, Noris, Staedtler, Staedtler Noris

…, well – at least sharpened with a Finnish knife.

Ok, I admit it. I couldn’t resist. Not after A Franconian Noris, A Franken Noris and A French Noris, but I promise I will stop now.

I use this opportunity to mention the Noris in the wild page again.

As usual I think the pictures look best in full resolution.

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A Franconian Noris

Leave a Comment / Pencils, Staedtler / 4 July 2015 / Alan Montag, BBC, Clifton, Engrenages, Episodes, Fred Bianconi, Frédéric Frometin, Jonathan Aris, Juge Robin, Make me Welsh, Noris, Philippe Duclos, Spiral, Staedtler, Staedtler Noris, The Game, tradition

Franconia Day

This weekend is Franconia Day (Tag der Franken) again, so I thought this blog post should feature some Franconia pencils – in the wild.

Juge Robin's pencil — Juge Roban’s pencil (Image © Son et Lumière)

Engrenages

According to Wikipedia “only two European regions continue to be associated with the Franks” ^[1]I’m not sure whether this claim is true, but nevertheless I’ll just repeat it here:

Franconia – to link this blog post to Franconia: it’s where the pencils in the following pictures were probably made (unless they were old stock)
and Île-de-France where the pencils in the following pictures were being filmed.

Juge Roban's pencil — Juge Roban’s pencil (Image © Son et Lumière)

These screenshots have been taken from Engrenages, where they used to use the BIC Matic last season.

While the magistrate is using Staedtler’s Noris the police is using the Tradition:

Staedtler tradition (view in full resolution to see the pencil) (Image © Son et Lumière)

The Game and Clifton

Meanwhile, on the other side of the channel. Actually, not meanwhile, but kind of 40 years earlier: MI5’s Alan Montag is using a Staedtler Noris. There are a lot of pencils in the series, but usually they are unidentifiable yellow/orange pencils. For a few minutes I thought Joe Lambe’s accent is Irish until I realised it’s one of the different types of Scouse ^[2]I should have recognised it earlier …a few years ago I had a student with a very similar accent.

Alan Montag listening in with a Noris (Image © BBC Cymru)

The previous screenshot is from the great TV series “The Game” – from 2014, but set in the 1970s. In contrast here’s an MI5 pencil from the real 1970s – from the story Atout…coeur! / Hartkloppingen! from Franco-Belgian comic series Clifton. Burton and Taylor seems to be a reference to Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, the design of the pencil seems to be based on the Staedtler Lumograph.

Clifton's pencil — Clifton’s pencil (Image © Turk & De Groot)

Make me Welsh

After the BBC’s Make me a German this time: Make me Welsh. Funnily enough the TV series The Game I just mentioned was produced by BBC Cymru Wales, too. Sean told me about this programme and sent me a screenshot showing pupils using Staedtler’s Noris (very common in British schools).

Episodes

If that’t not enough Franconian pencils yet – there are plenty more in the latest season of Episodes. Episodes does again feature an extremely high density of Noris pencils per episode. I’ll skip the screenshot though as it would be virtually indistinguishable from the last one I posted.

Noris in the wild

To celebrate what is probably my favourite pencil, the Noris, I have put together a page from the different Noris in the wild blog posts, which can be found here.

I would like thank Sean for the Make me Welsh screenshot.

I believe that the use of the screen shots, taken from Engrenages, The Game, Clifton and Make me Welsh falls under “fair dealing” as described by the UK Copyright service.

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↑1	I’m not sure whether this claim is true, but nevertheless I’ll just repeat it here
↑2	I should have recognised it earlier …a few years ago I had a student with a very similar accent

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