| I believe the whole nation can be divided into two | | | | from a new pen is indescribable. Each notebook brings |
| categories. Those who love stationery and those who | | | | with it a promise of change, a promise to be much |
| just need it. The later of the two was the child at | | | | tidier, and more organised than last time. A promise to |
| school who always had the chewed pencils, broken | | | | start each page with the date and write neatly on the |
| rubbers and pencil cases with things scribbled all over | | | | lines at all times. With the pens we promise never ever |
| them. The kind that you would never want to borrow | | | | to scribble, and to never allow any other pen to grace |
| from and you certainly would want them touching | | | | the pages of the new notebook so long as we shall |
| anything of yours. | | | | live. All of these silent vows are rarely kept longer than |
| The other category is one which I am ever so proud | | | | a week, but the ritualistic aspect of them is what |
| to say that I belong to - stationary lovers. I needed to | | | | matters. |
| have something new at the beginning of each school | | | | When it comes to the appearance of my office |
| term, whether it be as small as a new pencil or as | | | | supplies, anything that looks academic is a sure fire |
| large as a full pack of colour changing felts tips I had to | | | | winner. With my colour coded exercise books and |
| have something. On school trips, some children would | | | | pencils with erasers at their tips, my desks looks like an |
| spend their pennies on sweets, bouncy balls and model | | | | advert for boarding school and I love it! |
| dinosaurs. I, on the other hand would spend my time | | | | And the gadgets! Whilst we've moved on from pencil |
| fingering the over sized pencils, retractable pens and | | | | cases that look like cans of pop, us stationary lovers |
| coloured crayons. With every new year of school | | | | still get all a flutter when a new type of mistake |
| came a new stationary craze. From crisp packet | | | | corrector or heavy duty stapler is released. So next |
| pencil cases to fountain pen erasers I had it all! | | | | time your ordering your office supplies, take a thought |
| This is a habit which I, and many of my stationary | | | | for all the stationary lovers in you office and order |
| loving friends have brought into the office. The joy of a | | | | them something that will fill them with child like |
| brand new notebook or the feeling of the first scribe | | | | excitement. |