06-06-2022, 12:38 PM
I have a very special box of 24 Fabre Castile pencils - aged 65 years that have only ever been lovingly used once -I always wanted them but my parents just couldnÔÇÖt afford them - they were probably equivalent to a tank of gas in Dads sheep truck - anyway when I was 10 I was one of the unlucky kids of that era to get polio - I can remember the day Dad brought me the pencils - they wheeled my iron lung so I could see him in the mirror holding them up in the next room - he wrote me a note to say to be a good girl and he would leave them with the nurse - my staid old maiden aunt popped into view next she had a banana and a huge big drawing of a health germ - can remember it was like it was yesterday - the pencils still sit in their box didnÔÇÖt ever want to sharpen them away .