Pipistrello's Commonplace Book

INGREDIENTS LISTS: "C" Carbon Paper Crystal or Methyl Violet Base  300 parts Red Oil                                     600 parts Sesame Oil                            3500-4000 parts Carnauba Wax                       3500 parts Chalk, Billiard Calcium Carbonate, Precipitated    115 g. Gypsum, Calcined                            35 g. Pigment Powder (Blue, Green)        50 g. Borax Water                                       2% Crayon, Blackboard Calcium Carbonate, Precipitated     60 lb Kaolin Clay              ...

They tried to look as if they were listening, but they couldn't keep it up. Sitting silent, talk was collecting inside them. Talk is like love; the more it is suppressed, the more it must come out. It gathers force from hindrance. Dorothy Whipple, "Tea at the Rectory", 1945

But there was a time - and the Peddars Way belongs to it - when a road, like fire and a roof, was one of the primitive blessings of life; and, more than that, a sign that men could combine in a common task and follow the same track to a journey's end. H. V. Morton, In Search of England, 1927