"The innate hostility of inanimate objects"

[mangerton]

A slight tangent from saly's perfectly on-topic evocation of the disintegrating dunked biscuit, it's true!

I blame Anna and her gingernuts!

However, ts, a timely call to order

Well if I may, a fountain pen can be a Dangerous Thing if it leaks in the wrong place. One came apart in my (Harris tweed) jacket pocket when I were a lad, and my mother was Not Pleased.

[Nick Armstrong]

Well if I may, a fountain pen can be a Dangerous Thing if it leaks in the wrong place. One came apart in my (Harris tweed) jacket pocket when I were a lad, and my mother was Not Pleased.

Fair enough, mangie!

Did you manage to keep the ink off your infant brogues, though?

[mangerton]

Did you manage to keep the ink off your infant brogues, though?

I have never owned a pair of brogues, nor even one brogue.

I do think though that my shoes would have escaped uninked.

(Sort of sole survivors, probably. )