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"If you see any pencils laying by the roadside do not touch them" A warning from my parents, but had this for years been just a figment of my imagination? I hadn't heard anymore of this, that is until today when national newspapers published the story that one of the German's secret weapons amongst other things was exploding bars of chocolate - which if broken open would have had the effect of a grenade. Listed amongst the other items were however pens and pencils. Perhaps after all it was true and not just another of those wartime stories. I can still recall on one of our expeditions seeing a wooden pencil - crudely made - under bushes in St. Stephen's Place, adjoining Trowbridge Park. Heeding the warning we did not attempt to pick it up. I shall never know whether it was one of these bombs,or maybe just an ordinary pencil dropped by a passer-by but we lived to tell the tale.

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