I like pencils. I’ve always preferred pencils to pens..probably because I always feel the need to correct myself. Thank god for computers…

Anyhoo. For those unaware, I live very close to the world’s largest pencil (64 ft) – where else but in Bolehland Malaysia. And here is the place that claims to have the ‘WORLDS LARGEST colored PENCIL’. Note the colored in fine print. Its about 2m+,but the pencil in Malaysia (in the Faber Castell factory) is about 4 storeys high. Hah! Bite me, Cumberland Pencil Museum!

It costs £2.50 per person to wander about the Keswick Pencil Museum, which comes with a free pencil. Utterly silly, but you do learn some facts – lead(graphite) was ‘apparenty’ first discovered in Keswick and that the best food to use for pencils are Californian cedar. During WW2, pencils were sent to concentration camps for the POWs; inside it only contained a short lead. The rest of the pencil was actually stuffed with a small map, and underneath the rubber was a small compass. How cool was that!

Seriously…this is their world’s largest pencil. Those who had ever used the highway to get to KLIA would see the 4 storey high pencil on the side of the highway.

Color your life

PS: Apparently bolehland’s record have been broken, there is now a 76ft pencil in New York!!Theoretically, this was unveiled just after my trip – so it does not count! Hahahah…

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