AIBU to ask if you've been to the Keswick Pencil Museum?

[BlooferLady]

Oh! Oh! I am HOWLING with laughter!

They have the most fantastic website - it's priceless, I can't see through my tears -

From 'Plan Your Visit' - "Explore the museum before you come and discover all the great things to see and do. You can journey through the history of pencils and pencil making!"

It's only a tenner for a family ticket but for £15 you can visit the bungalow museum as many times as you like during the year!

And the cafe is called SKETCHERS!!!!!

And there's a genuinely spine-chilling wax doll stuck helplessly in a cavern underground - WTF is he doing, mining for those erasers you stick on the end???

Reassuringly, they can take large numbers, and there's a Drawing Zone where you can get hands-on with the pencils

Oh Lord I'm laughing so hard I've nearly thrown up my prawns - surely some MNetter has been there? Is it as AWESOME as it looks?!

I haven't been, but Auntie Mabel and Pippin went on an episode of Come Outside. So I feel like I've had the experience!

I love the lake district

just to drive through it I'm in awe

Oh yes the cock museum, I'd heard of that!

I went there 31 years ago and loved it, but those were simpler times and I was considerably younger :P

How can anyone not have heard of Keswick though? Isn't that like never heard of Blackpool or something? (and before anyone says anything, I'm from London so it's not like it's on my doorstep!)

I've never been to the Lakes - or at least, only been one the way up to the Highlands. Then that Coogan/Brydon series came out, and now I'm desperate to go. Happily, the Pencil Museum has given me added incentive

"never having heard"

Stupid lack of editing facilities...

penis museum
how ruuude
would love to go there

Mrs I'd heard of it, but wouldnae have been able to place it on a map. What can I tell you - pig ignorant all matters geographical, me. I got lost walking home from school once. Happens to us all, you say? Yeah, but I was 16

Keswick is a beautiful place. Am due a trip to the lakes.

You should come to the Highlands,Trinity.
Just as awesome and lots more of it.

Me too Rhino - do you think they sell dildos in the museum shop?! Classy ones, obviously. Made out of ice and bronze or similar

we want to go camping in the higlands and fishing
dp is trying to get a decent boat
we want to go to loch ness aswell

barometer world anyone?

www.barometerworld.co.uk/

The PILs have been many times, and keep telling us it's fantastic and we must go. They are met with laughter.

I went about 20 years ago and can honestly say I enjoyed it!! Although when it is raining in the Lake District anywhere dry is good........

Seriously it was OK - give it a try!

that's the pencil museum, not the penis museum btw

We went to the Pencil Museum. Most notable item was a pencil from WWII which had a map rolled up and concealed in the hole bored for the lead.

And a cross section of Cedar Pine, which has that distinctive nice pencilly smell. All pencils are made of this I now know

And you get a FREE pencil with your £10 entry ticket!

We went in April before the last stretch of the drive home. They gave us half our parking fee back and they gave the kids quiz sheets otherwise it would have been rather boring. Was gutted to not get personalised pencils for the kids as the machine was out for lunch.

I went there years ago. I was most impressed with the gold and silver pencils and the rainbow one. I spent some of my hard earning holiday pocket money on them.

We used to go to the Dracula Experience in Whitby every year. Was a running joke how crap it was. We left it a few years and then visited when I was a teenager and with just my parents. They had a real person dressed up in a dark cloak follow us around. I was petrified!

I went there in 1981.It was ok.Honestly.

..but the highlight of keswicl for me was paddling rubber dinghies on derwentwater.

In a former life I sold things to the museum, never visited though.

Bloofer- I'm with you. I've only got to think of the words "Pencil Museum" and I'm in fits! It's just so....rib tickling :)

Add to that, I've just seen the Aldi advert "I don't like tea...I like gin" and my neighbours will be knocking to see if I'm ok in a minute :)

I have been.

We were camping at The Quiet Site and the rain was torrential.

We were all most impressed with the World's Largest Pencil.

Sketchers may have had a revamp but there was not so much as a hint of salad garnish with your toastie in 2009. But time and tide etc. Maybe it's gone all Jamie Oliver.