To think that MNers will be able to answer my burning question about Martha Costello's pens in Silk?

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Why does she always hold two pens - a red one and a black one - at the same time?

Surely trying to twiddle them around to write with one or other whilst holding both would be very annoying?

I get that she might need a red pen to highlight important notes but why not just buy a multi-coloured Bic pen?

No-one can help solve this burning mystery?

I hadn't actually noticed!

But maybe they are posh barrister type pens and a bic multi just wouldn't cut it?

Thank you for answering!

But Martha isn't a posh-Barrister-pen type barrister surely?

mind you I have only just discovered this series

no, but as a northerner struggling to fit in with the london elite, she will do what she can to give the allusion of fitting in

I bet her shirts aren't from Primarni!

First two series were much better.

So that we know she is using two colours to write with I guess.

suffolk, she will be using "just off camera make-up assistant" lippy. Always stays put for hours

Mim - I dare say its a device to let us know she writes in two colours ... But, but why do we even really need to know that?

Why doesn't she wield a fluorescent green highlighter pen? Hmm?

to show that being a barrister is a constantly evolving thing and that the assumptions she made when writing her trial notes are wrong/need amending based on the answers given on the day?

Maybe she uses red for defence and black for prosecution comments or vice versa