That's exactly the kind of stuff I mean.
Perfect again Mary.
I get through a huge amount of charcoal in a year working with kids. They use it to draw out a Viking or Roman board game on a piece of cloth.
Sometimes the teachers are the worst problem. They see a tub full of charcoal in nice lengths and they snap them in half before giving them to the kids, by the time I finish a session I've got a tub full of stubs no longer than a centimetre.
I used to buy it from a local supplier but they stopped getting the bog standard stuff and started stocking "artists" charcoal. (The only difference I could see was the extortionate price.
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Realising I could make my own was a bit of a "Damascus" moment brought on by a suggestion here a while ago.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, what I'm trying to say is I can use as much as I can get hold of John.