When, in the mid-1990s, Dr Xiao-Ping Zhai began using traditional Chinese medicine to treat infertility, her Harley Street practice was confined to a couple of rooms, each no bigger than a stationery cupboard.
And, indeed, she was, having done something nasty to her neck while searching for a pen under her desk - it might seem strange, but you'd be more likely to find a pen virtually anywhere other than the stationery cupboard.
The inconvenience of losing a telephone number, particularly for a business, is more than just stationery.
Hart and his fellow teachers disputed this and argued that it was instead marginal cost, saying that other than food, stationery, laundry and similar there was no cost to the school due to the children's presence that would not be there already.
And I've found that ink bought on the Internet from companies like inkjetsuperstore.com is far cheaper than in major stationery stores.
Part of this is a mirror trick – I suddenly see myself peering back – but the rest of it is down to the effective use of space that follows when you fill bookshops with – well, books, rather than books plus stationery plus lattes.
The resulting paperwork was significantly different than standard NHS stationery as it conveyed an inviting aesthetic.
Cycling outside is a very different experience than cycling indoors, stationery.
