You know, considering I live on the South Coast of England, with all it's chalky cliffs, you wouldn't have thought it would be so bloody hard to find some chalk. I recently purchased a dartboard with a cabinet that you can keep scores on, so I went out in search of some chalk in the town centre. I tried half a dozen stationers and spent over an hour looking for something I eventually found, not white however, multicoloured, and it cost me 25p. I couldn't believe the trouble I had to go to in order to find it. Seriously in Southampton, I could find a hooker faster than I could find some chalk!!!!!

So has anyone else had difficulty finding chalk? Or anything else that you considered to widely available before you realised you needed it?