A Timex watch in a digital age.
Grab a beverage and settle down whilst I tell you the thrilling tale of a school bag and an idea that grew and grew.
Do you ever have one of those ideas that takes on a life of its own and before you know it its well and truly got way beyond what you thought it would be; this is the story of one of those ideas. Continue reading “The Hogwarts School Bag”
Welcome to Part 2.
In Part 1 I set out to test five different planners for a year and I did so in the certain knowledge that some would fall by the wayside whilst others continued onwards. Continue reading “A Tale Of Two Planners (With Sincere Apologies To Mr Dickens)”
I suppose the first thing to say is that this article started out as a bit of a personal quest, in two parts. Continue reading “A Tale Of Five Planners (With Apologies To Mr Dickens)”
For anyone not familiar with the Wing Sung 698; it’s a very nice Chinese piston filler which until recently was only available with a fine nib but now it is available with a medium nib. Which for those of us that prefer medium nibs, like me, is great news because most Chinese pens still ship with a fine or a fine nib. However, this left me with a dilemma; now that I owned 698’s with medium nibs I wanted to upgrade my other 698’s with fine nibs to medium nibs. Continue reading “Wing Sung 698 Nib Swap”
This is the first in a series of occasional posts talking about short projects I have undertaken; ranging from the things that went well, via not so well to projects I’d rather forget. Continue reading “Side Projects No. 1 – Renovating A Brass Delike Alpha”
