A Timex watch in a digital age.
Anyone who has visited this site will have noticed that when I buy inks I tend to buy either blue or red and I generally lean towards the deeper shades and if not deeper then brighter more highly saturated variations. Continue reading “Going Deeper & Darker With Cult Pens”
Once Christmas and New Year are over then comes January. Often considered the longest month in the year; so, I thought I would review an ink that might brighten things up a little bit. Continue reading “Sheaffer Retro Sunset – An Ink To Brighten Up January”
Today it is time to look at some colours for Autumn and Hallowe’en and for this post I have chosen four inks: Continue reading “Autumn & Hallowe’en Inks”
TWSBI’s latest release is its Cerulean Blue Eco; now there’s nothing new about this Eco that you haven’t already seen on earlier models except the cap and the piston knob are a really nice sky-blue aka cerulean blue. Continue reading “The Blues – Cerulean & American”
A little while back Peter from Berlin Notebook contacted me and asked if I would like to try out some inks; and having something of an addiction to ink, I happily said yes. Continue reading “Inks From Berlin – No.3 & No.6”
Having chosen and published some suggestions for inks for Spring and Summer my thoughts were turning to what I might suggest for Autumn when TWSBI released a new Eco fountain pen and changed my plans. Continue reading “Pen & Ink For Summer ’22”
A long, long time ago in a world far far away; in a time when the internet was known as ARPANet and the ideas that one day turned in to the iPhone were just starting to be discussed, junior schools handed out fountain pens to those leaving to go to high school. Continue reading “Back To School”
I first came across Tom’s Studio when reading ‘Holiday Haul 2021 // Year in Review’on Anne’s site, Weirdoforestpens, where I noticed what looked like a small brass bow tie in one of the photographs. I was intrigues and further into the article Anne mentioned it was from Tom’s Studio. Continue reading “Pen Rests From Tom’s Studio”
It’s been a little while since I wrote one of these posts but having said that it’s only recently that the seasons have finally started to change, and it feels like Spring is finally here. Continue reading “Inks Of The Season – Spring/Summer ’22”
Towards the end of last year whilst walking around a pen show I stopped to speak to Derek from Stonecott Fine Writing Supplies Ltd and we chatted for a few minutes and I left his table with three bottles of Venvstasink:
The Indian Marmalade Company 
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