That's my challenge for April 2023. Whilst many within the fountain pen community are getting ready to celebrate the start of April by dipping into 30 inks over 30 days, I'm going to head in the other direction for a deep dive into one particular ink. The ink I thought about buying a completely new-to-me…
March has been a slow month, but at least the daffodils have been busy. I have ambled through the days, enjoying my triumvirate of inked pens which I've rotated, day by day, for my journal writing. Each has its own character, and two of them tie as my favourite. The little Kaweco is such a…
What a difference a week makes! Suddenly my current knitting project looks like a cardigan and is showing up in a fairly accurate colour. Next up, I have to tackle the band which will run all the way up the fronts and round the neck. I have many ideas on how I could approach this.…
I've recently been contacted by a reader to ask if I can give some direction about lined paper for an A5 Filofax. This turns out to be the type of subject that I really enjoy thinking about and researching. Naturally, I have to qualify my thoughts by pointing out that I'm always going to be…
This was the lineup at the weekend when I sat down to choose my pens and inks for March. It is almost all the inks I own, the absences are one pack of cartridges which are living at work and one bottle which is hiding away until April. The initial whittling-down was pretty easy because…
I wanted to do a proper knitting update with lots of spiffing photos, but this picture of a seam is all I've managed. The yarns in this cardigan are not easy to capture via photography, and the project is at a point where it has all the gawky ungainliness of an hour-old foal. This state…
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