That Christmas gift to myself and the story of how I came to justify it https://www.flickr.com/photos/pamalisonknits/53432267912/in/datetaken-public/ A Waterman Hemisphere L'Essence du Bleu Let me take you back, if I may, to the balmy days of summer. August 9th, to be precise. A day like any other, but for the fact that a fellow blogger, Rupert…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pamalisonknits/53418295005/in/album-72177720313426587/ Hurrah! I'm settling into the calm, quiet lead-up to Christmas. Work is done, if not for year, then definitely for the long holiday weekend. Gifts have been exchanged, the door is locked, I'm on the inside and the world is on the outside. Nothing much matters for the next three days. I've just enjoyed…
October came and October went, hello and goodbye, nice to see you, don't hurry back. I started the month with three extra-fine nibs inked with what turned out to be the most boring set of inks I could possibly have chosen. Parker Sonnet / Pilot Iroshizuku Fuyu-Syogun This was a great combination and I do…
October is settling in well, though it still seems as if autumn is only just peeking over the horizon. With temperatures regularly sitting above 20℃ until the past couple of days, I couldn't bring myself to move into autumnal oranges and reds, so I ended up turning to a selection of blue inks to start…
I introduced the "ferryman" theme in my previous pen and ink post with a very tenuous link to my chosen trio for September. Never keen to let go of even the slimmest analogy, today I'm going to take you punting down the River Styx. This is very apt, as some of my September combinations have…
It's a whole new month and the changing of the seasons is upon us, although you wouldn't know it from the predicted temperatures for my area in the coming week - above 25℃ every day where it's been closer to a comfortable 20℃ for the past couple of weeks. Even so, the mornings and evenings…
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