Fountain Pens
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A fresh journal
I received this Paperblanks hard cover journal as a Christmas gift from a friend and it was not my intention to use it as my daily journal. In fact, I had decided to keep quotes in it and I had completed the first three pages, though I hadn’t got beyond that. There were two factors Continue reading
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The week on paper
Following on from last Wednesday’s blog post, I thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast the word count from the week leading up to Christmas when I used the intentional journaling pages with the past week in my lined journal. I completed the intentional pages on 5 of the 7 days and averaged Continue reading
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I thought it was the pens
I’ve had a touch of post-Christmas ennui and, as you do, I started to blame it on the pens. I wasn’t using them as much as usual so perhaps I wasn’t loving the pens I had inked, or the inks themselves. I’d been using the same few pens for almost two months and maybe I Continue reading
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Intentions
I’ve been considering a change or two in my planning system in preparation for next year, and one of these has been to rethink how I’m going to use the week to a page diary inserts. My original intention was to interleave a blank lined page between each, thus carrying on with the system that’s Continue reading
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London Pen Show Part III
It’s hard to believe that two weeks have passed since the London Pen Show. I don’t feel I’ve completely assimilated my purchases into my regular fountain pen life, though they are inspiring me, each in their different ways. Today I’m going to round off my retrospective by covering what I think of as the odds Continue reading
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London Pen Show Pt II
Here we are with part two of my London Pen Show recap. This time I’m going to talk about my new Waterman Exception, the pen which I’ve had on my wish-list for a long time but always seemed out of my reach. This is a super pen with some great design features, most notably the Continue reading
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