From the desk
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A new member of Clan Bluepen
Okay, so they invented this thing called Black Friday. Did you get the memo? Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t be drawn in, but apparently 2020 is not a normal year. You got that memo, right? Anyway, Black Friday… invented… not my type of thing… then I watched this video on YouTube wherein some bloke had… Continue reading
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An idle aside
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fadesFor ever and forever when I move. Alfred, Lord Tennyson“Ulysses” My week has been all knitting and unpicking and writing, though thankfully not un-writing, and so today is just a “quote and a picture” day. A remembrance of sunnier moments, further afield, of… Continue reading
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All these notebooks
This post has been inspired by comments from two lovely friends: Alex W. in the ‘real world’ who mentioned notebook fetishes when she visisted and saw this bureau, and blog-friend ReginaMary who asked in the comments on Friday’s post if I have a separate use for each of my planners and how I keep it… Continue reading
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A day of fountain pens
It’s Fountain Pen Day! I’ll be celebrating by using my fountain pens, but I do that every day so I may not notice a lot of difference. Happily, every day is Fountain Pen Day chez PamAlison. When I looked up from my knitting and noticed this particular celebratory day was looming, I naturally started to… Continue reading
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Suddenly November
Since last week was quiet chez PamAlison, I’ve started working on my 2021 planner set-up. As you may recall, I’m going to use my A5 Filofax Original planner with the slightly narrower than A5 week to view pages from The Stamford Notebook Company (my initial thoughts on these inserts can be seen here). When I… Continue reading
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A day off
As this has been a week where I feel like my head has been on holiday and I haven’t anything to write about, I’m just going to offer a photo of yesterday’s sunrise and some fitting words from Roy Wood in his days with The Electric Light Orchestra. Night turns into gold so the tide… Continue reading
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