From the desk
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Scribbles – a notebook review
My Filofax Holborn personal-sized planner keeps going from strength to strength and, apart from occasionally wondering whether the week-to-view diary is the best option, I have no intention of changing it for the foreseeable future. However, it’s become clear to me over the last couple of months that there are two areas of my life Continue reading
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Are we ready for a change?
It’s time to ink some pens and to ask myself that thorny question, am I bored yet? Has the Scribo ink begun to lose its allure? Can I possibly want to spend any more time with the Onoto pen? Do I want a change and, if I do, which particular change do I want? The Continue reading
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It’s only an appointment book
I’m aware it’s been very quiet on the planner front on this blog recently. That doesn’t reflect what has been going on in my head or on my desk, but it is indicative of my lack of direction. My heart wants to use A5 paper, but since setting up the A5 Filofax last October I’ve Continue reading
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Not at the pen show
I never intended to go to the Spring Pen Show in London, but now the date is here and I’m rather sad that I didn’t. Perhaps it’s because the weather is so glorious and spring-like. Perhaps it’s because I wandered down to the train station early this morning, and as I looked along the tracks Continue reading
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Two Twelve Twenty-four
December has dawned so I think it’s time to catch up on the pens and inks I’ve been using recently. I also need to ruminate on the first two months using my personalised Filofax diary insert inside the cover I found on Etsy (my Fauxlifax). I mainly used two pens through November: my Onoto filled Continue reading
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Scribo ink – Notturno Viola
I think the time has come to work my way through some ink and I’m going to start with this massive bottle of deep, dark purple from Scribo. When I started to think about an ink to pair with the Onoto, this was high on the agenda. I originally popped in a cartridge of Herbin’s Continue reading
Pam Alison Knits 