For one rare, perfect moment I had three pens inked. Three pens is my nirvana. Three pens are easy to use, they don’t invoke any guilt or any need to choose which ones I’m going to allow to languish, thus proving they are second-best. We cannot see, we will not mention, the other two pens Continue reading

This is my button box. It is a joyous comglomeration of colours, shapes, sizes, and textures housed in a deeply nostalgic tin. Far from being a home for retired fasteners, this is a living, evolving organism which is both a useful resource and a source of pleasure. I take buttons out, I add buttons in, Continue reading

I like to scan through the comments that WordPress, very accurately it so happens, assigns to my “spam” folder. Mostly they are gibberish, the sender gets blocked (I know it’s pointless as they are throw-away user identities, but I do it anyway) and the comment gets permanently deleted. Sometimes, though, they are a hoot, like Continue reading

It’s a month since my last update on the pens and inks I was using, so today I’d like to bring you up to date with what has changed, what has remained the same, and how the pens are being used. First up, the number of pens I’ve got inked has reduced to just three Continue reading

This week I am experiencing an utter lack of ability to put words and pictures together in the form of a cohesive blog post. I have half-written a host of treatises on all sorts of subjects, none of which have fired my imagination enough to finish. When I have been relatively interested in the subject Continue reading