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Diamond or rust?
When I mentioned at the weekend that I was going to return to something I’d mentioned in passing, I doubt many people will have guessed that it would be the subject of cassettes. Yet here we are. The desire to rediscover this much-maligned music format has been growing for ages and I’ve been close many… Continue reading
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Dimanche encore
If I could, this Sunday morning, bestow upon one person an award for the most consistent use of fountain pens in “pop” videos, I’d go for the French singer Julien Clerc. He is not new to me, I bought a cassette of his hits in Paris in 1980 and have had a soft spot for… Continue reading
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Off-planet
It feels like I’ve been off-planet for a few weeks, and it remains to be seen whether I’ve fully made it back, or if the command module is still bobbing around on the ocean, gently steaming. I’m pleased to say that the experiment using the week-to-page bound diary with its lined page for notes has… Continue reading
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Try it on for size
It’s okay, it’s not another new pen, it’s my good old Waterman Hemisphere Rose Cuivre which I’ve been using in my planner/diary this week. And I’ve dug out my old Cross single-pen case because I have a yen to go slightly minimal for the coming week. I’ve had a bit of a cold hanging around… Continue reading
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Why I bought another blue pen
I know I left you in my previous post with a tantalising suggestion that I might not have simply bought another blue, metal-bodied fountain pen with chrome trim, but I will tease you no longer. I dreamed of breaking out of this incredibly narrow field of choice, but found myself reverting to type. What can… Continue reading
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Oldest and newest
I took the photos for this blog post intending it to be on a much broader stationery subject, but having started to write I found I wasn’t at all interested in what I was saying. Does that happen to other bloggers? I always think if I can’t summon up any enthusiasm for my work, I… Continue reading
Pam Alison Knits 