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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
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Retreat
It is Sunday morning and I am currently halfway through a DIY solo writing retreat weekend. What, you may ask yourself, is that? Well, a traditional writing retreat would be a group of writers getting together in a quiet, scenic location to work on a mix of group activities and their own projects, with the… Continue reading
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You’ll know when it’s autumn
It isn’t really autumn today, but you’ll know when it gets here. You’ll know because the blushing berries will reveal their crimson hearts. You’ll know because the flowers which bloomed with an old master’s oil-paint madness will turn to watercolour and then seep quietly away. You’ll know by the dusty shadows summer has left in… Continue reading
