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July: Quite Cross
I have decided to be Quite Cross this July, but don’t worry. It just means I’m mainly going to be using my Cross fountain pens. I could have treated myself to a new pen for this month, but nothing has really caught my imagination, so instead I decided on a frivolous ink purchase – the… Continue reading
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Bring on the inks
This was the lineup at the weekend when I sat down to choose my pens and inks for March. It is almost all the inks I own, the absences are one pack of cartridges which are living at work and one bottle which is hiding away until April. The initial whittling-down was pretty easy because… Continue reading
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The week on paper
Following on from last Wednesday’s blog post, I thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast the word count from the week leading up to Christmas when I used the intentional journaling pages with the past week in my lined journal. I completed the intentional pages on 5 of the 7 days and averaged… Continue reading
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Old ideas for a new month
We’re less than a week into the new month and I’ve been in the mood to change things up. I finished the journal that I had started back in April, the one in which I’d chosen to use only shades of brown ink. I enjoyed that discipline, and I do like the cohesive look of… Continue reading
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London Pen Show Part III
It’s hard to believe that two weeks have passed since the London Pen Show. I don’t feel I’ve completely assimilated my purchases into my regular fountain pen life, though they are inspiring me, each in their different ways. Today I’m going to round off my retrospective by covering what I think of as the odds… Continue reading
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London Pen Show Pt II
Here we are with part two of my London Pen Show recap. This time I’m going to talk about my new Waterman Exception, the pen which I’ve had on my wish-list for a long time but always seemed out of my reach. This is a super pen with some great design features, most notably the… Continue reading
