Okay, I stole the title for this post from T. Rex's 1972 single because I wanted something to suit this lovely honey-gold ink, just one of four colours I ordered from The Writing Desk on Wednesday morning and which arrived with the post lady a scant 24 hours later. In these times when retailers are… Continue reading Solid gold easy action
Tag: Parker 51
A day of fountain pens
All the goodies I'll be playing with today: Lots of old, nothing new, something borrowed, and bits of blue It's Fountain Pen Day! I'll be celebrating by using my fountain pens, but I do that every day so I may not notice a lot of difference. Happily, every day is Fountain Pen Day chez PamAlison.… Continue reading A day of fountain pens
Ring planner experiments – the inserts
National Stationery Week Day 4 Welcome to National Stationery Week Day 4 and my second post showing an experimental set-up of a Personal size ring-planner (previous post here). I have been concentrating on the nerdy part - testing various pens and papers to see what might or might not work and some of the results… Continue reading Ring planner experiments – the inserts
Ring planner experiments – the basics
National Stationery Week Day 2 Welcome to National Stationery Week Day 2 and the first of four posts in which I will be detailing an experimental set-up of a Personal size ring-planner. Today I have chosen the planner I will use for the experiment - I thought I would use my Filofax Original Fuchsia Patent,… Continue reading Ring planner experiments – the basics
“The Way We Were”
Can it be that it was all so simple then Or has time rewritten every line? Ah, the good old days, the good old days. You will remember them - back at the end of March when I was writing about the black Parker 51 fountain pen pictured above. But time moves inexorably on and… Continue reading “The Way We Were”
