Shows how slow I’ve been with posting recently that it has taken me two weeks to give festive greetings. It is a new year, hopefully one better from the last for most out there and for for which I have been traditional with resolutions. Forgetting to even think of any 🙂

I was surprised, looking back at this blog, that I still managed an average of one post every two weeks, as it does not feel that way. Certainly I started on a review of the Kaweco Sport Piston Filler pen at the end of November but then hit a busy period and in all honesty, forgot. Hopefully I will complete it within the next few weeks as I still have a pen show purchase to review, at least one pen to revisit, and hopefully a few more reviews.

One of the problems is I have reached that point many other smaller blogs do, I’m not really purchasing new pens as I have reached a saturation point and as I am now early retired I no longer can go to a show and splash out without thinking about it. I still have pens to sell to reduce my collection after all. I am not staying I am not tempted by what’s out there, it is just hard to justify now as I need to feel I will use my new pens and not just purchase ‘garage queens’, err ‘pen draw princes’.

I will post an update on my desk pen set soon. I do not like doing these too often and do not know how much interest they create, especially as there are never many changes (except possibly with the last one). Certainly I have just cleaned two pens and returned them to storage.

Anyhow that is it for now. Here’s to a decent 2026.