21 Friday Apr 2023
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I can’t believe it’s been four months since I last did one of these. Normally it’s because change happens slowly, however I’ve recently just swapped out a pen that was only added after the last post.
Continue reading14 Friday Apr 2023
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There has been a resurgence of posts recently on the venerable Lamy 2000, making the timing of this article some what suspicious, however the idea behind it actually came in January when fellow members of the United Inkdom review group, Scribble Monboddo and Ania M realised they were both doing pieces on the pen and could possibly combine them in to a meta review. Being an owner myself, who was I to pass up the opportunity.
Continue reading07 Friday Apr 2023
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Cult Pens, Cult Pens Exclusive, Nahvalur, Nahvalur Nautilus, Nahvalur Nautilus Tideline, Narwhal, Narwhal Nautilus
Cult Pens celebrated their partnership with Nahvalur (formerly Narwhal) with four exclusive pens, one of which is this, the Tideland version of the Nautilus model. A nautically themed piston-filler design made of ebonite, with portholes to see the ink level.
Continue reading31 Friday Mar 2023
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I know I said I would try and get the photos done for my draft review, however I have spent the last week up north looking after/helping my mother. This was all preplanned and I did have pens with me, however not the loaned one.
Continue reading17 Friday Mar 2023
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I do actually have a review that just needs proof reading and photos taken, however due to a number of upcoming events I am organising I will not have time to post today. Hopefully it will be up on Sunday.
10 Friday Mar 2023
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Last Sunday the Hammersmith Novotel was once more buzzing with talk of an inky nature as the Spring Pen Show returned. Tables of writing instrument and accoutrements, new and used. Gallons of ink and mountains of paper. I entered intending to socialise and spend not one sou.
Continue reading03 Friday Mar 2023
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I’ll be honest, partly off the back of my Magna Carta Elements, when I heard they were making this pen for a US pen show I was interested, and with it appearing to possibly be a one-off I was hoping there would be some left over to buy on line. There were not. More appeared for another US based show and I contacted Hiren over whether there would be more. There would be and online, but not straight away. Come October last year and I suddenly found Magna Carta would be at the London Pen Show, remembered I wanted a Denima and crossed my fingers.
Continue reading26 Sunday Feb 2023
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I wonder how many of us have blotting paper. Personally I’ve had an ink blotter with paper since I was a school kid, however many in our hobby do not. So why this post. Well from my daily carry write ups you will know that a Midori Traveller Passport Journal accompanies me most the time I am out of the house, plus a Midori Traveller Journal sits in my travel or work bags. I detail the pens held in their loops, but not what else is attached.
Continue reading17 Friday Feb 2023
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Sigmund Freud wrote that we are nurtured as toddlers to collect. Sure much if not all, of his work has now been debunked, but too many of us look at limited edition releases of pens and go all Pokemon, have to catch (collect) them all, and boy are the big makers aware of this. Be it the Writers Editions from Montblanc or the flood of annual releases from Lamy, often covering five to eight lines of writing implements. Kaweco are no strangers to this, however limit things (normally) to just their basic Sport and AL Sport models.
Continue reading10 Friday Feb 2023
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I am quite open about the abuse the pen attached to my Midori Traveller Passport journal takes, Much is the bouncing around in a large cargo pants pocket, bouncing with every step I take. It is now time to consider a change, either from within my existing collection or some thing new.
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