Cult Pens Diamine Flower Inks Set – Sweet Pea

07 Wednesday Sep 2022

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Showing my lack of horticultural knowledge, when you mention sweet pea I think of country gardens of days gone by. Little did I know that the plant actually comes from Sicily. Perhaps my imagination is correct and the plant was brought over by young English gentlemen returning from their grand tours round Europe in the 1920s to take root over here in the UK.

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Our Expectations with using Speciality Nibs

02 Friday Sep 2022

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A while back I wrote asking when we should expect nibs that work out of the box and who holds the responsibility. This is only partially a follow up, as the idea actually came out of a discussion else where, and this is on what our expectations should be with those nibs not normally associated with every day hand writing. The stub; italic; and flex nibs.

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Cult Pens Diamine Flower Inks Set – Lotus

31 Wednesday Aug 2022

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For a number of religions this is a flower associated with the Gods, resulting in pictorial depictions of Lotus Thrones. An aquatic plant found across Asia, meaning alas what we get in the UK outside of botanical gardens is but a form of lily bred for a similar looking flower.

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Monteverde Sweet Life Ink Set

26 Friday Aug 2022

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How better to give us a boost as summer ends and the autumnal weather starts than to give in to our sugar cravings with a nice piece of cake. Come late August 2019 and Monteverde helped fill that craving from an ink angle with the Sweet Life set.

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Cult Pens Diamine Flower Inks Set – Sunflower

24 Wednesday Aug 2022

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The chances are most if not all of us will have grown sunflowers as young kids, either at home or at school. For me I remember it being too early when I left for school and too late when I got back to see the flower heads point directly at the sun, changing position over time. Bit of a miss. However, will this ink be a hit for me.

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ScriBo Write Here

19 Friday Aug 2022

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The fountain pen community was shocked back in November 2015 when the Chinese company O-Luxe announced they were closing one of their brands, OMAS, with the doors finally being shut in January 2016. Later that year, out of the ashes, a phoenix rose. Scrittura Bolognese. October 2017 and the first ‘regular’ ScriBo pen was released. A store only collaboration with Write Here of Shrewsbury.

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Friday post may be delayed a week

18 Thursday Aug 2022

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I have actually written and proof read a piece for tomorrow and just have the photos to do. Problem is my NAS died a few days back. Not the biggest issue in itself as everything is backed up, however it’s replacement arrives tomorrow (Friday). Thing is once it arrives I need to get the new one set up and data (including copies of all my photos) restored and so this will be my priority.

Cult Pens Diamine Flower Inks Set – Petunia

17 Wednesday Aug 2022

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I’ll admit it, until I went to look in to the petunia for this review I did not realise nature actually evolved flowers with near black petals. I can think of several reasons why and I suspect they glow white under an infra red light. As someone with negligible green finger knowledge I have been gaining a certain amount of horticultural knowledge while reviewing this ink set.

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Esterbrook Phaeton 300R

12 Friday Aug 2022

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Since Kenro Industries bought the reincarnated Esterbrook they have been doing some good work bringing the brand in to the 21st century while also keeping links to the original company’s past. Late 2018 a new model was brought to the range, the Phaeton 300R, playing homage to the Phaeton 300 pen which was released back in 1964.

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Cult Pens Diamine Flower Inks Set – Dahlia

10 Wednesday Aug 2022

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I will admit I am confused by the naming of this one. I have been open about lacking knowledge when it comes to plants and flowers, so I assumed dahlia would be green in colour, or at least some of the variants. I looked at 12 pages, some 220+ different plant options on the Royal Horticultural Society shop website, and yet the closest I could find was the Tsuki-yori-no-shisha below and that is probably a cream flower with the green being a reflection of the stem. Fortunately a further search showed me there were green ones out there, though not available for purchase in the UK. I did ask a friend who is a keen gardener and he mentioned dahlias do come in every colour bar blue, however the green ones tend to have very little contrast with the foliage around them.

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