04 Friday Nov 2022
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Once more it is the first Friday in November and an excuse, if ever we needed one, to buy more fountain pens. Now in its 12th year. Keep coming back during the day to see a growing list.
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This is the 10th year of the International Fountain Pen Day, which is always on the first Friday of November. A great excuse to go out and buy more goodies, especially as many stores and vendors offer discounts.
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In these troublesome and confusing times I hope everyone finds the treat they’ve been waiting for else protect their wallets from this most dangerous of days.
Continue reading01 Friday Nov 2019
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Today, being the first Friday in November is International Fountain Pen Day. A day of discounts and an excuse to get our pens out. So with all these discounts I bought … no new pens (yet it’s 8pm as I write), but then with all the recent acquisitions, it would both be hard to justify and hard to find something I want. Not only do I have my haul from the October London Pen Show, but a Nakaya Decapod bought from Eciton, as well as the loan of his Eureka Symmetry and Asymmetry pens from South Korea- which I will review shortly. In addition to all this, I finally reached the front of the waiting list, and post USPS caused delays received a Wyvern from Brian Chu at the Red Dragon Pen Company.
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05 Thursday Sep 2019
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There seems to be three ways of discovering Ryan Krusac and his pens. Be at a US pen show he’s attending, from a fountain pen blog/vblog, or from social media, with the results that in Europe he is little known even amongst long term fountain pen enthusiasts. My introduction was through the videos of Mike ‘Inkdependence’ Matteson and David ‘Figboot’ Parker.
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