fountain pens
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My Most Used Pens and Inks – July 2024
July 2024 has been a pretty big pen month for me, as I’ve added a couple of grail pens to my collection, as well as a second vintage pen. But before I get to the exciting new acquisitions, I’ve also been using a few of my trusty older pens this month, some with fun new… Read more
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Stationery Shopping in London
Since starting in the fountain pen hobby last year, I’ve done most of my pen and ink shopping online. This is quite a niche hobby, and so most of the regular stationery stores only stock a few Lamy Safaris and a bottle or two of Parker Quink ink. So any opportunity to shop for pens… Read more
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My Most Used Pens and Inks – June 2024
I haven’t done as much writing as I’d have liked in June 2024, but somehow seem to have ended up with a crazy amount of pens inked anyway! So quite a few of them haven’t been getting as much use as I’d have liked, aside from a couple of old favourites, and some new buys… Read more
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8 Pen Questions
As someone who watches a lot of fountain pen YouTube videos, I’ve been really enjoying seeing all the 8 Pen Question tag videos that everyone has been doing recently (started by Seemownay and Liane Likes). I then saw a fellow blogger take part the other day (Pascal from Peacock Pens), and really enjoyed his post… Read more
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How do you store your fountain pens?
Until recently my pen storage system has been imperfect, but simple: I kept all my inked pens in two pen cases on my desk, and my uninked pens lived in a larger pen case I kept in a drawer. This worked for the most part, but after reworking my desk space following a house move,… Read more
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My Most Used Pens and Inks – February 2024
This month I’ve managed to lower the number of pens I have inked, and have done a lot of cleaning out and storing of some pens I haven’t used in a while. I also made a couple of new purchases though, which subsequently got inked to be tested out, and so I still have 17… Read more
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The Benefits of Writing by Hand
I’ve been an avid writer since I was a kid, scribbling my stories about elves and dragons in cheap exercise books with brightly coloured gel pens. However, as someone who grew up just as computers were becoming ubiquitous, I gradually switched to typing all of my writing, and have pretty much continued with that until… Read more
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Review: Kaweco Perkeo Calligraphy Set
Last week I reviewed the Kaweco Perkeo in the All Clear colour and concluded that it was a great entry-level fountain. The same day I posted that review, I took a trip into Manchester with my fiancé, and we stumbled upon a really cool craft and stationery store called Fred Aldous. Across the three floors… Read more
Inky Imaginings 