Paperchase Olive Metal Tiffin Box - Agenzio

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I presume that this was due to the fact that it was November and over four of the 18 months covered by the diary had already passed. It is early days, but provided that the LEDs and the control switch don’t break, this is a very useful accessory, for photographing fountain pens, or jewellery or other small items. In the Aurora, with its large ink window, a reserve seems a bit unnecessary as you are unlikely to get caught out with no ink when you have an ink window. However, visitors were given a free tote bag with the handsome UK Pen Shows logo and names of sponsors, which came in handy for my subsequent haul.

Paired with the large Opus it is a wonderful pen, perhaps a poor-man’s Conid bulkfiller, but a great long-haul writing tool.It is a lovely pen and I am very happy with it but to be honest its OB nib does not perform any better than the Moonman’s. Paperchase was founded in 1968 and grew to be a familiar sight, along with stationers Rymans and WHSmiths. The ruled version gives you 240 pages of very smooth and pleasant Champagne paper, with 33 rows to a page and with a row height of 6.

I did not have any immediate need of a notebook (an understatement, tbh) but was nevertheless tempted by this one, mainly I think due to the interesting B5 size which sits as a nice compromise between A4 and A5. I tried writing a paragraph with five different inks (Waterman Serenity blue, Diamine Tavy, Waterman Harmonious green, Montblanc Velvet Red and Diamine Pelham blue. I have been using a pedometer app to count steps since August and found that I had 500 miles on the clock after 4 months. This was a club-house for the workers and their families, with facilities for football, cricket, tennis, hockey, bowls and swimming with parks and gardens.I bought a light box about a year ago, a self-assembly cube of white plastic, which had rows of many bright LEDs in the front and the back of the top section. According to Aurora the pen needs no special maintenance, other than to flush the pen with warm water if you are to change ink colour or if the ink should stop flowing. I was informed that Semikolon is a sister brand of Leuchtturm, whose hardback A5 notebooks I have used a lot.

This applies now more than ever and I feel very fortunate to have accumulated a vast array of good pens, of which I can see 13 are currently inked, as I sit here. I found it an ideal pen to use for work, as being reliable and well-behaved, but not too precious and ostentatious. As for inks, I also bought a bottle of Aurora blue in the nice special edition bottle, from Kirit Dal’s Aurora table.The lyrics of Paul Simon pop into my head – every page is neatly bound, “for a poet and a one-man band”, or something. I am looking forward to next weekend’s pen show and would be happy to pick up another of these notebooks if the opportunity arises and in a different colour next time.

I once bought some pads of file paper, only to be told that there was nothing to pay as it was all covered by accrued benefits. Personally I do not find this essential as the feed seems to do an excellent job of regulating the flow of ink to the paper. Also, because every pen is slightly different, it helps to distinguish them, if you have more than one.

The square, clear plastic lidded boxes are very handy for keeping fountain pens if not in current circulation.