This is an odd post, but I do eventually end up reviewing a pen and some ink, honest, you'll just have to trust me and we'll get their together. Regular readers will know that a few years ago I traveled back to England from Canada, to attend my mother's funeral. Prior to that, apart from …
Back in early January and February of this year, I found myself looking for a Traveler's Notebook (TN) as a gift for one of my daughters. She had always envied my Traveler's Company regular-sized version, but she didn't think she would get on with the elongated, rectangular size. We had looked at the passport sized …
Continue reading A Great A6 Traveler’s Notebook, but Definitely No Traveling
Until recently, I've been using my old dissection kit carry case as a perfectly acceptable leather pen case. I say perfectly accessible, this I suppose is defined by what you find perfectly acceptable. The case dates back to my biology degree in the 1990s, and there are slots that will hold 12 large pens with …
Continue reading Galen Leather 10-Pen Case in Crazy Horse Brown
It's been a strange week here. Firstly, my wife had an accident at a conference in Ottawa (ice-rain + sidewalks = experience to be avoided), which aggravated an existing back problem and meant she wound up in bed for more than a week (a nightmare for Mrs. I Will Do Everything With No Help From Anyone). …
If you're one of those people that looks for stationery or nice pens on the interwebs, then you have probably found it difficult to avoid reading about the Traveler's Notebook (from The Traveler's Notebook Company in Japan, formerly Midori). They're written about on almost every pen and stationery site you may stumble across, and—I should …
Continue reading The Traveler’s Notebook—With A Leather Thong
This was an eBay purchase from a seller in China. After looking for nice leather covers for A5 journals in Canada, I was a bit disillusioned with what was available for my budget; basically, not a lot. So I took to eBay, and found this... Minimalist Leather journal cover for Leuchtturm 1917 Medium A5 Notebook Jootbook Firstly, …
If you buy a nice pen, it rarely just stays on your desk, and even then, if your desk is anything like mine—with cats and children that visit—you might want to think about protecting those shiny, polished objects of desire. In April this year, my wife Lorraine, two daughters and myself, found ourselves staying in …
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