Okay, fine, I am running out of blog post headlines. Stop sniggering. I know many of us are always on the lookout for noodling notebooks. I think it’s a fair conclusion that pricier notebooks do have better paper, especially for fountain pen users. That makes it quite a challenge to find an easily-available, inexpensive notebook …
I found this in a 7-storey bookstore on Fuzhou Road. On the third floor, I passed beneath an arch bedecked with flashing lights and neon Stabilo stickers to enter the pen section. The salesladies had no English and I had no Mandarin, so we invented sign language for “No, not the rollerball, the fountain pen!” …
Better than the Cauliflower Festival, whose billboard waved goodbye to me as I was zooming towards Shanghai’s Pudong airport. I was in Shanghai for work, but was lucky enough to be billeted a five-minute walk away from Fuzhou Road. Fuzhou Road is shop after shop of books, office supplies, Chinese calligraphy supplies… and fountain pens. …
I don’t have too many matching sets. There’s a Waterman 100-year in red, and there’s this, a Conway Stewart Dinkie No. 526 with a matching No. 2R Â pencil. That’s about it. I imagine a lady carried these in a matching purse – oh, or even a reticule (I like that word, no one uses it …
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 Like brush-and-ink doodling. (If you use a brush, does that still qualify as doodling?) Whilst performing triage on the cds in my drawer (if labelled, inspect; if unlabelled, drop into trash bin) I found one that had scans of comic strips from 13 years ago. I look at them now and think, I can’t …
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I have learned that an excellent way to mitigate Notebook Overpurchase Guilt (NOGuilt) is to write reviews of said notebooks. That way, every time I purchase yet another notebook I cannot possibly need, I feel like I am doing others a service. (Insert self-justification hurl here.) Out of such mental contortions a good thing occasionally …
First, it’s the name. “Blue Night” leads me to expect a dark blue, like an indigo touched with black. The label on the ink bottle doesn’t help. It is a deep night sky touched with purple light. The ink itself is gray, gray, gray. It is not Blue Night.