Where and how to store your Apple Pencil is an ongoing first world problem for iPad Pro users. Apple’s cases and covers don’t include a home for your pencil; except for the eye wateringly expensive Leather Sleeve. Apple make a very nice looking Pencil Case, but I could never understand why it wasn’t magnetic allowing… Continue Reading ›
If you write with a pencil, you get three different sights at it to see if the reader is getting what you want him to. First when you read it over; then when it is typed you get another chance to improve it, and again in the proof. Writing it first in pencil gives you… Continue Reading ›
A list with reviews of the books I’ve read over the last decade or so, cunningly arranged in the order in which I read them. Starred titles are those I highly recommend ★ For 2026 I’m also experimenting with StoryGraph to track my reading. Reeling In The Years 2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020… Continue Reading ›
It was a pleasant café, warm clean and friendly, and I hung up my old waterproof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a café au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket… Continue Reading ›
Last week was National Stationery Week here in the UK. During this joyous week celebrating paper, pencil, pen, and ink, I was contacted by the delightfully named Anna Rainbow from The Pen Company, asking if I would like to review one of their items. It would have been rude to say no. After chatting for… Continue Reading ›
I’ve had my POPA for a little while now so I thought it time I share my thoughts and review this great little iPhone accessory. The POPA Software I’ve been using the app both with and without my POPA, and it’s become one of my favourite iPhone photography apps. What I love most about the… Continue Reading ›