Continuing the theme of yesterday’s post – writing, just do it – is this wonderful video from Field Notes featuring writing’s elusive partner, inspiration.
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I’m sitting here listening to Storm Isha battering our battened hatches, and remembering Storm Eunice. I was ‘trapped’ in London for an extra day but managed to find shelter from the storm in Hawksmoor Borough. Desperate times and all that…
As a fountain pen user, I have a Sunday ritual of cleaning and filling my pens that are low on ink. I have a small (ahem) collection of Lamy Safari and Al-Star fountain pens, one of my very favourites is the Copper Orange special edition from 2015.
It’s my favourite Lamy by far and the special edition ink Lamy released with it is both Lamy’s best ink and the best orange ink I’ve used.
Annoyingly the Copper Orange ink was only released in cartridges and so I was more than a little sad when I found the empty cartridge in my pen was my last.
I’ve ordered cartridges that were advertised as Copper Orange but turned out to be just orange before, so I didn’t hold out much hope of finding any stock online.
I found a listing on eBay and ordered with some trepidation. The parcel arrived quickly and was very well packaged which gave me some hope, surely a fraudster wouldn’t go to this much effort. Would they?
I removed the Barbour Sean The Sheep tissue paper that had been wrapped around the cartridges and… they were genuine Copper Orange. All praise the holy ink well.
I know have a stock of just 15 cartridges, but I am tempted to look for more to create my own Copper Orange ink lake.
The highlight of this week was formally launching All Flows 2024.
We already have an amazing lineup of speakers, with more to follow soon. We have a very cool new website courtesy of my talented friend Richard. More importantly, we have a massive 40% off for Mega Early Bird tickets. If you are thinking of coming – book now and save some serious money.
On Saturday I had a very pleasant morning with my son; after a trip to the barbers we had coffee and then popped up to the Super Sausage Cafe for ‘brunch’ which was epic as always.
This morning my lovely wife and I popped to Canal Street Coffee for breakfast. The coffee was excellent as always and supplied by a new local roaster Doe and Fawn.
I have a bag of their filter coffee on order which I’m really looking forward to trying. I hope their filter is as good as their espresso – review to follow.
Wonderfully analogue – surprisingly moving.
Via — The Cramped
The Baron Fig Confidant Notebook is a Kickstarter success story where three friends came together to create their perfect notebook.
As of this week Baron Fig now ship to the UK, and they have kindly sent me a Confidant to review.
I thought however that I would start with an ‘unboxing’ of the Confidant, which I realise may seem a little over the top for a notebook, but the Confidant comes beautifully packaged in a very solid box with a leaflet introducing your new notebook.
I love details like that, and if the packaging is this good I have high hopes for the notebook itself.
In a world where we consume and replace items at an alarming rate, and where there is a multi-billion dollar industry in protective cases for our devices it feels as if almost everything we carry is new and blemish free.
Which is why I love items such as the iPhone in my original Aged to Perfection, and now this wonderfully worn Fisher Space Pen I came across in a review over at The Pen Addict.
“I usually carry this pen as a tool instead of a writing instrument that I enjoy using.”
I love the story that accompanies the review, and that even though there are pens that may write better the author still carries it every day because, as he says, it is a tool.
I think I like the idea of Field Notes notebooks more than I like the actual notebooks these days, but this video is wonderful.
I love the idea that what you write in it becomes the soul of a notebook.