A Red Letter Day

My first snail mail receipt from this latest phase of letter writing has arrived. Can I tell you how pleased I am that it came in a RED envelope – I doubt it. It tickled me pink anyway – and it came from Mia. When I registered at Lettermo last week, the first person to pop up and greet …

Saturday Morning

A large deposit at the bank this morning added to an already sizeable reserve – and provided my Blip for today. Popped across the road to Lady PO after divesting ourselves of three skiploads, and I posted two letters to the USA  and one to Malaysia, picking up one of my favourite sizes of Really Useful Box …

On shooting oneself in the foot

My new fountain pen arrived in the post this morning. I was very excited – until I realised that none of my cartridges would fit. It is a Lamy pen and takes a proprietary cartridge. My original intention had been to buy my pen from The Writing Desk, who currently package the pen with a …

Cleaned and Primed

I have my pens cleaned and primed.