Dorset is a beautiful rural county. It has no cities and no motorways. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to picture how it would have looked in ancient times, such as when the hill fort to the right of this picture was built, 2500 years ago. Tombow Mono 100 pencils, Pink Pig sketchbook
The Tombow Mono 100 is not a cheap pencil. They cost about $2.35 in the USA and around £1.85 in the UK. There is a perfectly reasonable argument that no pencil could be worth this much. People who make this argument are wrong. I sort-of-reviewed the Tombow Mono 100 back in October 2013 but this […]
I’ve been writing a review of a Lamy Linea this week. This is my seventh Lamy and the fifth that I’ve reviewed (either here or for The Pen Company). They all use the same, easily interchangeable, nibs. Most manufacturers use the same nibs across many different models: Faber-Castell use identical nibs with all their pens; […]
This is a beautiful green. The name means Bamboo Forest but for me this colour conjures up freshly cut grass or, because everything reminds me of food, a lovely salad on a hot summer’s day. Here I am doodling the Inkling. I really do love this ink. It dries quickly, has a lot of shading, […]
The Muji Erasable Ballpoint is available in 0.5mm or 0.4mm versions and a variety of colours including red, green, purple, pink, light blue, orange and, like this one, blue. It costs £2.50 in the UK, with refills available for £1.50. I couldn’t find it in the Muji US store. The barrel is simple clear […]