First Impressions

On Saturday a couple of new purchases arrived from Cult Pens. I just hadn’t been able to resist the (now finished) offer they had running with the Pen Addict. I’d bought one of the limited edition Lamy Copper Orange AL-Stars with a medium nib and a bottle of Pelikan Edelstein Mandarin. I’d had my eye…

Standing the Test of Time

I’ve been writing here at Pens! Paper! Pencils! for getting on for a couple of years now and have in that time reviewed 76 pens, 29 pencils, 85 inks and 28 other items (notebooks, cases, etc). Over all this time, many pens and inks have entered and then left my affections but some have remained.…

Pens, Nibs, Pens and Nibs

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;…

An Interview with Linda Shrewsbury of CursiveLogic

An Interview with Linda Shrewsbury of CursiveLogic

CursiveLogic is a currently active Kickstarter project project that aims to teach children (or adults) cursive handwriting in four easy lessons. I have backed the project because I think it’s worth supporting though it’s not such an issue here in England. My children (aged 8 and 13) both learned cursive, or as we say here…

Midweek Musings

The Wednesday Weekly post has been the most difficult one to keep up with as it’s the only post of the week that has to be written to a schedule. I wanted to keep it going because a link post is a way of showing appreciation for the interesting things that other people write. I…

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