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  • Diamine Twilight ink review
    I think it’s hard to instil much character in a dark blue-black ink but Diamine have managed it with Twilight. It’s a beautiful colour with lots of shading. Lamy pur 47, 1.1mm italic nib, Monsieur notebook, terrible handwriting.
  • Pilot Prera fountain pen review
    The Pilot Prera is quite rightly a legend. It’s solidly made and comes in a range of colours. What sets it apart, though, is the nib. When Pilot make a fine nib they do it properly: a very fine line and lovely and smooth to write with. This is one of the pens I always ...
  • Nomadic PE-06 Pencil Case
    I rather suspect that on Monday I will be backing a new Kickstarter project and beginning an impatient wait for a new pen case but in the meantime, here is what I use every day to keep my currently inked pens in. I’m a person who finds it difficult to make choices (can you tell?!) and ...
  • Diamine Kensington Blue ink review
    Continuing in my quest to own and review every blue ink that Diamine do (27, not including the two in the sadly out-of-my-price-range Music Set and not including inks like Teal which are somewhere between blue and green), here is Kensington Blue. Kensington Blue is lovely lovely lovely. It’s a kind of matt blue, I don’t ...
  • Pilot Coleto multipen review
    The Pilot Coleto is a multipen like no other. There are refills available in 15 different colours: Brown, Black, Blue Black, Violet, Aqua Blue, Blue, Clear Blue, Orange, Red, Pink, Cherry Pink, Baby Pink, Apricot Orange, Apple Green and Green and in three different sizes (0.3mm, 0.4mm and 0.5mm). There are refillable pencil and eraser units. There are four different ...