Tag: friday picture

Franklin-Christoph Replacement Nib (sketch)

24 January 2014 By ian

I’ve always felt that you find out if a company is any good not when everything is going well but when something goes wrong. When I received my rather beautiful Franklin-Christoph M27 fountain pen last week, the extra-fine nib it came with just wasn’t quite right. The ink wasn’t flowing properly at all. After a […]

Sketching my Gran

17 January 2014 By ian

Here’s a sketch of my Gran, who is 99. This sketch is from her 97th birthday. When she was born, in Sheffield in 1914, Britain had just declared war on Germany; women didn’t have the vote; milk was delivered by horse and cart; no-one had a television and George V was king (and most people […]

Watching Dr Who

10 January 2014 By ian

There’s something magical about a programme that’s been going over 50 years and still has the same effect on children as it always has. I remember quite literally hiding behind the sofa when I was a child and 35 years later, here are my children and nephews fascinated and scared (but wanting more!) in equal […]