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I actually have one of these pens
which was given to me by my good friend and editor, the late Gabi Bunton, who I sorely miss.
Angharad
I'm more a rolling ball kind of girl......
Pilot V-point Fine actually. Although more often than not you'll find me with a Pentel Twist-Erase 0.5 mechanical pencil. Hey, what can I say? I am an engineer you know?
Hey, at least I use a pink pen - black ink of course, but pink body.
I've never really been that enamoured of fountain pens. Too much bother, and too much mess. Plus, they tend to leak all over everything - especially when you fly a lot like I do.
Somehow, you manage to keep this story not only relevant, but interesting as well. This chapter is a case in point. You take something as inane as a fountain pen and you not only turn it into entertainment - you create a discussion topic for the evening, lol.
Thanks for making me smile Hon.
Dallas
D. Eden
“Hier stehe ich; ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir.”
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
Date dependant values…
… are what the business world feeds on but as individuals we find it impossible to adapt entirely to the times. Still, is ironing knickers a step to far? Cathy has got me thinking!
Rhona McCloud
Mr Cavendish
Came a creditable 4th in the Omnium.
At secondary school we had a choice - pencil or ink pen - that was finally relaxed in about year four, due I think to parental pressure. I still have my Parker somewhere - oh how I don't miss filling it with ink! Cartridges were much cleaner to use but ate into your funds somewhat more than a bottle of ink!
I'm not sure kids are required to use pen and paper after junior school these days, they are expected to do everything on a computer.
Madeline Anafrid Bell
It is a beautiful pen.
My handwriting was terrible from the git-go. I never really had any instruction. We just started cursive writing in the fourth grade, ca. 1951. I missed the first few days of school that year and I never caught up. After my botched prostate surgery seven years ago and two subsequent surgeries in the next six days it took me the better part of a year to just to be able to write my signature. I'm still having trouble with it. It used to be automatic. Now, I have to stop in the middle of it because the automatic has breaks in it - very frustrating.
Portia
I would suggest a better way of cleaning undies
Cold water wash is fine. But you have to throw in hefty amounts of Oxyclean (I buy the bulk version from Costco) and use a front load washer that concentrates its action. This plus a little Woolite cleans the Dickens out of panties. It also has a side benefit of eliminating to do that periodic cleaning of a front load washer using 'affresh'. If you take a hard look at the Affresh ingredients you will notice it is pretty much the same as Oxyclean. For her, this would be a time saver.
Syringes, needles, blue ink?
The other possibility is that Cathy is a true 'Blue blood' but needs to top it up occasionally.
Still lovin' it. x
At Junior school ...
... we had to use horrible dip in pens and all the desks had inkwells which were kept topped up by the ink monitor :) Then we had to learn to do what we called, for some unknown reason, double writing (ie cursive script) without getting blots on the paper. Just about impossible and made harder by the l took to dry. Biros had just come out and were, of course, forbidden to use for school work because they would spoil our hand writing.
I'd forgotten all this until the last two episodes. I'll do my best to forget again.
Thanks Ang, always a pleasure to read Bike.
Robi
It was like that when I was in junior school
Inkwells and dip pens. We were taught a basic copperplate, then my last year there they changed it all to joined up printing which ruined my handwriting. My elder brother once described it as the trail left by a drunken spider that fell in an Inkwell!
Angharad
Angharad ...
... you can't possibly be that old :) Or they kept up that nonsense for far longer than could be justified other than on grounds of marginal child abuse.
R
It is so hard to find a good
It is so hard to find a good fountain pen today. I really miss that writing instrument as it caused one to write correctly and properly or find a big ink blot on your paper. What I have in use now is pens designed for calligraphy writing. Gives people I correspond with amazement that I can even do it, let alone that they get something like that from anyone today.
Nice chapter, beautiful pen !
Love a good Schaefer fountain pen, however, after ruining a few shirts, I use a Mont Blanc Meisterstruck ball point. I have a thing for pens.
Used to hate those non-cartridge fountain pens, with that rubber ink bladder. Always reminded me of a Three Stooges routine.
Cefin
Nice chapter, beautiful pen !
Love a good Schaefer fountain pen, however, after ruining a few shirts, I use a Mont Blanc Meisterstruck ball point. I have a thing for pens.
Used to hate those non-cartridge fountain pens, with that rubber ink bladder. Always reminded me of a Three Stooges routine.
Dallas, I'm an engineer and a drafts man, Remember those drafting bows. I came close to quitting once or twice after ruining six hours of work.
Cefin
Pens
I don't have a fountain pen but my favorite pen is about 30 years old by now. I use a Papermate that I got way back when I was still on active duty with the US Army. The refills tend to last me between 2.5 to 3 years. :)
Many years ago
when i was in secondary school i had an accident with a pen that cost me a detention , You might think how could that happen ... Well there was this fly doing what comes naturally to flies, Annoying you ! It kept flying around my head breaking my concentration so i did what you normally do , Waved my hand at it , Trouble is i had my fountain pen in my hand when i tried to hit the fly , Ink shot out the end of the pen straight onto the wall , Which was all the teacher saw , Despite my protest that it was an accident he decided that i was just messing around and that deserved a bit of after time school in a boring detention ...Had to use my pen there too to write out " i must not mess around in class " goodness knows how many times . All part of growing up i guess .
Kirri
Fountain pens..
I actually have two fountain pens,one is a cheap one that i refill the ink using a syringe and needle. The other pen comes with a converter,and i bought a bottle of ink of 5 dollars plus in asian currency. I use one for writing in my diary,the other for letter writing. I am glad to read another one of your splendid bike stories~
Aurora