Paperchase Olive Metal Tiffin Box - Agenzio

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Some more information about this can be found in Pen Review: Aurora Optima Auroloide by Matt Armstrong of The Pen Habit . It is not, as I first thought, a huge mound of earth but a hollow structure made from scaffolding poles and then with an outer shell and covered with turf and real grass. Box Hill is immortalised in the Richard Thompson song “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” and is a favourite spot for bikers.

for a bag of 50), through literally dozens of notebooks, pads of writing paper and file paper, to a few memorable pen purchases. The problem I soon found was that it was difficult to avoid reflections of all of these LEDs in the pens. Here are a few more gratuitous examples of my recent photos with it:- Lamy 2000 fountain pen with the matching multi-pen. As a child at a boarding school in Reading in the 1970’s, our Sunday morning routine included an hour of letter writing.

I was informed that Semikolon is a sister brand of Leuchtturm, whose hardback A5 notebooks I have used a lot. Aurora nibs are known to be firm (except the flex nib) and to have a distinctive feedback, which is not to everyone’s taste. I have two: one is an all-glass design with a long slender glass handle: the other has a plastic body and screw cap meaning it is easy to transport. At the end of the barrel, is a black resin piston knob, separated from the Auroloide by another chrome ring. According to Joan Evans’ book, the notepaper was remarkably good value and was an immediate success.

This is a 1970’s model with a wonderful soft broad stubby nib, an ebonite feed and a large grey ink window unlike the current models. I found a branch of Paperchase, and was drawn to an enticing and colourful display of new notebooks. The pen does appear short but I think that, to some extent at least, this is an optical illusion, caused by the coloured Auroloide being sandwiched between a very long black section and black piston knob. Thanks as always to the organisers and vendors and fellow visitors who make these events so enjoyable. In other news, I am very much enjoying my latest gadget, namely the Puluz 23cm mini-lightbox that I reviewed in my last post.In the Aurora, with its large ink window, a reserve seems a bit unnecessary as you are unlikely to get caught out with no ink when you have an ink window. Interestingly, the pages are about 7″ wide by 10″ long, making the book a handy compromise between the usual A5 and A4 sizes:- Agenzio notebook in blue, sandwiched between A4 and A5 notebooks. Alternatively you may wrap the whole section in several layers of paper and give it a few deft shakes to get the water out by centrifugal force (pro tip learned from Brad of the Pen Addict).