Brief status update.

Work has kept me exceedingly busy over the last few days, and will be keeping me busy for the next week or so; hence the absence of other updates this week (until this evening) and likely some gaps next week.

There's been a few changes...

On the pen front:

• I have added a c. 1952 Sheaffer Snorkel "Admiral" in pastel blue to the pen collection. It was expertly restored by Carol & Mike ("The Pen Dragons") who have an ebay store here. It writes excellently for a 50+ year old pen and has a really nice semi-flex vintage nib that varies between a fine and a medium line. I'll be doing a review of it soon.

On the ink front:

• Private Reserve "Copper Burst" has been retired as I have found it not to flow as well as Diamine or Herbin inks; it has been replaced with Diamine Sepia (big thank you to my wife for my new bottle of this one!).
• I've swapped my bottle of Diamine "Syrah" for a bottle of Herbin "Violette Pensée". My wife had decided she didn't like the Herbin one as it was "too purple" and I had decided that the Diamine was too close in colour to the other Diamine red ink I already had (Diamine "Red Dragon"). She likes her new dark red ink and I like my new purple one, so we're both happy!
• A suprise gift from my wife arrived at work today - a bottle of Diamine's "WES Imperial Blue", and what a magnificent blue it is!

I've also got a couple of new blank journals on the way, but they haven't arrived yet.

I've updated my "Pens and Inks" page to reflect these changes and I'll be posting a handwritten note shortly with ink samples... watch this space.

Expect more updates including photos of pens over this weekend.

And finally, I've given the blog a "new look"