Leica M Digitals: The lengthening timeline
Friday the Founteenth: It’s must be Fountain Pen Day
What a pleasant surprise to wake up and find it's International Fountain Pen Day. Passion blooms anew at Macfilos.....
Parker 51: More advances in penmanship
A few weeks ago I described how I had been reunited with the Parker "51", the legendary fountain pen which I had coveted and scrimped and saved for as a callow youth. The pen I bought late last year, almost a perfect replacement for my first 1959 model, has been a true inspiration and has encouraged me to practice writing every day.
Workflow: The humble typewriter through rose-coloured glasses
Notebooks, typewriters, fountain pens: All should by rights be dead, foully killed off by the computer. But they live on.....
On this day in 1945: The ballpoint pen, a revolution in writing, rocked New...
Parker 51: The Leica M3 of the pen world offers a peerless writing experience
The Pre-Tech Office 1: Behind the banking desk in the historic 1960s
Olivetti Lettera 22 at seventy: The typewriter lives on
Kaweco Classic Sport: The fountain pen bug continues to bite
Mike meets the Kaweco Classic Sport fountain pen and slips off down the path to perdition.
London Writing Instrument Show: Enthusiasts, they’re all the same
It doesn't take much to drag Mike to another epicentre of enthusiastic excess. Here he explores the London Writing Instrument Show.
William Hannah’s new pen case and notebook fastener
Back to basics with the MacBook Air
Grammarly: For the writers who think they don’t need it
Yard-O-Led: Beautiful silver propelling pencils with a genuine yard of lead
How much lead is there in a Yard-O-Led propelling pencil. Yes, it's a yard, all squeezed into the Sterling silver barrel....
Lamy Safari: Use this cheap fountain pen to rediscover your handwriting mojo
If you are losing your handwriting talents why not buy a few notebooks and a good fountain pen? The Lamy Safari costs around £15 and you cannot better it for writing experience. It will give you back your handwriting mojo, believes Mike.
