Snippets: Schon, John Garnham, Pebble, GLP, Cross

It's been a quiet month here on the blog. I haven't posted anything for ten days, which is a long spell for me. But I do want to shout about a few things, so it's time for a Snippets. Bye to Instagram Thanks to those of you who took the time to email me to …

What the Sport should have been: the Kaweco Supra Fireblue

It’s almost sacrilege to say it, because the Kaweco Sport is a true icon, but the Supra I have in front of me here is in many respects a better pen, and in my opinion probably the best competitor to the Schon P6 if you’re looking for a metal pocket pen. Where the Supra shines …

The results are in: the great fountain pen survey, part 1

Late last year I set out to survey the fountain pen community about all aspects of their relationship with fountain pens. This post starts to dig in to the incredibly rich data set that resulted. I'm excited about this data, because as far as I know it's the only large-scale, quantitative survey of fountain pen …

Behind the pen: Joe Kershaw of the Online Pen Company

It’s important to break out of your Instagram echo chamber every now and again. That was my key takeaway from interviewing Joe Kershaw, who runs the Online Pen Company (you may remember they provided the Staedtler Lignum for my recent review). Kershaw is not what you might expect a pen company owner to be like. …

Binge and purge: reaching equilibrium with sets of five

Living with less I am not a minimalist. But I have minimalist aspirations; on a good day, even minimalist tendencies. I know that I feel happier when my space and my mind aren't so encumbered by stuff, and I have built up my mental muscles to recognise when I'm hanging on to an object but …