Rubysasha has written about fountain pens here and asks what your memories of fountain pens are. I’ve written about fountain pens here before and elsewhere.
But I decided to write a little more about them here.
I got my first fountain pen when I was in third class. It was red. I distinctly remember it was red [...]
I can’t measure a second now, and I couldn’t measure a second then. Time is elastic, it goes slowly, it goes quickly. It may be our perception, it may be an as of yet unknown law of physics. We aren’t close to explaining it all yet.
Anything can happen in a second. Anything can not happen [...]
I could set up a Tumblr for this project but frankly, I have an abundance of websites and I’m not down with the young in terms of Tumblr anyway.
Okay.
I picked up a book/notebook called 642 Things To WRite About in Hodges Figgis today. I don’t know what madness possessed me. Maybe it is the five [...]
Having access to the internet lets you know when you’re obsessed about something and when you’re not really obsessed about something. I know from the internet that although most people might look at my desk (4 bottles of ink and several boxes of cartridges to fit different pens in many different colours) (and even then [...]
I have a problem. I have a serious problem. I think it’s called the Shiny problem but it manifests itself in many different aspects of my life and occasionally, it causes operational problems. My current problem is Yarn.
I knit and I crochet but if I’m honest, not that much. There are people turning out 4 [...]
I confess, I own 3 Filofaxes, a personal one which is at my parents, and two A5s. I spent a lot of December trying to work out an attractive way to organise my life, read 1 million organising, journal and lifehacking articles, spent hours talking about this with friends and eventually decided that the reasons [...]
While I was wandering around pinterest the other day, I came across journals where people just drew one picture per day and laid them out in the shape of a box calendar, you know one where you’ve all the boxes to write appointments into and stuff. I liked the idea, and thinking about it yesterday, [...]
Laptop stand in IKEA. It cost about 5 euro and had the impact of raising my keyboard but especially my screen and suddenly using the thing is a whole lot more comfortable. Recommended.
So 2013 is fast approaching and I have realised that in the way most people have to budget money – I am amongst these most people – I also seriously have to budget time.
I used to be very organised. I used to have a lot less to do with my time. In 2011, I started [...]