15-01-2025, 01:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 15-01-2025, 01:49 PM by Oh_hunnihunni.)
I loved Tirau too, when we lived in Taupo. It was a real day out, and great shopping.
I am having fun rediscovering fountain pens and cursive writing - I found the pens in my sorting out and picked up a couple of converters for them this morning at my favourite bespoke stationers shop. And some coloured inks! Which turn out to be very muddy from the nibs as the new ink dissolves leftover pigments that have dried out in the nib feeds. Boy my hand has deteriorated over the years, I will have to put in some serious practice if it is ever to regain legibiliity let alone any kind of skillfulness. Not much point in using cursive if it isn't done well.
It does go rather well with this new found pleasure in typewriters though, so I shall give it some serious effort! I might need one of those old writing exercise books - I wonder if they still make them, you know, the ones with half lines marked in so you could keep inside them! Back to my childhood, in my old age...
I am having fun rediscovering fountain pens and cursive writing - I found the pens in my sorting out and picked up a couple of converters for them this morning at my favourite bespoke stationers shop. And some coloured inks! Which turn out to be very muddy from the nibs as the new ink dissolves leftover pigments that have dried out in the nib feeds. Boy my hand has deteriorated over the years, I will have to put in some serious practice if it is ever to regain legibiliity let alone any kind of skillfulness. Not much point in using cursive if it isn't done well.
It does go rather well with this new found pleasure in typewriters though, so I shall give it some serious effort! I might need one of those old writing exercise books - I wonder if they still make them, you know, the ones with half lines marked in so you could keep inside them! Back to my childhood, in my old age...