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    Default Hi from a rainy London

    (I could write that pretty much any day of the year…)

    I have been using fountain pens since I was in primary school (that was how it was in those days) but later became very dissatisfied with the way we had been taught to write. So in my teens I started working from 1950’s books on the italic handwriting I loved. Fast forward a bit from there and everything became electronic with writing hardly seeming to matter.

    Recently I realized that my old pens had disappeared (though I did find a Lamy 1.1mm), but I also found that there is a thriving scene for those who like writing and writing instruments too.

    On to pens: to accompany the old Lamy (which now has a big brother) I have bought a couple of Parker (Duofold, 75) and Pilot (VP, 78G) pens and will soon move on to another letter of the alphabet…

    Nice to know you all!

    Joseph

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    Welcome home. Pull up a stump and set a spell.

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    Default Re: Hi from a rainy London

    Welcome Joseph!

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    Default Re: Hi from a rainy London

    Welcome to you from the Lone Star Planet!
    "Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine

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    Default Re: Hi from a rainy London

    Glad you are among us! Welcome!!

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    Default Re: Hi from a rainy London

    Hi, Joseph H! Welcome from an equally rainy Scotland.
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    It's glorious in Lancashire

    Welcome Joseph!

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    Default Re: Hi from a rainy London

    Welcome. Hope the sun comes out.
    To continue to diminish the place of the handwritten in our lives is to diminish, in a small but real way, our humanity. Philip Hensher

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    Lady Onogaro

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    Default Re: Hi from a rainy London

    Hi Joseph

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    Default Re: Hi from a rainy London

    Hi Joseph! the sun is always there. It is sure as the rain which keep the planet goes on. Well come TO THE INKY PLANET HERE and beware of the INKY FLOOD which is the energy that moves around.

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    Default Re: Hi from a rainy London

    Hi Joseph!
    You could always meet the other London Pen Geeks at our monthly get-together. It's on the first Saturday of the month at noon, downstairs at the Bierschenke.

    We're easily spotted- even the table has inkstains
    Some days, it's hardly worth chewing through the leather straps....

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    Default Re: Hi from a rainy London

    Quote Originally Posted by oldstoat View Post
    Hi Joseph!
    You could always meet the other London Pen Geeks at our monthly get-together. It's on the first Saturday of the month at noon, downstairs at the Bierschenke.

    We're easily spotted- even the table has inkstains
    You beat me to it

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    Welcome.
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