Okay, another in my series of ill-thought out musings.
At the last count it seems as though approximately 45 bottles of ink have taken up roost in my home. By way of contrast there are only 9 pens. For those who like me are arithmetically challenged, 45 doesn't go into 9.
So, there is this problem. What inks to use in which pens? Seems simple, but you know how it is. Now sooner have you got all your pens inked when the hankering comes on to write something with one of the other inks, the ones not in the pens. Then what do you do? Flush a pen with a near full barrel of ink just to write a few lines in a different colour. What if you have more than one favourite ink for a specific nib? But you want to use all of them?
One way of working the problem would be to have at least equal or more pens than inks...
... hang on a moment! Isn't that what they used to do 'back in the day', as the hoary old saying goes?
I don't know about other people, but for me, even with a relatively few ink types (compared to a Chrissy for instance ) the problem can be thorny.
Sometimes I long for the days of one pen and one ink. For life!
What say you, fountain pen fiends?
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