Well, it was my birthday yesterday - 24th March in the Northern latitudes... and that got me thinking. I'll have to check my actual time of birth because if it's after 12 noon then technically in New Zealand my birthday should fall on the 25th. What do you think of that? Has anyone else moved time zones such that their birthday should be locally different form their place of birth?
Anyway, my birthday is not normally celebrated - there are no cards, presents, or usually even any well-wishes (most people are unaware of the date), and that's okay as it's not exactly an auspicious day.
This year I decided to treat myself a little. So I ordered up a Ranga 4NC in blue ripple ebonite.
It's the one in the middle.
And then, on the 23rd Franklin Christoph had one of their 'online pen shows'. As usual, the timing of this was hugely disadvantageous to those of us this far away geographically, but as I was working from home that day (fortuitously as it happens) I was able to take a moment to look in. To be honest, I actually got up at 4am for the first showing in the hope that they would have a Model 20 in an interesting (to me) colourway... they didn't... but a pocket Model 66 did catch my eye and so I jumped in on the 3pm showing. Luckily I got in ahead of the crowd, and I took an enormous risk in getting it with a Nagahara needlepoint nib - really I wanted to buy a couple of other nibs (a Nagahara broad CI and and a medium S.I.G.), but that will have to wait until I can get a model 20.
Here it is:
Both pens are inbound, and no doubt the FC will get here quicker as they usually employ FedEx.
So, happy birthday to me!
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