February 2013 archive

A Rainbow, and a Large Damp Bird

Thanks in part to the recent bonanza of inks and also to a few minutes of spare time, I have arranged some pages on which ink colours may be compared without flipping from one manufacture’s page to another.  Rather more exciting news is the addition of a page for the Pelikan Souverän line of pens. …

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Undue Excitement

As is very usual in this modern age, improvement caused woe.  In this case, the host of this site performed a necessary upgrade that unsettled the WordPress software the site runs on.  Those looking in from midnight CST or so until about noon will have found an alarming ‘Error establishing a database connection‘ but that’s …

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You’re Soaking In It!

Thanks to a very generous lady donating a veritable ocean of ink samples to me, I have been able to expand the profiles under the Noodler’s and Diamine ink headings, as well as add ink-producers Rohrer & Klingner and de Atramentis.  A different act of generosity, which saw me with the Kaweco Sport of the …

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