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When blackboards went 'green'

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382329) • Rockingham, Australia 9 Feb

I wrote about a teacher from my school years filling her blackboard with marvellous drawings. I was reminded that at some stage our blackboards were all painted green. This was supposed to be easier on the eyes. They always...

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A Favoured Pen

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21492) • London, England 13 May 19

A bit of a throwback in this age of compterised and AI augmented word processing, but when it comes to writing by hand you cannot beat using a fountain pen. There is something about the flow of the ink that seems to positively...

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My love for fountain pens!

Yogafreak @Curlybobby (370) 17 Apr 16

While I love all my pens, my love for fountain pens is just growing by the day. There's something so delicate and beautiful about these things, I can't get over using them. Some pens have designs that have been retained since my...

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Ghostly Adverts

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21492) • London, England 26 Mar 16

While ambling through Stoke Newington, I found this shop with an example of a 'ghostsign'. The shop is a florists, but at one time they repaired 'fount' pens here and were specialists in Waterman pens. There was a stationary...

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What Do You Write With?

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 28 Oct 15

While anything you see here is typed, or rather, word-processed, much of my writing starts life in pen and ink. I feel lost without a pen to hand and most of my pens are straight-forward cheap biros. I lose valuable pens too...

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Which brand of fountain pen do you like?

momiecat @momiecat (997) • United States 7 Jul 08

If you are a collector of fountain pens like me, you may have a favorite brand of fountain pen you like best. I usually like the higher end fountain pens although the Pilot Varsity disposable is not bad for under $10.00 (US...

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Fountain pens - do you still use them?

abroji @abroji (3247) • India 31 May 07

While I was a child and studying at school we used ink filling fountain pens. Then the ball pens gained popularity and fountain pens were virtually forgptten. However I still have a few fountain pens with me. Though I won't use...

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