Spirit of Dance
In developing a companion website dedicated to love of life and the joys of sharing it, I sifted thousands of...
Steady as she goes
When I created a category dedicated to the accoutrements of writing and drawing, I had in mind pens and their...
The loss of a journal
How many notebooks, journals or letters have been swept away by circumstance, carrying the minutiae of memory with them? Leigh...
Keats on hand-writing
Keats' letters are treasures - he is every bit as fine a correspondent as he is a poet. Here he...
Of pens and pencils
Listening time: under 3 minutes.
This is a charming account of negotiating communist bureaucracy at the height of...
Of berries and wine
Having a love of ink, the variety of its hues and the names people give them, and the chunky inventive...
Well, well, well – dragons amid clouds
On a joyous day walking around the Art Institute in Chicago, I spotted this beautiful, pristine celadon writing box with...
Handwriting as clothing
Those were the days, when you could flaunt and vaunt through the thrill of the quill.
The investment of...
Handwriting as clothing II
Stansted Park is an elegant house set in 1,700 acres of park and woodland in the south of England....
Heroic journals
All laud to Labaume, going to such heroic lengths to write his journal. I will have to introduce this makeshift...
Roughing out poems
Hand-written notes and journals have a magic to them. Durrell is a favourite poet and his house in Greece was as...
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