In Honour of Talk Like a Pirate Day…
It is a written greeting, so
you’ll have to imagine the talking part. I hope that, like me, you find it
impossible to read 'thar' in a non-pirate accent, and so it will still count as
part of the celebration.
For this blogpost, I have
been trying out and experimenting with a selection of fountain pens and have
taken a few pictures of the results to share with you. All pictures are taken
on my phone camera which is why they don’t quite capture the detail I’d like,
100%. Before today, I hadn’t written with a fountain pen since school (I'm
Jade, and I'm new here). My handwriting
tends to be scribbley, even with the ballpoints, and below is a picture to
compare with the writing done with the fountain pens.
Fountain pens weren’t
scratchy as I expected – actually scratch that, they were just as smooth on the
page as ballpoints are, and the ink soaked into the paper in a way that gave my
letters shape and character which they typically lack. I like ballpoints;
they're convenient, but they're not as fun. The novelty of writing in ink soon
had me swooping letters, dotting I’s and crossing t’s, and thinking up a reason
to write a letter to someone. If only it was Christmas already…
Because I’ve found the
perfect pine green ink (that’s Lamy green). My relations won't know who’s sent
the card until they read the signature… but would they recognise my usual
scrawl through the extra curls and flicks I add to letters as soon as I have a
fountain pen in my hand?
