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From an email received today:
In our previous newsletter we advertised that all the MegaSceneryEarth v3 titles we now have on the store (52 products) are discounted by 40% until the end of January. This sale is current and coorect,

Sad, isn't it? A bit off topic...I've been told that kids today here in the US are not taught penmanship in school. I used to have beautiful penmanship...at least until these infernal computers came along.

Brian

Brian, I would agree, and they do say that handwriting ( or penmanship if you prefer ) is on the decline, due to people typing emails instead of writing letters on paper, and so on.

However, in Cambridge, there is a very posh shopping centre called the Grand Arcade ( upmarket outlets such Apple, Tesla cars, jewellers, fashion shops etc ). The rental for each unit must be astronomical but there, on the ground floor where the rents are probably highest of all, is a branch of The Pen Shop. And pens are just about all it sells apart from a small range of leather-bound journals, Filofaxes and the odd gift item.

Never been in the place ( Bic ballpoint from Smiths suffices for me ), and when I pass by, there's never more than one or two customers. I always wonder how it keeps going, given the unit rents, what they sell, and this general decline in handwriting. They've been there since the Grand Arcade opened in 2007 and while other tennants have come and gone, there they still are, year after year, just selling pens.

Just visited The Pen Shop's website. That's definitely a pricey shop. Oh, here's a nice little pen.
https://www.penshop.co.uk/pens/ball-pen ... lpoint-pen
'Pen Engraving Available' it says. I'd have them engrave on the pen "£300.00! Are You Mad?".

Brian

I do not.

Just my two Pennies worth.

FlyTexas wrote: ↑

08 Jan 2018, 15:26

Just visited The Pen Shop's website. That's definitely a pricey shop. Oh, here's a nice little pen.
https://www.penshop.co.uk/pens/ball-pen ... lpoint-pen
'Pen Engraving Available' it says. I'd have them engrave on the pen "£300.00! Are You Mad?".

Brian

Chump change..
A Aurora Diamante fountain pen can fetch as much as $1.47 Million.

And at that price.. Had better fetch my slippers.

airboatr wrote: ↑

08 Jan 2018, 15:33

FlyTexas wrote: ↑

08 Jan 2018, 15:26

Just visited The Pen Shop's website. That's definitely a pricey shop. Oh, here's a nice little pen.
https://www.penshop.co.uk/pens/ball-pen ... lpoint-pen
'Pen Engraving Available' it says. I'd have them engrave on the pen "£300.00! Are You Mad?".

Brian

Chump change..
A Aurora Diamante fountain pen can fetch as much as $1.47 Million.

And at that price.. Had better fetch my slippers.

Does it come with ink?

Brian

FlyTexas wrote: ↑

08 Jan 2018, 15:26

Does it come with ink?

Brian

For a specified sum.. ..

airboatr wrote: ↑

08 Jan 2018, 20:40

FlyTexas wrote: ↑

08 Jan 2018, 15:26

Does it come with ink?

Brian

For a specified sum.. ..

I bet.

Brian

Joe....you're writing with slippers? No wonder I have trouble reading!