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I’m happy that so many new stationery blogs seem to have started recently – and that more of the general stationery blogs seem to care about the humble pencil, too …but when updating the links on this blog I also noticed that there are so many nice stationery blogs that have left us far too early.

Most missed is Sean’s previous blog Pencils and Music, but it’s nice to see that his blogs Blackwing Pages and Contrapuntalism are still alive and well.

Other blogs that didn’t survive and have either been taken offline or haven’t been updated in quite a while are (in alphabetical order) The Leaky Pen, Pencil Points, Paper Notes In A Digital World, Notebook loves Pen, Pencil Wrap, Notebooktivity, Pencil Reviewer, Fred’s Pencils, Pencil Sharpeners, Pages Made of Paper and Recording Thoughts.

You will be missed (especially the pencil blogs)!

The Motus and two old Faber pencil extenders

 

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The Episodes Lyreco

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Pencil spotting!

This time: Episodes, Season 3, Episode 1.

Episodes is known for the huge number of Staedtler Noris (see Staedtler Noris 120 and The Noris, then and now), but in the latest episode you can also see an Impega / Lyreco pencil, as well as some Stabilo text markers.

 

Episodes (Image © Hat Trick)
Episodes (Image © Hat Trick)

The Lyreco HB (previously: Impega) is quite common in offices around Europe. Lyreco of France is a big distributor of office supplies and many companies buy all their supplies from them. My employer too, so the pencils we get from the stationery cupboard are Chinese made Lyrecos. In case you are interested: their tapes are made in France and their paper is made in Germany.

 

Lexikaliker has a post about the similar looking Lyra Robinson.

I believe that the use of the the screen shot of the Lyreco pencil, taken from episode one of the third season of the TV series Episodes falls under “fair dealing” as described by the UK Copyright service.

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Going up…

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Rotring TikkyYou might remember my blog post about stationery becoming more and more expensive …and  my facebook post about the price of the Rotring Tikky.

Well, I got a shock today when I saw that Tesco now charges £5 for the Tikky. It used to cost £1.99 not that long ago…
When it was £1.99 I actually thought it’s too cheap and people might not value this pen because of the price, but now that it has been cheap for a long time in all major shops I don’t understand this price increase that is completely out of line with inflation, either. I guess I must be difficult to please…

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