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Let’s be honest. People have really been struggling to remember how to spell Bleistift.

What was that address again for that pencil blog? Not the good one, the one with the brown/black logo at the top? bliestitf.mmem.de or something like that?

Well, there’s an easy solution to that problem now.

Welcome to pencil.land ^[1]“.land” is one of those fancy new domains. – where smooth pencils are plentiful and scratchy ones are banned. Erasers are dust-free and sharpener produce a perfect point every time.

I don’t intend to rename the blog, but I hope things are easier next time when you struggle to remember how to get here. The tagline under the blog’s name will therefore change. It used to be “don’t like scratchy pencils”, then it was “any old pencil won’t do” ^[2]Think Tina Turner’s Private Dancer, now I’ll have to add pencil land.

Another one bites the dust – well, kind of.

A while ago I wrote about the local pen shop in Preston. Platts closed down its shop on the high street but continues to trade online. The stationery shop Schreibwaren Jäcklein / Hiller Bürobedarf in my old home town, Volkach, suffers a similar fate now. They will close down at the end of this year, but will keep trading online. There’s a closing down sale, all items are 50% off.

I wish them the best of luck for their future.