An unexpected package arrived yesterday with no note and only a partial name on the outside. I’ll reply to the postal address directly, but I also wanted to say thank you here.
Filled with fantastic looking Nataraj and Apsara pencils, I’ll take a wild guess that the package came from a reader of this blog.
Thank you.
An interesting article in the Salina Journal (Salina, Kansas) discusses some of the back to school supply routines in their community. Mechanical pencils, woodcase pencils, and specific brands may be required depending on the school.
Link: Making the list
This is the two hundredth post at pencil talk.
The site is hard to locate in online search engines and directories, but I’m glad that you’ve found it!
A few thoughts about the site:
Some network hardware that connects to the web server was recently replaced, and I expect that the site will experience much less downtime […]
I can’t read much of it, yet it seems to speak very well to many interests of mine.
Red and blue pencils, leadholders, quirky office accessories - they’re all here, and featured prominently.
The magazine is in Japanese, with about 150 glossy pages crammed full of photos of woodcase pencils, mechanical pencils, leadholders, erasers, sharpeners, staplers, hole […]
There have been a few intermittent technical issues with the site the past few days.
I hope they will soon be resolved!
My apologies. Fighting a stubborn cold has delayed pencil talk updates.
Don’t worry, there are a lot more pencils to soon discuss!
A few end of year notes - after four months of the blog being at www.penciltalk.org, redirection from pencils.smoky.ca will be turned off. Please update any old bookmarks or links that you might have.
If there is anything you’d like to see featured at pencil talk, or if you’d like to say hello (other […]
Though it wasn’t planned, pencil talk seems to have taken a brief winter break.
We’ll be back next week.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone.