After Mass, we passed by HMR. The self-styled “surplus haus” boasted banners in summer colors, and streamers with huge “70% off” headlines in watermelon red. HMR usually has computers, audio and video equipment, legacy parts and supplies (when was the last time you saw dot-matrix printer paper, or 128 MB thumb drives?), and furniture. The [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pen case’
HMR and the joy of surplus.
Posted in Fountain Pen, tagged HMR, MontBlanc, Pelikan, pen case on April 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Cheap and Cheery!
Posted in Fountain Pen, tagged cheery, Fully Booked, mohohon, pen case on January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I noticed a pen friend (hi, rcdiugun!) carrying one of these when we met at Starbucks. When I saw them for sale at Fully Booked in Bonifacio High Street, I couldn’t resist picking up three, even though I already own a 40-pen case.
It says “mohohon” and “Cheery,” and has an absurdly cute cat. It comes [...]
The 40-pen case arrived today.
Posted in Fountain Pen, tagged pen case, Pengallery on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to Pengallery’s ongoing holiday sale, I now have a Conway Stewart 40-pen case. It is a necessity rather than a treat. That I filled all the slots with the pens I was carrying in my handbag, plus had a couple left over, was not totally a shock. It certainly felt like my shoulder was [...]


