funny you mentuon Blondie as they had a song called Call Me
Middle aged Internet addict: night owl/ grasshopper brain /Kpop/Asian music lover. Ballads, crossover, Korean Trot K,J,C. Thai, and Taiwanese dramas + BL/GL . Loves books, planners. stationery and pens . Prone to joking. 💖💜💙 Brighton,UK
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funny you mentuon Blondie as they had a song called Call Me
any idea what country?
but hang on, didn't we turn 60 literally 5 minutes ago? #timeflies
55 days older than me. But always younger in my mind's eye!
collaging/ junk journaling/scrap booking? Rose is a rose is a rose...
💙📚Thank goodness for apps like Storygraph. I just read about a book and fancied reading it, but I now discover I have had it on my kindle since 2016, and I did, in fact, read it in 2016. Saved my money (can't have stuck with me , I have no memory of it!)
The website's about page is full of organisational info. There's no obvious link to the manifesto. I don't want to work that hard.!
I feel like this is a summer style, certainly not for wet British autumn and winter.
I live in Siân Berry's constituency but still know next to nothing about the party except that Caroline Lucas seemed very nice if you saw her on the local bus.
For real
thank goodness for for my A- level in French (1983) 😜
ah but did you/they read it in French, amateur?
P&J
Aargh I love these but just bought a regular Leuchtturm B6 notebook at the weekend (to go with the pocket one I already had) and have now sunk all my money into Japanese Hobonichi planners! I swear notebooks are going to bankrupt me one of these days!
Actually I don't mind it myself. it just amazes me how it can be clear one minute and bushy the next!
haha ,thinking of my balding brother in law actually named Colin, you're not wrong..😜
I saw some on ebay already for silly prices. Resellers are the worst.
Hobonichi sounds like a homeless philosopher.
I was trying to see if there was a high end version - the plaited leather is very Bottega Veneta.!
Relateable-I'm post menopause can almost grow a beard. I 'sort' it and forget about it until I am cleaning bathroom mirrors in very harsh lighting at work and see Father Christmas looking back at me... I'm too scared to get chin waxing or threading -had eyebrows threaded once and it hurt!
If you look at this image with Google Lens (I'm bored -I'm back to work tomorrow!) it appears this style is EVERYWHERE, not just M&S, so some fashion trendmaker thought it was a Good Idea (actually not a hater myself but am old.)
I just always think of this 😭 youtube.com/shorts/KVu_6...
Ha I heard that song as soon as I saw the comment. Hobi is my bias wrecker. He just gets better and better.
A few ideas. I use Diamine Nutcracker but I don't think it's darker. mountainofink.com/blog/brown-ink
reduced to £25 old stock - Masamune Kusano x junaida: Himitsu Stranger
Erm ignore me, I am so full of it! After commenting about A6 I went back and ended up buying a reduced price cover from last year plus book and cover on cover (on top of the A5 ON and a Weeks I panic bought because I loved the design and the site had only 1 left. Just shoot me now!
Goodbye iQIYI (and other suscription services streaming Asian dramas) at least for a few months. Damn you #Hobonichi #P&J
I don't look at it on here. I can still see it if I choose to, but the piece addresses it on a deeper level - beyond just the literal 'For You 'page.
Is anyone on #booktok? Why am I seeing East of Eden by John Steinbeck EVERYWHERE -Is it having a ''moment? 💙📚 haven't read it but my TBR pile is so far beyond a joke right now...
I actually bought an umbrella this week for the first time in years (the wind here usually destroys them)
this piece refers to substack but it could be any form of social media..
so am I- my wallet wishes it wasn't so!
I managed to get it, and the 'hippo' book from the library-I love this sort of thing but there are so many of them that I just can't buy them all.
I also was rather fond of Keith Floyd but the only gif I found was of his hand pouring what looked like an entire bottle of wine into a pan of stew..lol..
Me trying to fit all the books in before the school term starts and I'm back to full time work 😭
OK random 💙📚 post. What to read first? Titles in ALT text. Might not get to any today but keep going back and forth as I'm back to work in a few days and running out of free reading time😂
love it!
all 3 sizes..duh..still tired from staying up till 3am!
I love the Hana cover-I just can't make a case for A6-I tried all 2 sizes this year and it was a waste of money. Got the Weeks though, after swearing I'd only get an A5 HON, it just bewitched me!
they say it's the Planner geek's Planner www.gentlemanstationer.com/blog/2019/11...
Dang it I caved. Got the A5 HON at 3am when the drop started. Then this morning I saw the fateful words 'only 1 left in stock' of the Yuichi Inoue- Amenimo Makezu Weeks in the store I use (probably plenty on other sites) and I panicked. I did use Weeks for most of this year but I don't NEED it 😦
If you see this, post a chef Galloping Gourmet -Graham Kerr
writer/planner
I did stay up , more fool me, and got the Little House A5 HON from the UK Journal Shop. I had loyalty points for 10% off .. Not into accessories, have a pencil board I don't use already. Also broke from buying too many books/notebooks lately! What did you choose?
Which camp do you fall into? Me, I'm groggy from staying up till 3am to get my #Hobonichi Can't do the vertical layout of Jibun Techo at all. Hurts my 🧠
Hopefully Little House A5 HON
*leave (please excuse typos- 1.54 am , up late waiting for the Hobonichi planner launch at 3am)
same- comes from sharing a room with 2 siblings in my case unfortunately. I could not elae home fast enough (oldest child).
I just want an A5 HON, first choice,The Little House, second choice the Liberty fabric. I doubt they would sell out from the uk retailer straight away so I could leave it till morning but it's fun to stay up for once
3am for us (UK). Luckliy I'm not at work tomorrow.
going through old Facebook posts I found this... If my mother were still alive she'd say I haven't changed!
Sadly I have heard others tell how they feel unable to journal because of similar experiences on their younger days. My daughter is actually 21 but I never looked at her diary when she was younger. I had siblings that looked at mine.
I saw quite a few with very ornate bodies
Not a holiday here, that was last week, but I have 2 more days off, hurrah!
They are going into a large queue but I will !
Yet again I have been influenced by the Internet and ordered The Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante. My library never has them in order, if at all, and I didn't want to spend the money. But dammit everywhere I turn in the bookish world someone talks about them. Are they THAT good? 💙📚 🖋📚 SPOILERS
Bought my daughter a lockable journal, like I had as a teenager. She has some "stuff" going on she might want to vent about. Takes me back to being 15 and hiding my diary from my mum. Hope she likes it. www.rogerlaborde.com/products/asd...
After the (uninteresting) saga of my lost TWSBI fountain pen lid last week, this is one I'd better not lose! ( Hongdian A24 Dragon Year pen; I'm a Dragon in Chinese astrology ( born 1964) and I love this stuff)
I prefer to call them desctiptive. As someone said in this Reddit thread, Writer's Blood sounds so much better than blackish -red www.reddit.com/r/fountainpe...
I wish I had stopped at three- I just can't explain the allure of notebooks, but f you know, you know!
uh oh 😭
just fell asleep watching Promise of the Soul ep 11- will have to go back to it later!
I feel sure I bought it there back in the day, but I hadn't heard of this- www.gayinthe80s.com/2019/04/1986...
I just bought The Book of Disquiet. I think I am going to like it 💙📚
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UK people. R.F.Kuang's new book Katabasis is only £11 in TG jones (ex WH Smith) at the moment. Amazon also has it for that price. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
ooh sounds interesting...
I find I do best with fountain pens. As I get older they require less pressure and flow across the page.
just to add this is my personal purchase -I'm not connected with them.
I did read something about this -how schools no longer enforce the tripod grip, and that also a lot of girls who make planner videos have long nails which affects the grip. The whole 'thumb wrap' looks uncomfortable to me. There was a reddit thread.. www.reddit.com/r/explainlik...
Sorry no, I'm in the UK
I'm just getting an A5 HON. I have so many books I use as well but it's the only one I have used every day this year without fail.
Hmm never thought of that .lol
Anyone looking for a trifold leather journal cover in the UK, you might like this. #P&J studiofin.co.uk/shop/p/butte...
Link if anyone's intereste 💙📚 open.substack.com/pub/petya/p/...
It is if you are messy AF..left page says 'I do not need another Hobonichi tomorrow. Too expensive and A6 is too small OK!' I seem quite mad about it, no idea why .😆 Excuse writing and if anyone can actually read it it's boring, don't bother
I love this so much.
How much would you miss the weekly pages. And do you fill the dailies. I found A6 too small but if you journal elsewhere it might be less of an issue.
Shame I never learn from all tha5 experience..lol
Same. I reserve things I see reviewed but then they all come in at once.
Natch! Ooh , showing my age saying that. 😅
I'm currently going through her book , The Book of Alchemy and finding it such a good experience
Ah that ink, love it.😀
Pre-requisite for joining the fountain pen gang (joke)
I absolutely love mine, the format of the A5 Cousin works with my lifestyle. However I feel a lot of it is FOMO . Perceived scarcity drives interest. These things are not cheap but there's a feeling of being in with the ' planner community,' fuelled by social media. I see it but I also love it.
So damn relateable.
Any notebook people here? #P&J. You might like this open.substack.com/pub/jillianh...
open.substack.com/pub/petya?ut...
Just exploring , hold that thought.
Ah but do they know Towers of London? I even watched a programme about the 'making of'...
The irony of having stacks of books you have no time to read because you looked at a substack post about how to stop scrolling and went down a rabbit hole of people writing about reading...
I had mine tested this week. All clear for diabetes. Just don't ask me my cholesterol results.😡
I haven't had any for over a year. These will keep me going for a long time!
Is it bad that my supermarket order includes 7 different kinds of frozen cheesecake? (Asking for a friend...) 😅😝
I want the camelia one, but I already had 2 new pens this week.😊
Halloween stuff is coming out about now too.
UK supermarket in August. Xmas gets earlier every year.
