Sorry Mike, I was forgetting your blog attracts a very young crowd of admirers, none of whom could possibly be expected to know that a waitress in a Lyons' tea house was known as a "Nippy". It was a pretty apalling play on words anyway. Still, the hound looks very fit and fast - no surprise it took first place!
Not at all, Carl. I think my memory must be skidding, or at least I was being very slow in not working it out, and having to ask (and by land line at that - oh the shame of it- and just when I thought I was beginning to get the hang of modern forms of communication). I think I'd better go back to the dip-in pens of our youth.
Ah, Mike! The merry days of the scriptoria when you made your own ink from egg-white, pigs' blood and charcoal.... dash-it... I can't sign off without drying the ink... now where's my pounce-pot?
How galling Mike! You've sussed me out. I just made up the recipe from the kind of artists' supplies I had available in the dark-ages! Oak eh? or do I mean O K?
Well we don't Nea. Mr. biro's pen was patented in the late 1930, I think, but in the 1940s and 50s school desks still had an inkwell recess in the top right hand corner, and we were using 'dip in' pens in these inkwells up till at least the mid 1950s.
Well we don't Nea. Mr. biro's pen was patented in the late 1930, I think, but in the 1940s and 50s school desks still had an inkwell recess in the top right hand corner, and we were using 'dip in' pens in these inkwells up till at least the mid 1950s.
Darling Nea, there appear to be bits in my memory that pre-date time itself! But in this incarnation your dear PaPa has the right of it. I believe I had my first biro in 1958but we were only allowed to use them in our rough-books(they were a modern foreign fad you see. Best-books were carefully inscribed by fountain pen; dipping pens were too scratchy and splattery for formal work.
I used to be the ink well monitor until I overflowed one of the little pottery inserts whilst it was standing on a pile of work waiting to be marked on the teachers desk!
Thank you Carl. Dear Maggie, you seem to have been a disruptive element in your younger days, what with wellie wanging at a table skittles match, and pouring ink on Sir's desk (or Ma'am's desk I suppose in your case), whilst carrying out the onerous duties of ink monitor. Tut, sister, tut. By the way, did you ever try putting sherbert in a reasonably full inkwell? The results could be very satisfying, if a little messy!!!!!
Ha! At last Mike! You admit to the latent alchymist within! I always new a forge-master and armourer of your abilities must have a smidgin of alchemy in the bones! I never thought I'd live to see your 'outing', you old closet alchymist! Casting sherbert spells upon inkwlls indeed - I'm so proud of you I could bust.
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By Gum! Yon hound looks right nippy an' all! Too quick for a Lyons' Tea House I'll warrant.
Sorry Mike, I was forgetting your blog attracts a very young crowd of admirers, none of whom could possibly be expected to know that a waitress in a Lyons' tea house was known as a "Nippy".
It was a pretty apalling play on words anyway.
Still, the hound looks very fit and fast - no surprise it took first place!
Not at all, Carl. I think my memory must be skidding, or at least I was being very slow in not working it out, and having to ask (and by land line at that - oh the shame of it- and just when I thought I was beginning to get the hang of modern forms of communication). I think I'd better go back to the dip-in pens of our youth.
Ah, Mike! The merry days of the scriptoria when you made your own ink from egg-white, pigs' blood and charcoal.... dash-it... I can't sign off without drying the ink... now where's my pounce-pot?
I suppose I should have said...
Go back to dip-in pens?....
I quill if you quill!
"I quill if you ........" Now you really have blotted your copy book!
P.s ref your recipe for ink, I thought oak gall came into it somewhere????
How galling Mike! You've sussed me out. I just made up the recipe from the kind of artists' supplies I had available in the dark-ages!
Oak eh? or do I mean O K?
Gosh! I'm impressed! I didn't realize you two pre-dated Mr Biro's invention!
Well we don't Nea. Mr. biro's pen was patented in the late 1930, I think, but in the 1940s and 50s school desks still had an inkwell recess in the top right hand corner, and we were using 'dip in' pens in these inkwells up till at least the mid 1950s.
Well we don't Nea. Mr. biro's pen was patented in the late 1930, I think, but in the 1940s and 50s school desks still had an inkwell recess in the top right hand corner, and we were using 'dip in' pens in these inkwells up till at least the mid 1950s.
Darling Nea,
there appear to be bits in my memory that pre-date time itself! But in this incarnation your dear PaPa has the right of it. I believe I had my first biro in 1958but we were only allowed to use them in our rough-books(they were a modern foreign fad you see. Best-books were carefully inscribed by fountain pen; dipping pens were too scratchy and splattery for formal work.
I used to be the ink well monitor until I overflowed one of the little pottery inserts whilst it was standing on a pile of work waiting to be marked on the teachers desk!
Thank you Carl.
Dear Maggie, you seem to have been a disruptive element in your younger days, what with wellie wanging at a table skittles match, and pouring ink on Sir's desk (or Ma'am's desk I suppose in your case), whilst carrying out the onerous duties of ink monitor. Tut, sister, tut.
By the way, did you ever try putting sherbert in a reasonably full inkwell? The results could be very satisfying, if a little messy!!!!!
Warm regards, Mike.
Ha!
At last Mike!
You admit to the latent alchymist within! I always new a forge-master and armourer of your abilities must have a smidgin of alchemy in the bones!
I never thought I'd live to see your 'outing', you old closet alchymist!
Casting sherbert spells upon inkwlls indeed - I'm so proud of you I could bust.
Very elegant he looks too:)
I remember the Nippy.
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