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Next meeting Monday 8th Feb at the Tower Hotel Hawthorn.

Eat at 6:30

Practical start 7:30 (ish)

Sic Transit Gloria

 

"Gloria gets seasick"

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*notes down*

 

Certainly coming to the next one...

 

I'll be away until then, but Peter H is looking to get our paper guy to come through with his promise about a Vintage Paper presentation.

Hope that works.

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First Melbourne Pen Club meeting for 2010 in a couple of weeks, folks...

 

Not even!

 

Monday 8th Jan at the Tower Hotel in Hawthorn at 6:30 (Dinner) and 7:30 (Talk).

 

I have to admit to a lazy way out for this one ;-)

 

Our last meet was Duncan Alexander (Tiger Papers) who brought all sorts of goodies for us to look at and take home to enjoy.

 

He made a subtle offer that i couldn't refuse.

 

So he will be there again (I sed I wuz lazy)

 

But the talk this time is VINTAGE PAPERS

I had no idea there was such a thing until he dropped the hint last time

 

BE THERE!

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Monday 8th Jan at the Tower Hotel in Hawthorn at 6:30 (Dinner) and 7:30 (Talk).

I'm guessin' that's the 8th Feb...

 

Fingers faster than the brain!

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Well that was quite successful (to put it mildly).

New members, nice talk, now a call to the management about the top table for a little more peace and quiet.

 

 

A magic talk from Duncan Alexander of Dragon Papers about Vintage Papers.

I could go on, but the whole thing is mind boggling and it is actually amazing to be able to write on proper paper that is actually designed for fountain pens - or ink in general.

Amazing to think of a single sheet of paper being worth more than some of the very finest pens!

 

Next meeting will be April 10 at the Tower Hotel and I have asked Pam Sutton to give us a talk on the evolution of the mechanical pencil mechanism.

These mechanical pencils have been around for hundreds of years and Pam is a major authority on this, so please let's support her and diarise the date and see if we can top last night's attendance.

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Let's look at the right year, OK

Meeting April 12 it seems not the 10th.

Watch this space.

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Hi Max,

 

It was indeed a very enjoyable meeting, it was so refreshing to see new faces there. Some of Pam's pencils were really pretty (I saw them at the last Melb. Pen Show), and I can't wait to hear what she has to say about them.

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Got this message this morning.

 

We have asked Pam Sutton to talk on mechanical pencil mechanism development over the years.

Second Monday in April = 12th Tower Hotel

 

 

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Sent Today, 01:06 AM

 

Hi Max

I believe we met at the last pen meeting at the Tower Hotel.

It was thoroughly enjoyable.

I hope you are well and hope to be able to come along for the next meeting.

 

kind regards

Jeremy________________________________________________________________________________

 

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

Sigmund Freud

 

(there was a man who obviously never knew fontain pens!)

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Barring a major catastrophe; I'll be there as usual. I saw several of Pam's pencils at the last Melb. Pen Show. They were really pretty!!

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thanks for bringing me over to the topic and the meeting.

Looking forward to it.

My leaky Wall St has been sent off to Italy a month ago, of course has not been received yet but they seem very nice in Italy!!

Next time I'll be sure to bring a pen or two that are in tip-top shape

cheers

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Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

Sigmund Freud

 

(there was a man who obviously never knew fountain pens!)

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