Noodler's Brexit Royal Blue

[TheFountainPenOfYouth]

Oh, and as promised -- this is a scan (cropped down for size limits) of what Brexit looks like on not terribly good, absorbent, Piccadilly sketchbook paper; the color seemed to be pretty close without doing any major color tweaking.

This has a lot of blue in it, but is *definitely* still in the lavender/purple family. Which is why I was *so* surprised to have the ink be called "Brexit Royal Blue"....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Hi Ruth! Is that paper at least 90gsm?

Edited January 20, 2018 by TheFountainPenOfYouth

[Jerome Tarshis]

My natural father was born in Auchinleck, Ayrshire where it is pronounced Auchinleck.

 

I am delighted to read this. I have been at least partially misled in this matter by some such reference work as Debrett's Good Form. When I was younger I was comparably delighted to read that a distant connection of Samuel Pepys, a woman of the twentieth century, had been quoted as saying that nobody in the family pronounces the name "Peeps," but rather "PEP-iss," as its spelling might suggest.

 

Things do vary, however. There are Beaulieus who have come to the pronunciation Bewley, with or without the spelling, but a friend of mine is soon to break bread with the London blogger Christopher Bellew, whose family name also used to be Beaulieu.

[inkstainedruth]

 

Hi Ruth! Is that paper at least 90gsm?

 

Dunno. It's one of the cheap Piccadilly spiral top sketch pads from Barnes & Noble, and relatively crappy and absorbent paper. Okay, just checked their website (and the current pad) and it's 120 gsm acid free paper. Or at least claims to be.

I have noticed that the paper on the older ones seem to not be as white as in the current one. But the review I did for myself of Brexit is in the newest book. And my bottle of Brexit is definitely NOT royal blue -- it's lavender.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[mackthepen]

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Edited January 21, 2018 by mackthepen

[mackthepen]

My natural father was born in Auchinleck, Ayrshire where it is pronounced Auchinleck

 

Indeed it is - the pronunciation is straightforward (excepting the difference between the ch and the ck), unlike the nearby Glenzier - pronounced Glinger

[Jerome Tarshis]

My natural father was born in Auchinleck, Ayrshire where it is pronounced Auchinleck.

 

Not that I wish to offend the Guardians of Good Order by further off-topic postings, but: The operative word in the above sentence is "is." In time past, people, at least some people, said "Affleck." In Ayrshire, at least. The Angus Afflecks are a slightly different story.

 

And although I am prepared to believe there isn't, in 2018, a single Pepys who says "Peeps," that needn't apply to the well-known naval functionary's lifetime.