De Atramentis Sherlock Holmes

[inkstainedruth]

What? She fed your cat her own cat??

 

Sorry, that just one of those little idiosyncrasies that got lost in translation. Parkette meant that the nice Scottish lady fed BOTH MacTiddles and the interloper, er, two-timing cat.

My parents had a cat that actually didn't belong to them. But from the time "Baby" (we don't know what his *real* name was) was a kitten, he would come around to our house. He'd be waiting when they'd open the curtains for the sliding glass door to the back deck from the dining room. And that was when he wasn't LITERALLY hanging from the kitchen window sill (also on the wall next to the deck) looking in.... And he would sit by my mother at dinner and put his foot up (the way a dog does for "shaking hands") so she'd feed him stuff from off her plate (he once ate 20 green beans in a row). And then around 11 PM, she'd say "Baby! What are you still doing here? You don't live here! Go home!" and they'd let him out till the next morning.

We don't know what his *real* owners thought he did all day (they lived diagonally behind us). And my mother used to wonder what the woman who bought the house after my dad retired thought when she got up and he'd be patiently waiting to be let in (or, impatiently, if he was hanging from the kitchen window...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[DrDebG]

Great review, Vis.

 

I disagree with you all. It is quite interesting and not the least be dull to me. I find this color highly mysterious and quite interesting, much in the same way that Holmes might have.

 

One must remember that Holmes lived in the mysterious, foggy world, captured in the shading of this ink. And we mustn't forget how Holmes and Moriarty fell to their deaths over the raging falls suggesting the deeper, clear blue of water. Both of these would suggest a mysterious blue which DA has reproduced for our pleasure here.

 

No, I don't work for DA, but I love their ink.

 

This is one ink that I do not own . . . yet. It is on my list.

[Tas]

This one regularly comes and goes from my wish list . . . It's back on again.

[DrDebG]

How does this compare to Pilot Iroshizuku Shin-Kai?

[jmccarty3]

SH is more of a dark blue, while Shin-kai is a less saturated blue-grey, especially after it dries.

[DrDebG]

SH is more of a dark blue, while Shin-kai is a less saturated blue-grey, especially after it dries.

 

Thank you! I may just have to get some of this and try it out!

[namrehsnoom]

Great review, Vis.

 

I disagree with you all. It is quite interesting and not the least be dull to me. I find this color highly mysterious and quite interesting, much in the same way that Holmes might have.

This is one ink that I do not own . . . yet. It is on my list.

 

+1

I totally agree that this is a wonderful blue. I like the faded, pale look and the grey that’s shining through. A very interesting blue. Now also on my 2018 list.

[John B]

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

[jmccarty3]

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

 

Particularly appropriate for the Christmas season.

[hbraerae]

I truly expected something that pops a little more for the name. How unflattering.