Lidl Uk Notebooks And Pens

[Beechwood]

Lidl UK are selling a range of notebooks. I have bought them in A6 size, other sizes are available.

 

Specification is

 

• Black, hard back notebooks, made by United Office.
• 240 pages
• Lined FP friendly paper
• Chamois (posh word for cream) paper
• Inside pocket
• Pen holder
• Bookmark ribbon
• I sheet with 117 labels

2 notebooks for £2.50

 

Larger notebooks were around including A4 wirebound and A5 casebound, just one for £2.50

 

 

Also selling Pelikan Twist with 2 cartridges and a dual ended pen with roller bond at one end and an ink eradicator for £2.50. I think the regular price for the Twist is about £7.

 

They also sell a cartridge filled roller ball by Pelikan which I havent used so cannot recommend. The Twist is a joy to use, good fun pen.

 

 

With the brats schoolchildren going back to school soon they will sell out very quickly at this price

 

[JollyCynic]

They had these in France last week, and we grabbed them as soon as we got down here as I'm sure they'll be picked over or sold out by the time we get back to the UK. The journals didn't have dot grid, unfortunately, so I got squared. The wire-bound notebooks seem like different paper than I've used previously, but I didn't bring any to compare with. This stuff shades beautifully, doesn't feather or bleed easily, but I didn't bring sheening inks with me to test if it sheens as well as the Lidl/United Office paper I'm used to. I bought a few of the Twists when they had them last year. They're great pens for that money, but were only available in red or blue.

[Beechwood]

They had these in France last week, and we grabbed them as soon as we got down here as I'm sure they'll be picked over or sold out by the time we get back to the UK. The journals didn't have dot grid, unfortunately, so I got squared. The wire-bound notebooks seem like different paper than I've used previously, but I didn't bring any to compare with. This stuff shades beautifully, doesn't feather or bleed easily, but I didn't bring sheening inks with me to test if it sheens as well as the Lidl/United Office paper I'm used to. I bought a few of the Twists when they had them last year. They're great pens for that money, but were only available in red or blue.

 

 

Same colour mixes on the Twist pens on this offer. These pens write very well and, if nothing else, they make a good starter pen for the younger person. There is a technique on the Twist for loading the cartridge. The pen takes two cartridges and they go in back to back, as opposed to in line. Or you can use the very long Pelikan cartridge.

 

I didnt say in the original OP but the notebooks are Moleskine clones but much better paper quality.

[WarrenB]

I got one of the blank A5 examples for a sketchbook. Can't speak to how the paper reacts with FP ink (yet); but it got christened with a generous slap of black pigment ink from a brush pen, and I was impressed by the lack of bleeding. Showthrough, but no bleeding.

[Beechwood]

I got one of the blank A5 examples for a sketchbook. Can't speak to how the paper reacts with FP ink (yet); but it got christened with a generous slap of black pigment ink from a brush pen, and I was impressed by the lack of bleeding. Showthrough, but no bleeding.

 

 

The paper is good, works very well with no feathering or bleedthrough. There was a previous offer from Lidl about a year ago and the makers, United Office, are a German company and the paper needs to stand up to German schoolchildrens pen use.

 

The botebooks are not as glamourous as you can buy elsewhere, they look as good as Moleskine though and they are well made, and unbeatable value at £1.25 a notebook with 80 gsm on 240 pages.

 

I am embarassed to own up to how many I have in storage. Some people are Brexit stockpiling on Italian tinned tomatoes, with me its notebooks.

Edited August 22, 2019 by Beechwood