Fountain pen?

[rowanwitch]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18071830

Aiming for the most boring thread in history but actually interested in who if any are the fountain pen users here...
I know we use keyboards to go on AB so no daft comments

but in the real world... Just checked my handbag I had four 2 of which I use regularly and I have a bit of a thing for coloured inks sepia and purple are favourites

[China Doll]

There's not much very manly about it...

[rowanwitch]

Has I got a girly pink one I can borrow for the wedding?

[paddywak]

my parents came from an age that considered good penmen ship to be essential and they tought my self and my two sisters to write so that despite the efforts of several teachers we all wrote with a beautifull copperplate style. At the age of twelve I stated at my new grammer school and won the school writting competion and my prize was a Sheaffer fountain pen and Pencil set which I always used up to 2000 when I had a stroke which left me barely able to use a pen but the set still has pride of place on my desk and I still try to use it when writing to family and close friends who can still decipher my scrawl. Incidently we've tried to pass on the skill to the kids in the family and they can make a pretty good job of it when they have to. My niece who was twenty one last week hand wrote every invitation and her future in laws couldn't believe, it especially when I told them All The Family would write like that if they had to write instead of texting it took a demonstation of all the family members present to convince them .

[rowanwitch]

I was tauught italics at school by a teacher who felt it would help as I wrote so fast to get my thoughts down on paper... when the rest of my class were using pencils I used a pen and ink I can stiildo it if I have to... Redman has lovely handwriting as well far better than mine