Who says you can’t combine your love of stationery with your holiday? Whether exploring the history of paper or discovering the origins of contemporary calligraphy, you’ll be spoilt for choice as you pencil these destinations into your travel bucket list. The Pen Museum Located in the heart of the city’s Jewellery Quarter, the Pen Museum…

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Eco-friendly stationery is a broad category that encompasses recycled and sustainable stationery, along with zero-waste gifts like eco-friendly notebooks that can be fully recycled once they have been used. The term applies to all kinds of green stationery, from eco-friendly pens and pencils, to recycled notebooks and ethical stationery gifts – and different products might…

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A 50-year-old man in Kunshan, eastern China, had two whole ballpoint pens removed from his intestines on 24th April this year, after a CT scan in February showed them lodged in his digestive system. Mr. Wang had swallowed the pens as a bizarre drunken bet when he was just 14 years old – 36 years…

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Imagine being able to write invisibly on any surface, and those written words then automatically transferring to your phone, tablet, laptop or TV. Currently a Kickstarter project, but having already raised well over the amount required to get manufactured, the Phree pen by OTM Technologies will soon be a reality that will be able to…

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About Parkinson’s Disease Parkinson’s disease is unfortunately fairly common; 1 in 500 people suffer with its varied and difficult symptoms, and 127,000 people have been diagnosed with it in the UK alone. There is currently no cure, and so the main focus for patients until this changes is on how the symptoms can best be managed. The…

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We recently wrote about the chocolate pen, and we’ve seen other exciting and unusual pen developments within the past year or so, such as the 3D doodler. Now, though, there is a new pen on the market and it really is unlike any other out there; the unique Electric Paint pen by Bare Conductive. The…

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I recently participated in my first ever online gift exchange and as the theme was ‘Pens & Stationery’ I decided to share my experience with you, fellow stationery lovers, here on our blog! I have known about Reddit’s Gift Exchange for some time, and been rather curious. However, when I saw that one of the…

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With the advent of the 3D pen a few years ago, it’s no real surprise to find that someone has gone and invented a pen that lets you write in one of the best things in the world – chocolate. The pen, designed for children, lets you draw in chocolate when you press a button…

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  Perhaps homework assignments will never be safe again… perhaps all ‘handwritten’ love letters will one day be curated by robots… perhaps we will all have the option to never touch a pen again! It’s hard to say what will come of this, but thanks to Bond, a New York City handwriting service that set…

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Sometimes there’s nothing sadder than seeing a fallen tree, especially one that is over 300 years old. That said, not every fallen tree must decay into the ground, and that’s exactly the philosophy that Lydiard Park in Wiltshire has taken to a tree that fell in last year’s winter storms. The tree, which was believed…

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