Okay. With the rough stuff off my chest, I want to write about an great addition to my collection that I acquired last year. Well, actually… two great additions. But more about that in a minute. It’s a machine that I’d been on the lookout for, for some time. And I have JP Huard and…
About an hour and a half out of Melbourne there’s a small township that is known by the name of Fryerstown. Today, it has a population of 350, which underplays the towns historical significance. In the late 1800’s Fryerstown had a population of 15,000, all of which had flocked to the area during the…
It wasn’t typewriters that had me thinking about this topic, it was sewing. A co-worker was lamenting today’s fashions while nostalgically thinking about their own past. They talked about life back in the 80’s when girls would go to their school formal (something akin to what American’s call ‘The Prom’ in a dress made by…
The little Toyota Echo that I was driving is nothing like the Nissan X-Trail that I used to make my way out into rural south-east Queensland in. It’d been years since I had driven a manual car, let alone one with absolutely no power steering. As I drove past the trucks and utes around the town…
Grettings all. I’ve breifly escaped my job for the moment to make a little bit of a trip up to Queensland. So I’m enjoying a little bit of sun, beaches and typewriters for the time being. I’ve already aquired 2 typewriters. One of which is a model that keeps on being a bit of…
If I can fix a typewriter, surely I can fix a motorcycle No, I haven’t fallen of the face of the earth or shut down my blog. I’ve just been a little bit…. preoccupied of late. In the last 8 months my work has been very fatiguing, as for a number of reasons my shifts have…
Of Typewriters and Telephones. Things have been a little chaotic here at Filthy HQ, and in a lot of ways it has been living up to that very name. Work has been consuming my time of late, and I’ve been keeping contact with friends and family – and much of the typosphere, with intermittent Facebook…
I’ll be frank. After writing over 200 posts for this blog, I have to concede that there’s one thing that really keeps me going with this… typewriter… thing… and contrary to popular belief it isn’t a raging red cordial habit. No. I just really like the gas-bagging. I wouldn’t call myself an extravert, but…
Michael Clemens on the typosphere page recently set a challenge to us typewriter fanatics for typewriter day to “honour your roots“. Well, I don’t think I can do that any better than to talk about a typewriter that has more personal significance to me than any other in my collection. This the typewriter that belonged…
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