Cast your mind back a year, oh typosphere, and remember what happened on my blog on Valentine’s day 12 months ago. Actually, don’t strain your memory cells too hard… Here’s a recap: Last year, my tortured letter to the Valentine typewriter that I had repaired became item number 4 on google’s image search. As such,…
From my Olivetti Lettera DL. A Typewriter that has survived longer than all of Google’s services, and saw their competitors become giants and fall.
I’ve done a fair bit of blogging lately, but I’ve not done a lot of actual writing. It’s really easy to find the inspiration to blog, but often it is harder to find the personal fortitude to throw a piece of yourself down on paper, and then send it to someone for their personal edification.…
Seem like strong words? It seemed such a simple thing – putting the bearings back into a typewriter carriage. I saw Retro-tech Geneva’s Valentine shooting bearings, and I felt pretty confident that this was a problem that I could manage. And when I say manage, I mean… mange with a bit of effort. I wasn’t…
(Pardon the over use of the term: ‘Before long’ up there, I wasn’t quite paying attention as I typed). The Quiet-riter is perfect for small hands the love smashing keys as hard as possible. Pardon my dishevelled appearance, I’d not seen a comb in 12 hours, bed in 20 and a razor in 2 days.…
I slipped my glasses on this evening, and then clicked my way into Facebook. It’s just one of those things I do a few times a day to feed my addiction to my current casual social contact tool. There was a short two line message from a friend on there. A friend of mine, that…
I spent the evening with getting close and personal to my Remington Quiet-riter, some paper scored from the recycling bin at work, and some pre-stamped envelopes. I’d bought this typewriter just before I moved house, and I hadn’t had any time so far to spend some quality time with it. When I first got it,…
The Filthy Platen 