The cover – as proposed on Richard’s blog. Is it a book about typewriters? Or just writing. Yeah, I admit it. I’m a typewriter collector. I intended to stop at 3, but then I found myself rescuing a glass key Royal portable from key choppers and it all went up-hill from there. The more blogs…
Steve and I woke up early again as we were eager to get into Sydney and through the traffic before it became difficult to drive on it’s consistently grid-locked roads. It was a cold morning in Scone, and my car was frosted from cold condensation that had dropped overnight as it hit the nearly 30…
In the last year or so many of the typosphere have noted that there’s been a dramatic increase in the price of typewriters sites like eBay and Etsy. While the market for these machines is growing and typewriters are no longer seen as valueless antiques sitting in the garage, there’s naturally been a steady increase…
bing………….. bing……….. bing………. A hotel for kings and queens, surely! The sweet little display just inside Rob’s front door. Feeeeeeeel the blick love. A bit of Remington 2 love, while you’re at it. A tired eyed yours truly, and the Standard folding with my name on it. (Robs blog) Oh dear… look…
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,…
Now… We’ve all seen this: Typewriter in a park? Just add the word hipster, and you apparently have instant comedy. LOL! Right?! Right… Anyway, that ‘meme’ has been cycling about on the knuckle-dragger interwebs for a while now, and let’s face it – it is pretty insulting to the guy photographed. I mean, like…. seriously……
It is storm season again here in Queensland, and we’ve had storms every night this week so far. This photo above was taken with my phone about 40 minutes ago, as I am waiting for this storm to hit and probably knock out the power for the evening. It won’t be long till I’m back…
It is really easy to think of people on the internet as just… text generators. You can’t hear their voice, see their face, know their smiles or look into their eyes as you talk to them. Often on the internet I have seen horrendous things said and done to other people, which I only came…
Remember this typewriter? If not, you may need to check out this blog. Well, I can reveal that this machine is pretty much guaranteed to have had Italiano keyboard. I came to this conclusion about half an hour after talking to John on the phone. It was something painfully obvious that I had overlooked on the…
The Filthy Platen 