Rob Masters

 A little while ago I announced that I'd finished " Scout and Shaman". Then a voice spoke to me, and I am finding that I am committing Sequel. So say 'Hi' to Joyful Finder, a descendent of the characters in the original story. I hope you enjoy " Shaman Scout ".

 I am a huge fan of ink rollers - that magical hybrid of rollerball and fountain pen. Sadly, hardly anyone makes them - Herbin have one, Traveller have one, and that is about it. Kaweco used   to have one in their wonderful Sport line, but it has been out of production for at least 10 years.  Sadly, one of the problems with them is that the rollers do wear out, and one of my Sports finally died. A lot of research found ... nothing. Not a single person had ever detailed how to fix one - but plenty of people were talking about replacing nibs.  The nib sections are a friction fit - so you just pull them out. So I tried that with my recently deceased ink roller. "Pop!" it went and came right out. So now I had an empty section.  A while back, I purchased a supply of Schmidt PRS ink roller heads, to go into a 3d printed body I had found. So I figured, why not give it a ... "Click"! Huh. It looks like new. So I a stuck in a cartridge, and it all works! So there you go....

On the night of New Year's Eve 2024 we (myself, Leece , and her mum) saw in the New Year by hosting a star party for family and friends. To make it as accessible as possible, we found a park in Como that is almost completely dark, despite being only a couple of kilometres from the CBD. Adjacent to this park is the Como Croquet Club, so we hired their clubhouse as a base of operations. Two days before, we got a panicked message from the club, asking if their members could have a gathering of their own - which was fine with us, as long as they did not want to turn on the field lights. So we had twenty odd people turn up, along with about the same number of Croquet Club members. As it turns out, the son of one of my workmates played in high school, and got his family into playing a game, much to the delight of the club members. Sun by Rob We started proceedings with a couple of shots of the sun and the current sunspots (Me: "This is what it looks like right now!" 16yo daught...