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Sleepily refilling a pen
Mar. 31st, 2026 06:08 pmBeen heavily asleep all day - this has been a thing for some days now, after a few more headaches ... - and wake at nearly 6pm and remember I need to refill my daily journalling fountain pen. So still sleepy me then digs out the syringe and ink miser (my ink bottle is nearly empty, so I need to use those things to fill pens with the relevant ink), ink bottle, and the fountain pen. Amazingly I did not scatter ink all over the kitchen sink! Though I'm sure when Martin comes home from weekly shopping he'll find a few tiny spots 😜
Old pic, but it was basically all the same stuff in play today. The purple thing on the right is the ink miser. That I fill with ink using the syringe, and can then fill the pen well. Otherwise the ink level in the bottle is too shallow to fill the pen through the nib as normal.
I favour piston fillers due to my neurological illness causing big hand control problems. Switching to a syringe is not ideal, but it works in this case.
Old pic, but it was basically all the same stuff in play today. The purple thing on the right is the ink miser. That I fill with ink using the syringe, and can then fill the pen well. Otherwise the ink level in the bottle is too shallow to fill the pen through the nib as normal.
I favour piston fillers due to my neurological illness causing big hand control problems. Switching to a syringe is not ideal, but it works in this case.
