Our world offers many standardised options for the cautious and the discerning. Men being men are always game for a little temptation, but there will always be the more practical among us who will prefer predictable picks that are less challenging.

And on good days, they will love you back like a happy, tail-wagging beagle. They are high maintenance, need to be fed ink regularly, need to be washed and cleaned and handled with care. They often leave a ghosting effect at the back of the paper rather like a leaky baby diaper! They can smudge and can leave little puddles of ink pooled at any random part of a sentence. Like formula-fed little babies they often вЂburpвЂ™ while writing which can mess up official documents and cheque books. Pick a fountain pen today, whether a Lamy, Twisbee or a Mont Blanc, pair it with a Sulekha royal blue or sepia and gold Caroube de Chypre or a Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-budo.ДЇountain pens can be demanding and inconsistent like an icy Persian cat they have little regard for their owners, they can leak ink on your new tattersall checked shirt or your expensive houndstooth tweed jacket. Your inks take you on a journey in which there are no reservations, no itineraries and no fixed travel plans, so you can forge your own path.

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