Fresh ink

I finally got round to buying a new ink bottle; I don't know how long they last (a cursory glance back through my blog doesn't record when I got the last one), but I'm guessing about a year under normal usage. I haven't been writing that much this year owing to extreme slow progress on Arctic Raoul (whose Plot Point 9 rewrite is not going well, but is going again after a fashion).

At the very least they save generating an awful lot of plastic waste from those little plastic ink cartridges, although from that point of view the 'dry' ink in ballpoint pens, being far more concentrated, is a lot less wasteful.
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