Inkstains

Among the hazards of writing in the small hours: dropping permanent ink on your pillow :-p

(The pillowcase wanted washing anyway, but that mark is never going to come out despite my immediate scrubbing: like Nancy in The Picts and the Martyrs, I shall have to pretend it is a drop of blood gone black :-D )

Interestingly the mould did pretty much come out, which is the difference between organic and inorganic stains...

(Incidentally, after washing my fingerless gloves to little avail it eventually dawned on me that the mysterious reddish brown stains on the thumbs and palms were in fact the result of walking around out of doors handling the leather binding of my current notebook -- which is evidently dyed that rich brown colour, and apparently not completely colourfast!)