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Ink Clouds

Ink clouds in the water while cleaning a fountain pen

Since moving house in late spring, there are a number of things that I still can't locate. They are either in one of the yet-unpacked boxes, or I've put them somewhere and lost track of them.

For some weeks now, I was looking for my bottle of super-duper document ink for one of my fountain pens. It's a "document" ink, which means it won't fade in the light, it's waterproof on the paper and other such nice attributes. But it's also a bit scary, because clogging up a fountain pen might be fatal. Regular cleaning is advisable.

Now for weeks I was sure I had unpacked this little bottle and placed it somewhere, probably separate from other things, and probably out of the light. I had the image of me placing it somewhere almost in my mind. Except, today when unpacking a few more small boxes, I found it. There seems to have been some cloudy images in my mind.

So it was time to clean the fountain pen, to get it ready to be refilled. One thing I really like about that is the ink clouds you get in the water when you repeatedly pump water in and out of the fountain pen. I tried to snap some pictures, but I would have needed a third hand. From a few not very impressive fotos, this was the best one.