Count Steer wrote: Thu Mar 13, 2025 11:40 am
Purchased for me, as a gift, which is doubleplus good - a Uni Kuru Toga 'Roulette' mechanical pencil. (From Cult Pens who I can recommend heartily ).
The leads supplied with it are excellent, the little rubber in the top is like magic and the lead rotates automatically to keep it sharp, hence 'Roulette'.
Count Steer wrote: Thu Mar 13, 2025 11:40 am
Purchased for me, as a gift, which is doubleplus good - a Uni Kuru Toga 'Roulette' mechanical pencil. (From Cult Pens who I can recommend heartily ).
The leads supplied with it are excellent, the little rubber in the top is like magic and the lead rotates automatically to keep it sharp, hence 'Roulette'.
Count Steer wrote: Thu Mar 13, 2025 11:40 am
Purchased for me, as a gift, which is doubleplus good - a Uni Kuru Toga 'Roulette' mechanical pencil. (From Cult Pens who I can recommend heartily ).
The leads supplied with it are excellent, the little rubber in the top is like magic and the lead rotates automatically to keep it sharp, hence 'Roulette'.
I like that. I have a few mechanical pencils, the 0.5 mm leaded ones are ideal for use with an Incra rule (I have an Incra centering rule*) which has 0.5mm holes all over it.
Not sure I like the £17 and it'd probably be more expensive here if it's even available. I'll have a look.
Count Steer wrote: Thu Mar 13, 2025 11:40 am
Purchased for me, as a gift, which is doubleplus good - a Uni Kuru Toga 'Roulette' mechanical pencil. (From Cult Pens who I can recommend heartily ).
The leads supplied with it are excellent, the little rubber in the top is like magic and the lead rotates automatically to keep it sharp, hence 'Roulette'.
I like that. I have a few mechanical pencils, the 0.5 mm leaded ones are ideal for use with an Incra rule (I have an Incra centering rule*) which has 0.5mm holes all over it.
Not sure I like the £17 and it'd probably be more expensive here if it's even available. I'll have a look.
Count Steer wrote: Thu Mar 13, 2025 11:40 am
Purchased for me, as a gift, which is doubleplus good - a Uni Kuru Toga 'Roulette' mechanical pencil. (From Cult Pens who I can recommend heartily ).
The leads supplied with it are excellent, the little rubber in the top is like magic and the lead rotates automatically to keep it sharp, hence 'Roulette'.
I like that. I have a few mechanical pencils, the 0.5 mm leaded ones are ideal for use with an Incra rule (I have an Incra centering rule*) which has 0.5mm holes all over it.
Not sure I like the £17 and it'd probably be more expensive here if it's even available. I'll have a look.
<£10 on UK Amazon. Happy to acquire and send inc some spare leads (they seem better than the Rotring leads - I have a few Rotring Tiki pencils) to Turkey if you can't get one there.
Count Steer wrote: Thu Mar 13, 2025 11:40 am
Purchased for me, as a gift, which is doubleplus good - a Uni Kuru Toga 'Roulette' mechanical pencil. (From Cult Pens who I can recommend heartily ).
The leads supplied with it are excellent, the little rubber in the top is like magic and the lead rotates automatically to keep it sharp, hence 'Roulette'.
I like that. I have a few mechanical pencils, the 0.5 mm leaded ones are ideal for use with an Incra rule (I have an Incra centering rule*) which has 0.5mm holes all over it.
Not sure I like the £17 and it'd probably be more expensive here if it's even available. I'll have a look.
<£10 on UK Amazon. Happy to acquire and send inc some spare leads (they seem better than the Rotring leads - I have a few Rotring Tiki pencils) to Turkey if you can't get one there.
Thanks CS, that's very generous of you but loads of people go to UK from here throughout the year and I often buy stuff, have it sent to their UK address and they bring them back for me. I restrict it to small, light items.
I'm currently using Scrikss pencils. They're reasonably well made with metal bodies and last quite well; best, reasonably priced ones I could find. Leads here are shite though!
I can sometimes be an impulse buyer for stuff like this!
It's got a 13th gen Core cpu, so it's two years old, but it's got a full metal body and a better than HD screen (which is an important thing for me).
I also signed up for a discountsforcarers.com account, which is free and you don't have to be a carer (go figure), they gave me a 10% discount code for Curry's laptops, so it's only cost me £404.
Audiolab HiFi separates streaming box for my office. Saw one on eBay which was going cheap with not much time left, got it for £51. Seems like I've missed something, they're normally £2-300, triple checked but can't see a problem
Some remarkably plush shit tickets. Bought the Charmin in the blue bag instead of the red. 1/2in wider, softer, stronger & for some reason have a wavy serration to separate the shit tickets. Not sure what that accomplishes exactly.. but wiping the exhaust is now much more luxurious & no risk of unexpected butt finger. Will buy again.
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 1:31 pm
Audiolab HiFi separates streaming box for my office. Saw one on eBay which was going cheap with not much time left, got it for £51. Seems like I've missed something, they're normally £2-300, triple checked but can't see a problem
Well. Picked it up today, all seems to work!
It's now living on the shelf under my office desk, plugged into a little 50W Cambridge Audio amp and some equally cheap eBay found Celestion book shelf speakers.
Hardly the last word in Audiophile, but a million times better than the laptop-headphone-jack-into-amp I had before. I always forget how much better real HiFi sounds.
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