I've been having some technical issues with the blog, just niggling sign-in problems that affect my response to comments. My apologies if I have been slow to acknowledge your comments; I hope I'm caught up now. Be sure that your comments are valued and appreciated!
I'm not really grousing about WordPress. They change and "improve" ways of doing things now and again and I have to puzzle it out but WordPress has been such a benefit over the years. At the beginning of all this I checked out the blog options and I believe I settled on the best method: easy editing and good presentation at a reasonable price (advert over).
While I was poking around in the program trying to solve my difficulties I discovered the blog statistics which I had completely forgotten about and hadn't looked at for years. There was a time, quite a while ago, when I used to pick through the stats, seeing where the referrers came from but the novelty of that soon wore off. I have discovered that the blog is super popular! I am amazed and gratified, not in a big-headed way, more grateful that it serves a purpose.
People visit the blog, often to find out about the old pen that they have acquired. I do hope that they land on a helpful page. Never an expert like Stephen Hull or Andy Russell, I gradually amassed what knowledge I could on a pen, the last post being the most correct one! I have a fairly decent vintage pen library and Google is my friend (sometimes, when it isn't trying to sell me trash or following me around the Web). Often there was nothing to be found for some of the more obscure and short-lived companies and I could do no more than a physical description.
The blog has been the best part of our fourteen or so years fixing old pens. We have always enjoyed writing these little articles, and I had better come clean here. It's about 50/50 between my husband and myself though naturally I have taken all the credit! If he's making braised steak I write that day. If I'm making my famous Mongolian Beef, he writes it. Over the years our styles have blended to become well-nigh indistinguishable.
So long as people are making use of it the blog will never disappear. Even after our time family will keep it available. It is so nice to have done something that has become an appreciated work.
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