Cool Hobonichi 2022 Covers
Just a quick follow up from my previous post to highlight two covers that have immediately caught my eye and might be worth your hard-earned money if you’re ...
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Hobonichi Techo 2022 Preview Calendar
With August halfway through, it’s that time of year when the preview for the 2022 Hobonichi planner is released. I’ve blogged numerous times before on my obs...
Cleaning House
Part of the reason I haven’t been too productive recently in my writing has been that I’m working my way through my backlog of posts and importing them into ...
Writing Inspiration - 27 Days 27 Stories
With more time on my hands due to being between jobs and having to stay at home due to lockdown restrictions in my country, it’s been a good time for me to s...
100 Days to Offload
One of the things I want to accomplish in 2021 is to write more. and just by luck I stumbled on a rather cool initiative on Mastodon the other day: #100DaysT...
My 2020 Hobonichi Planners
This year I’m trying to buck the trend and get my annual Hobonichi post out way ahead of the new year! So if you’re keen to see what I’ve opted for this year...
My 2019 Hobonichi Planners
2019 is a few weeks old now so it’s a good time for me to post about my latest batch of Hobonichi purchases and give a run-down of how I’m planning to use th...
Long Time No Write
After what seems like an eternity I’m finally getting around to posting again. It’s been a whole year that’s passed since I’ve updated this site. I’ve been f...
My 2018 Hobonichi
2018 will see me opening up my new Hobonichi Techo for a third year after falling in love with it a few years ago. The brand has always provided excellent qu...
Bloggiversary!
Yeah, I know. Bloggiversary is not a real word, but I feel justified in using it to celebrate the fact that this blog has been up and going for just over th...
Hobonichi Weeks 2017 Thoughts
I’ve already written two posts about my experiences with the Hobonichi Techo planner and while I’ve covered both the A6 Original and the A5 Cousin versions, ...
Another Year, Another Hobonichi
Whenever September rolls around I scramble on the first day of the month to be one of the first people to order my Hobonichi Techo for the following year. No...
Hello Old Friend
So as you may have noticed Ive gone and swapped over to WordPress after running Ghost for most of the last year and a bit.
A Look at the Hobonichi Techo
This year I’ve started looking at journalling on a daily basis. The first two years I lived in Japan I actually used a hardcover Moleskine pocket notebook th...
Going Analogue
In a previous post I talked about how I’d discovered the world of Japanese stationery. This time I want to talk about how that new found interest of mine has...
Publish by Day One
Before starting up this blog I’d had a break of about 3 years when I did no writing on the web. My previous blogs all went the way of the dodo and due to my ...
Moving to Octopress
So the first thing you might notice if you’ve been here before is that the site looks vastly different from before. Previously I was running it on an instanc...
My Writing Workflow
One of the things I do most frequently on my laptop is to type out notes and documents. Whether it’s a draft blog post or a few paragraphs of fiction, I’ve e...