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Yorkshire Pen Show - Leeds - Sunday 01st December 2024
Mercian posted a topic in Clubs, Meetings and Events
Hi all, as UK Pen Shows (strangely) don't publicise their events here, I have decided to at least give FPN a couple of weeks' notice about this one, which is the final one of 2024. The 2024 Yorkshire Pen Show will be held on Sunday, 01st December. The venue is: The Village Hotel - Leeds North 186 Otley Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS16 5PR Link to the website → https://ukpenshows.co.uk/uk-pen-show-events/yorkshire-pen-show/ Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a list/layout of which vendors will have tables at the show. I've also never been to it, so have no idea what it might be like. If you have been to this show before, and so have some idea of what to expect from/at it, or you are intending to go to it this year, I would greatly appreciate any words of wisdom that you can offer about it. Slàinte, M. -
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I have decided to post the following links here, which for some unknown reason the organisers have never bothered to do. Perhaps they only ‘advertise’ on ‘Social Media’? 🤷♂️ London’s Spring Show has already happened, so it is not mentioned on this list. But the rest of its organisers’ UK Pen Show Events for 2024 are scheduled as follows: Chester - the Northern Pen Show - on April 28th 2024 Birmingham - the ‘Birmingham International Pen Show’ - on 23rd June 2024. N.b. despite its name, this show is held at a conference/events centre in the centre of Birmingham, very close to New Street station & the ‘Grand Central’ shopping centre. Its venue is not anywhere near the West Coast Mainline railway station called ‘Birmingham International’, which is located on the outer eastern edge of the city, surrounded by the M6, the NEC, and Birmingham airport. Newcastle - the Newcastle Pen Show - on 01st September 2024 London - the London Autumn Pen Show - on 13th October 2024 Leeds - the Yorkshire Pen Show - on 01st December 2024 Caveat lector: There is a small chance that you might bump into me at one of these shows. But please don’t let that horrifying possibility put you off from going to them 😉 Slàinte, M.
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Hi all, I am starting this thread today - 2024-10-12 - because the 2024 London Autumn Pen Show is tomorrow - 2024-10-13. My intent in starting the thread is to create a place for members who go to the show to discuss it, and/or show off what they bought there, or to discuss any pens they may have given to restorers/repairers at the London Autumn Show (and what work those pens need). I won't be there - I am currently 'enjoying' a respiratory infection - but, if you are attending, I hope that you have a fantastic time ☺️ Slàinte, M.
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I got this Lamy Studio glossy rose at Appelboom. I had the matte version with a steel nib. The rose tone is a bit too pale. So I decided to go for the glossy one too. Today I got it and it is the exact same rose tone as the matte one, only glossy. The shine somehow makes it better, plus the nib writes beautifully. I am happy I bought it. Looking around the internet I could not find any other information or reviews of this pen, not even at this forum. Also, it wasn't for sale anywhere else but Appelboom. Lamy is one of my favorite fountain pen brands, so since it seems there is no information about this glossy rose Lamy I wanted to share a couple of pictures of them.
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From the album: Handwriting Competition 2023 for Schools local to Mercian
Jack is in Year 6 (age 10-11). His handwriting matches the model quite well, but you will see that it looks as though it has been ‘drawn’ fairly slowly and deliberately. Some of the pupils in Year 5 are already much more confident and more fluid in their handwriting than is Jack. Which is entirely normal! Children develop different motor skills/cognitive skills at different rates! Any given child will progress rapidly at some times, and make only very slow progress at others. Our individual genomes, diets, family circumstances, and the times/intensities with which we suffer illnesses all vary, and each one of these things impacts upon our development. You can be a ‘whizz-kid’ in one term, and a real ‘slow coach’ in the next. Some kids zoom ahead but ‘plateau’ early; others start slow but become sudden ‘late bloomers’. Others develop at a fairly constant rate - but those rates ARE ALL DIFFERENT. Kids can be brilliant at e.g. maths and terrible at languages, or the other way around, or good at only one thing, bad at only one thing, etc. ’One Size’ most definitely DOESN’T ‘fit all’! THIS is why we train people for several years BEFORE we let them teach in our schools. Do you remember how ‘easy’ it was trying to home-school your own child/children during the Covid pandemic lockdown(s)? Now imagine trying to teach several different sets of groups of thirty+ of Other People’s children; children that you don’t love unconditionally! Now imagine trying to do that day, every day, for the whole of your working life.
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2024 Handwriting Competition - Year 6 Scarlett.jpeg
Mercian posted a gallery image in FPN Image Albums
From the album: Handwriting Competition 2023 for Schools local to Mercian
Scarlett’s handwriting has been declared the ‘Winner’ for Year 6 (age 10-11). It is clear and confident, and it has some slight variations from the handwriting model that she was taught. I can’t help noticing that her handwriting is largely ‘printed’, rather than being ‘joined-up’, or ‘cursive’. But does this matter?
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2024 Handwriting Competition - Matilda Year 6.jpeg
Mercian posted a gallery image in FPN Image Albums
From the album: Handwriting Competition 2023 for Schools local to Mercian
Matilda’s handwriting has been awarded the ‘Runner-up’ for Year 6 (age 10-11). Notice how confident and fluid it is, and how her writing has developed with slight variations from the model.
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From the album: Handwriting Competition 2023 for Schools local to Mercian
Kacie has been awarded the ‘Runner-up’ prize for Year 5 (age 9-10). This writing is very upright, and very close to the handwriting model that is being taught. Complete with its glyphs for ‘f’ that look like a mangled ‘g’ or ‘y’.
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2024 Handwriting Competition - Daniel Year 5.jpeg
Mercian posted a gallery image in FPN Image Albums
From the album: Handwriting Competition 2023 for Schools local to Mercian
Daniel is in Year 5 (age 9-10). His handwriting has been ‘Highly Commended’. It is a close match to the handwriting model that is being taught in the schools in my area.
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2024 Handwriting Competition - Bertie (2) Year 5.jpeg
Mercian posted a gallery image in FPN Image Albums
From the album: Handwriting Competition 2023 for Schools local to Mercian
This Bertie (the second person of that name whose writing I have photographed) is in Year 5 (age 9-10). His handwriting is a very close match to the model that he has been taught, and it has been ‘Highly Commended’.
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2024 Handwriting Competition - Amelia Year 5.jpeg
Mercian posted a gallery image in FPN Image Albums
From the album: Handwriting Competition 2023 for Schools local to Mercian
Amelia is in Year 5 (age 9-10). Her handwriting also deviates slightly from the ‘loopiness’ and the joins of the model that she has been taught. But it is perfectly legible and I like it. Good for her!
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2024 Handwriting Competition - Bertie Year 5.jpeg
Mercian posted a gallery image in FPN Image Albums
From the album: Handwriting Competition 2023 for Schools local to Mercian
Bertie is in Year 5 (age 9-10). In this area, this school year is the first one that one spends at ‘Middle School’ (ages 9-13). Middle Schools are, in my opinion, an eminently sensible idea. I don’t think it’s a good idea to try to teach 11-year-olds in the same schools as 16 year old boys and girls. But many of the school districts in this country do house kids in one school from ages 4-11, and then another school from ages 11-18. So maybe I’m wrong. I wanted to show Bertie’s handwriting because it is quite different to the model that he has been taught. Although he does write the model’s flattened-‘f’, he writes his glyphs with very tall ascenders. I am happy to see that ‘deviation’ of this kind is no longer met with a rap across the knuckles with a ruler (or worse).
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2024 Handwriting Competition - Brooklyn-Jane Year 4.jpeg
Mercian posted a gallery image in FPN Image Albums
From the album: Handwriting Competition 2023 for Schools local to Mercian
Brooklyn-Jane is in Year 4 (age 8-9). Her handwriting was ‘Highly Commended’. I like that fact that her glyph for ‘f’ is more like a printed ‘f’ than is the one prescribed by the handwriting model. I wonder whether this adaptation of that glyph was her teacher’s idea, or if Brooklyn-Jane adapted it herself. I ought to go back to the display, and check to see whether or not everyone in this school uses this ‘f’, or if it is only Brooklyn-Jane.
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From the album: Handwriting Competition 2023 for Schools local to Mercian
Ivy is in Year 4 (age 8-9). I note that her handwriting has rather tall ascenders, and that she is not writing the strange glyph for ‘f’, which reminds me at least of a malformed ‘g’.
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From the album: Handwriting Competition 2023 for Schools local to Mercian
Jack’s school has already got its Year 3 (age 7-8) kids using the handwriting model that imposes a glyph for minuscule ‘f’ that doesn’t have an ascender. His handwriting was awarded the accolade for ‘Best in Year 3’ among the schools in my area that took part in the competition.
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From the album: Handwriting Competition 2023 for Schools local to Mercian
Emma is in Year 3 (age 7-8). Her school has not yet introduced the handwriting model with the minuscule ‘f’ with no apparent ascender. Which is a decision that I applaud! The glyph in question looks decidedly weird to my eyes, not least because I can not bring to my mind any printed typeface in any book or magazine or on any sign that I have ever seen in which the glyph for minuscule ‘f’ doesn’t have one. Stupid!
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2024 Handwriting competition - Skyler Year 2.jpeg
Mercian posted a gallery image in FPN Image Albums
From the album: Handwriting Competition 2023 for Schools local to Mercian
Skyler, like Rosie, is already writing in ‘joined-up handwriting’ in Year 2 (age 6-7). My own age cohort was not introduced to this idea until the end of Year 4. Maybe it was just because I was/we were taught in a two-room school in a small village? Had our peers from the town been writing ‘joined-up’ for two years longer than we had? I don’t think so, but I dunno 🤷♂️
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From the album: Handwriting Competition 2023 for Schools local to Mercian
Rosie’s school has already - in Year 2 (age 6-7) - got her joining her letters to make cursive! 😮 My own first encounter with cursive was not until the very end of Year 4! To be fair, back when I was at First School, much of the teaching effort in the earlier years had been concentrated on trying to wean us kids off the traditional Stone technology, and on to that newfangled ‘Bronze’ stuff… 😉
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2024 Handwriting Competition - Emilia Year 2.jpeg
Mercian posted a gallery image in FPN Image Albums
From the album: Handwriting Competition 2023 for Schools local to Mercian
Emilia in Year 2 (age 6-7) is still writing with the basic ‘ball-&-stick’ alphabet.
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