Has Anyone Heard Of Henry Simpole?

[Chris Chalmers]

44.1ºC here yesterday. All offers of snow and ice gladly accepted. Would even pay shipping, as long as it's not to ship an iceberg. Fortunately, down our end of the continent, it's usually a hot dry heat, which I can tolerate: it's when it gets in the mid-20s to 30s that it is humid which I find hard to cope with. And when it is so so hot, no-one expects you to do anything, so one can just play inside!

 

pen looks glorious! Is that Herbin cyclamen on the nib? Hope you two didn't do any rash buying yesterday because it was hot! I would never do something like that.... the more I look at that pen, the more beautiful it becomes. Henry really is a master at this craft/art.

 

Wow Miranda! That isn't a temperature reading - it's more like a pen price!!! We watched the news tonight and it was horrendous in Melbourne last night - 37C at midnight............hope your aircon was on high!!!

As to the ink in Soki's Roses.............she will have to tell you - my brain is dead and needing to go to bed!

Has it cooled off now, we had a cold front come through about 4pm and it is now very pleasant.

Take it easy!!!

[Wolverine1]

Folks check out the Pentrace Message Board. Mary B from Conway-Stewart has posted a pic of the new Conway-Stewart pen, of course, with the overlay work done by Henry!!!!

[Ghost Plane]

Thanks Ghost Plane - I love the snow and really cold climates.........which is why Tasmania has to fit the bill for most of the year..........well, not that cold, but nearly some days!

 

How fares the Persian Connection? Flu gone? Pass on healing vibes from me please!

Henry could export snow at the moment - or at least pack pens in it for shipping - what a novelty!

Persian Diversion is still at the exhausted stage as he's having to work while sick. Slept half of Sunday away. Gave him eye drops and my emergency cough drop stash. Suspect it'll be another week before he's nominally functional. At least he's got his mom to spoil him and have hot food ready when he crawls home from work.

 

You can have mine. After frozen fountains, ice floating in people's pools, and snow SOUTH of me in the Orlando area, I'm really ready for the tropics to go back to feeling tropical!

 

Wow! What's going on with the global warming?

 

I used to live in Gainesville, FL, and then in Satellite Beach and Merrit Island, and I don't remember anything like that happening in those good old times...

Pembroke Pines got enough to stick to roofs and porches. Somebody scooped up enough at the Daytona Speedway to make mini snowmen on the hood of their car.

 

More frightening was the video on last night's news showing a kayaker in the intracoastal waterway hitting ice and actually getting stuck around the edges. He said it felt like stiff jello. The fountain in Hemingway Plaza [downtown Jacksonville] froze and someone's pool in Crescent City had blocks of ice floating in it.

 

I blew the O rings in my pool pump trying to keep the pipes from freezing and shudder to think what my electric bill is going to be this month as the heat pump is struggling to keep the house warm when we're in the teens.

[Truffle Finder]

Excuse me but isn't this the web-site where people comment about pens?

Perhaps I've been under a misapprehension!

Truffle Finder.

[Miranda]

44.1ºC here yesterday. All offers of snow and ice gladly accepted. Would even pay shipping, as long as it's not to ship an iceberg. Fortunately, down our end of the continent, it's usually a hot dry heat, which I can tolerate: it's when it gets in the mid-20s to 30s that it is humid which I find hard to cope with. And when it is so so hot, no-one expects you to do anything, so one can just play inside!

 

pen looks glorious! Is that Herbin cyclamen on the nib? Hope you two didn't do any rash buying yesterday because it was hot! I would never do something like that.... the more I look at that pen, the more beautiful it becomes. Henry really is a master at this craft/art.

 

Wow Miranda! That isn't a temperature reading - it's more like a pen price!!! We watched the news tonight and it was horrendous in Melbourne last night - 37C at midnight............hope your aircon was on high!!!

As to the ink in Soki's Roses.............she will have to tell you - my brain is dead and needing to go to bed!

Has it cooled off now, we had a cold front come through about 4pm and it is now very pleasant.

Take it easy!!!

 

 

Excuse me but isn't this the web-site where people comment about pens?

Perhaps I've been under a misapprehension!

Truffle Finder.

 

Don't worry Chris and Soki, this is not the big smoke with its thermal heat trap. It was in the pleasant mid-high twenties last night, and now an acceptable 14ºc

 

The weather is implicitly about pens! I dread to think how my poor little MB146 and Pelikan are after their day on the porch [in the shade at least]. And what about those inks lying around on the tables out there? And are pens like drugs with their 'do not store above 30ºC ' labels'? Will the celluloid, the precious resin melt?

So much to worry about! cheers Miranda

and why am I answering at 4:57am local time?

[RitaCarbon]

Thanks Ghost Plane - I love the snow and really cold climates.........which is why Tasmania has to fit the bill for most of the year..........well, not that cold, but nearly some days!

 

How fares the Persian Connection? Flu gone? Pass on healing vibes from me please!

Henry could export snow at the moment - or at least pack pens in it for shipping - what a novelty!

Persian Diversion is still at the exhausted stage as he's having to work while sick. Slept half of Sunday away. Gave him eye drops and my emergency cough drop stash. Suspect it'll be another week before he's nominally functional. At least he's got his mom to spoil him and have hot food ready when he crawls home from work.

 

You can have mine. After frozen fountains, ice floating in people's pools, and snow SOUTH of me in the Orlando area, I'm really ready for the tropics to go back to feeling tropical!

 

Wow! What's going on with the global warming?

 

I used to live in Gainesville, FL, and then in Satellite Beach and Merrit Island, and I don't remember anything like that happening in those good old times...

Pembroke Pines got enough to stick to roofs and porches. Somebody scooped up enough at the Daytona Speedway to make mini snowmen on the hood of their car.

 

More frightening was the video on last night's news showing a kayaker in the intracoastal waterway hitting ice and actually getting stuck around the edges. He said it felt like stiff jello. The fountain in Hemingway Plaza [downtown Jacksonville] froze and someone's pool in Crescent City had blocks of ice floating in it.

 

I blew the O rings in my pool pump trying to keep the pipes from freezing and shudder to think what my electric bill is going to be this month as the heat pump is struggling to keep the house warm when we're in the teens.

MAMA MIA!

 

Yep, the global warming comes in mysterious ways...

[RitaCarbon]

Excuse me but isn't this the web-site where people comment about pens?

Perhaps I've been under a misapprehension!

Truffle Finder.

 

Okay, it's the same way as with truffles: the pen growth process depends on weather conditions.

 

[Carrie]

Folks check out the Pentrace Message Board. Mary B  from Conway-Stewart has posted a pic of the new Conway-Stewart pen, of course, with  the overlay  work done by Henry!!!!

 

If you mean the Chatsworth, we've already had a couple of topics going about that over in the CS forum.

 

 

 

[fuchsiaprincess]

Miranda,

 

The ink in Roses is my very own Violet mix (translated to mean "no freaking idea what it is!"). Still in bed checking my emails

 

Love,

Soki xx

[Chris Chalmers]

Dear Soki! If you are reading this - breakfast will be crumpets and honey!! coffee too - and then we need to do some playing with pens!!! :meow:

[fuchsiaprincess]

Good morning! I'm up! Crumpets and coffee sound great, thanks! See you in a sec

 

Soki xx

[Truffle Finder]

Hi Chris and Soki,

I do hope you both enjoyed the crumpets and honey!!!

So, what happened about the photographs of the pens you have between the two of you?

It would be great to see them, BTW, in case anyone on this thread is interested, we had more snow today, [i don't have a thermometer] it was very COLD!!!

Any further information about the weather conditions will be gladly provided by the Weather Centre! [That's a different Web-Site, by the way!]

Truffle Finder.

[Chris Chalmers]

Hi Chris and Soki,

I do hope you both enjoyed the crumpets and honey!!!

So, what happened about the photographs of the pens you have between the two of you?

It would be great to see them, BTW, in case anyone on this thread is interested, we had more snow today, [i don't have a thermometer] it was very COLD!!!

Any further information about the weather conditions will be gladly provided by the Weather Centre! [That's a different Web-Site, by the way!]

Truffle Finder.

 

Dear Truffle! Here are the rest of the photos I took the other day..........there will be no more until my poor camera recovers........it got treated badly yesterday while we were out in a very fast boat exploring the wilds of Bruny Island! It is now in line for expert care!

http://dxlab.ky1v.com/zzz/R3.jpg

http://dxlab.ky1v.com/zzz/R4.jpg

http://dxlab.ky1v.com/zzz/R5.jpg

[reprieve]

Very nice photos of a beautiful pen! Is there a story behind The Roses? Did I miss it?

[Chris Chalmers]

Very nice photos of a beautiful pen! Is there a story behind The Roses? Did I miss it?

 

Soki should reply to your question - but in the meantime all I can say is that my photos do not in any way do it justice as it's the most beautiful bespoke pen!!! I'm nor jealous..................much!! I have five of Henry's pens and I am one very happy person to have those - The Roses was a commission and proves that two people got it absolutely right!

[reprieve]

Very nice photos of a beautiful pen! Is there a story behind The Roses? Did I miss it?

 

Soki should reply to your question - but in the meantime all I can say is that my photos do not in any way do it justice as it's the most beautiful bespoke pen!!! I'm nor jealous..................much!! I have five of Henry's pens and I am one very happy person to have those - The Roses was a commission and proves that two people got it absolutely right!

 

The Roses really is one of the most beautiful, elegant pens I've come across.

 

Chris, I've seen the photos you posted of your gorgeous Simpoles! It's simply stunning to see them all together. And I must say that you are a very brave person to use them as eyedroppers! I am lucky enough to have one of the Chatterly Chatsworths in classic green (and I loved it so much that I seem to have bought a second one in pearl white, which hasn't arrived yet :embarrassed_smile:). All I can say is: Henry's work is amazing, and even more so in person!

[Truffle Finder]

Hi Reprieve, it sounds as though you have met Henry, have you?

Truffle Finder.

[reprieve]

Hi Reprieve, it sounds as though you have met Henry, have you?

Truffle Finder.

 

Truffle, no I have not met Henry--I meant that I have one of his pens (a Chatsworth), and it is even more gorgeous in person than in the photos. I would love to meet him some day, though!

Edited January 16, 2010 by reprieve

[Carrie]

I'm envious now, I think the Chatsworth in the white looks wonderful. Hope you'll post some photos when it arrives with you.

[Chris Chalmers]

All my Henry Simpole pens have black bodies, so work well as EDs - if I had the white I wouldn't use it as an ED - and would think twice about any other that could show through too!

 

Of course if Henry only made one pen it would be stunning..........and I'm biased and think every one of his designs are stunning!!! :bunny01: