Filofax affairs

Having used Filofax pocket books for around fifty years, I bought my last one in March 2010, a purchase noticed at reference 1. A leather affair, which I never used enough for its stiffness to wear off, for it to lie open without being held open.

Five years later, having in the meantime acquired a modern telephone, I was making the new year's resolution, noticed at reference 2, to move from the Filofax to an electric calendar.

In parallel, I had been learning to love the OneNote application from Microsoft, with one notable advantage being that it synchronised, more or less, across all my various devices.

So what with one thing and another, the Filofax fell out of use. I stopped carrying it about, even stopped taking it on holiday.

But now, a couple of years later, I find that it is staging a comeback, in the form of the red pocket book illustrated, a good deal older and cheaper than the leather affair, but a smaller book that lies open. Almost small enough to fit in a pocket. And which is now being used for occasional scribbles, doodles and taking of notes. Even the odd tearing out of page with message on it for someone else.

We shall see how we get on.

In the meantime, in the snap above, note the corner of the kindle to the left and the bottle of Villa Maria, as sold in all good Wetherspoons, top right. The brown wood lump, middle right, is what I used to hold books (and pocket books) open, books which do not stay open otherwise. Bring back the days when books were properly bound and used properly thin paper, books which stayed open where you left them.

New supply of plain white paper from Rymans - who, interestingly enough, do not seem to sell ordinary notebooks or notepads with plain white paper. You either have to have lined, accounting paper or thick white art paper. None of which is much use to me these days.

Reference 1: http://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=filofax+headquarters.

Reference 2: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/lumia-630.html.