Palimpsest is Two Years Old. Thank-you Giveaway.

Happy birthday to Palimpsest which today completes two years of blogging. A warm thank you to dear Readers and commenters and dropping-by-chancers for keeping this blog alive through thick and thin. It has been a difficult year for Palimpsest. Here are the top ten posts of these two years:

1. Rebirth by Sharpening, on the pleasures of sharpening

2. Penwork that cramps my hand, Heaney's translation of the 11th-century poem

3. Caput Mortuum, Momie, Mommia, Mummy Brown - Gruesome Brown, on brown paint made out of dead Egyptians. 

4. Stationery Store Series: Evripidis in Athens, on an Athens suburban stationery shop

5. The Elusive Elias Wolff, on the English pencil manufacturer 

6. To mark the paper was a decisive act, on writing in the Orwellian dystopia; Brown as in Brown Pens, on... brown pens; The world of ink and paper of Alexei Karenin, on writing instruments in Tolstoy's epic

7. First manned orbital flight and Yuri Gagarin's pencil, on pencils in space, and The Pink of Pink Pens, on... pink pens

8. William Faulkner, his Pen, his Ink, his Pencil

9. To boldly write, on national handwriting, and Rhodia inroads in Rymans, on stocking of the famous notebooks

10. Death of a Wyvern, on the LSE Gaddaffi scandal 

It is traditional to do a thank-you giveaway and I do not intend to break with this tradition. So leave a comment below for a chance to win a little bundle of desk supplies which includes a paperweight from Inklinks, a No. 12 Rhodia bloc (black/lined), some pencils and two Sergent-Major nibs. Dominic Althoefer will be asked to perform the draw after his successful debut as Draw-Master. The draw will take place on Monday 28, 6pm UK time. 


I will post internationally. Good luck.