Alphabe Thursday Q is for Quink

Oh dear ‘Q’ has come round again but I didn’t have to look far this time. On my desk is a bottle of ink; it is called Quink,  a word formed from ‘quick’ and ‘ink’ developed by the Parker Pen Company in 1928. It was to be the new writing system, the ink drying by absorption and not by evaporation.  It was used with the Parker 51 pen introduced 10 years later.

Although I use a fountain pen all the time; especially when writing by first drafts for my blog (I can write more quickly with a fountain pen) I prefer cartridges as they are less messy.

But I like this little bottle; it was designed with a low centre of gravity to prevent tipping. Which was a good feature for me; as child as be lived on a houseboat.  A bottle of Quink, with an assortment of pens always stood precariously on the sideboard.  Although it was securely moored beyond the high tide level to have at least one thing unspillable in a family of 6 was a good thing.

My mother was determined that we should continue to use fountain pens;  even though ball points such as Biro were becoming available and affordable. She believed ball point pens were harmful to handwriting!