Just when I was content to lean back, release a sigh of relief and agree with myself that I do now really have all the essentials gadgets I could possibly need want, the ever so inspired good wife finds a new one!

A Pelikan M205 DUO, how’s that?

You’ll probably never heard of it either. It is a fountain pen and a marker pen all in one (hence called duo). It takes normal fountain pen ink and it takes highlighter ink (hence called duo), just not at once. I suppose they should have called it Pelican M205 DUO SQUARED therefore. Or maybe a fountain pen and fountain pen highlighter ink. But that’d be too profane I’m sure.

Some of my dial-in web conference meetings will become a great deal more interesting. Or acidly.

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