A Slice of Green lunch boxes and containers were designed to offer a stylish range of reusable products to pack and transport healthy, homemade food and snacks for all the family, working towards a zero waste 'on-the-go' balanced lunch. The report covers working hours and wages, hygiene, health and safety, waste management, child and young labour, labour practices including forced labour, worker representation, disciplinary practices and discrimination.

For example, on 2 June I wrote down some reflections on HM The Queen’s birthday parade – the Trooping of the Colour in Horseguards Parade, watched on TV.Interestingly, the pages are about 7″ wide by 10″ long, making the book a handy compromise between the usual A5 and A4 sizes:- Agenzio notebook in blue, sandwiched between A4 and A5 notebooks. With a casual glance, you could easily miss the Semikolon Islands, and their punctilious inhabitants. There is even a x10 loupe inset in the handle which is useful occasionally, although it needs to be held very close to the eye. I presume that this was due to the fact that it was November and over four of the 18 months covered by the diary had already passed.

Scrittura Elegante from the Netherlands, had a good display, where I handled an Edison Collier in the lovely burnished gold finish and saw some Opus 88 eye-dropper demonstrators that I had not come across before, as well as some Laban pens from Taiwan with German nibs in some attractive colours. Of the four pens that I bought that day, it turned out to be the one I have enjoyed picking up and using the most. I was inspired recently by Margana at Inkophile who kept a record of repeat fills of her pens and was able to tell me that one was on its 18th consecutive fill of Pilot Iroshizuku Syo-ro.This last slogan can be found on advertising images of old and translates, I think, to something like “the tank pen” or “the pen with a reservoir. I am sorry, but stainless steel is a good conductor of heat, this means the heat from your curry is likely to find its way to the surface of the metal box and conducted to the next closet surface such as your bag or surface it is placed on. If presented when making a purchase, you would be given an offer with your receipt, for a discount on your next purchase, subject to various conditions. I have written before about my late Godfather, uncle Brian, whose old Montblanc Mary once showed me on a previous visit.