It’s high time I started getting the next England journal entry in (when finished it will pretty much be the entire month of September, with a little bit of story to finish up in October, 2003).

I kept the journal in a small, handy Moleskine pocket journal (the kind with the integral rubber band, lined pages, and a pocket for receipts). I bought mine at the local “Container Store;” they always seem to have a few of the small and large blank journals in stock, along with some different Moleskine books that have extra receipt pockets.

I’m not sure, but I think I have an extra blank one kicking around that I bought as an extra Christmess present. May start carrying it with me, don’t know. But I was astounded recently when I was doing a little background checking that there’s quite an enthusiastic online fanbase for Moleskine journals – and even a blog. Even Neil Gaiman uses them, apparently (or did when this blog entry was posted).

Sadly, according to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (now living at BBCi), the marketing of the Moleskine as “Bruce Chatwin’s notebook!” is a bit, well, spurious at best. However, it’s a decent little blank book and probably a very similar design to the one Chatwin used and enthused about in his book “The Songlines” (which I read long, long ago).

Oh, dear.

A little more browsing at H2G2 led me to this entry on aspiring writers. I think I just heard Marvin sighing very, very sadly and patiently.