Am I Mad......??????

This not a great blip (focus, lighting angle etc) but, it is the best I could do.

Daughter has taken over 5D Mark II and living room, in order to record the reaction of a group of women to reality tv. It's goes towards her final dissertation at Uni, so how could I refuse.

Anyway, this is my beautiful, gorgeous, wonderful, exquisite Mont Blanc fountain pen. I have so long coveted one but never seen one that quite hit the spot. Then I saw this beauty, in a glass case, balanced on a display stand and carefully illuminated to show off it's good looks.

It has a grid pattern (shades of Art Deco, New York, which are good memories) made of rose gold (my favourite) and is called Skywalker (yes I love the Star Wars films!). How could I resist?????????

So, gulp!, for $1260 I am now the proud owner of a Mont Blanc pen. In english that's £850.

It is an obscene amount of money for just a pen - but every time I look at it it makes me happy, which is priceless.

Money well spent, I think and, besides I got the ink cartridges thrown in for free!!!! LoL.........