Paw Prints — notebook

I want to end the year on a positive though, so I'm going to share with you my top 5 items of stationery from 2020. A couple are old favourites that will make the list any year; the rest are things that are new (or at least new to me) this year.

In no particular order...

The pocket notebook world is a fairly crowded place. It's not really enough to just have a notebook out there, it needs to stand out. So, what marks out this latest from Storyboard?

This is a series of four pocket-size notebooks commemorating four musicians who all died at age 27 - hence the name of the collection. On the front cover of each notebook is a drawing of the musician - Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix or Jim Morrison - and on the inside of the front cover are notes about their life. The front cover image is repeated on the inside of the back cover, so if you so desired, you could remove the cover and have the image and the notes alongside one another.

Back Pocket 27 Club Notebook

Ooh... now THIS is a lovely thing!! It's Traveler's Notebook size, has a sturdy cover, and 200 pages of 5mm dot grid Tomoe River paper.

Have I got your attention yet?

Excellent.

The Pebble Stationery TN-sized notebook. This is the first TN-sized notebook that Nero's has stocked, so why this one? You need to ask? It's glorious.

I'm due to go on a walking holiday soon, covid-19 allowing. That said, right this moment, I'm not hugely hopeful we'll end up going. We were scheduled to go away in March, but 5 days before we were due to go, lock-down started and everything got cancelled. Here we are, 6 months later, and I suspect the exact same thing will happen again.

But... in the hope that we do get away, what notebook should I take with me?