Paw Prints — Travellers notebook

As some of you might know, I'm a writer. Whenever I'm out walking, I have a notebook with me, usually an A5 or thereabouts. These notebooks get tossed in my rucksack and have to hold their own. If only there were some sturdy, lightweight cover I could put them in... one that wouldn't add much weight to the bag but which would keep all sorts of bits and bobs together, including the notebook, a pen and various other random odds and ends...

Enter the Lochby Field Journal!

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...

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.

'Proper' bullet journalling is something I simply cannot get on with! In the 'pure' form, you have one notebook and everything goes in it. There are index pages (which are actually tables of contents, but don't get me started on that), then forward planning pages, monthly logs, daily logs, collections... and much of me can see how keeping that all in one book might be useful, but it's just not how my brain works!

You can see more on the Bullet Journal system here. And if it does work for you, then Nero sells a whole heap of notebooks that will work for it, including Bullet Journal kits by Leuchtturm.

So why doesn't it work for me?