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| Fold-up furniture is an easy porch solution. It cannot get stolen or bird-crapped on and it stows away beside your typewriter shelves. |
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| Sorry the printing is light, not the best machine. Still a loved machine though. |
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| My porch sitting view. |
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| Typing topless so I can fiddle with the ribbon as it stops up. Also a good view of the QWERTZ keyboard for those who haven't seen one. See that the Z and Y are switched. A keen eye might note I used a semi-colon in my typecast but the machine doesn't have one. I simply printed a colon, backspaced, and printed a comma on top. |
I must say I am a bit envious of your hillside view. While my flat is decent and my neighborhood is as well, it is tiny and devoid of nature. I have tired of urban life and truly miss and yearn for the country, or at least a front yard. My poor dog has grown nearly hoarse, howling at sirens as they pass on the street below.
ReplyDeleteI like the typewriter! I'm in the market for a Cyrillic model myself to bridge the gap between my rapidly-growing typewriter collection and my Russian militaria collection. I would like to learn Russian anyway, so it's a double enabling excuse. Are you fluent in German? On a cursory read of your typecast, my guess is yes.
Believe it or not my home is actually within town limits of a city with a population of around 20,000... it's just on the edge so I get the best of both worlds.
DeleteI have one Cyrillic typewriter but I don't use it so often because my Russian is pretty poor. I took 3 semesters of it but I was focusing on engineering at the time and didn't put much effort into it. Ich spreche Deutsch. I will never be mistaken for a native speaker by any means but anything I need to say I can say and if the other person speaks clearly and slowly I can get along in conversation. You'll see my Cyrillic typewriter sometime, but I won't be able to do much of a typecast on it!
That is a nice view. I was glad to get a QWERTZ for the same reason. Then suddenly I had three. The Swiss don't use ß, so the Swissa is a bit different. It also accommodates French.
ReplyDeleteWas that your letter in "Typewriters Around the World" the other day?
Didn't know that about the Swiss. I have two QWERTZ and one Cyrillic typewriter in my collection. I wanted this one though because bad as it is I think it is in better shape than my Olympia which I will introduce to this blog eventually. By accommodates French do you mean has the accents? Because both of my QWERTZ machines do that. You can do the little c thing with c, backspace, comma. And make a chapeau or whatever they call it by hitting both accents.
DeleteAnd good job catching me, that is indeed my letter which I mailed out several months ago. I also sent him pictures of the Sprite and it's a shame he didn't post those. It was a pretty slick looking machine. My friend owns it now.
Looks like a fine place to do some typing.
ReplyDeleteVery nice set up you have there. The first apartment I rented was chosen for the balcony. A couple of chairs and a grill later, and my brother and I spent many a good night on that balcony.
ReplyDeleteI will be getting my first QWERTZ typewriter soon, and I am anxious to try my hand at it. You did a very nice job keeping it in line.
Also, that little table looks like a little ironing board.
It sort of does look like an ironing board. It is an acceptable table, but I would prefer one that was just slightly more sturdy. At least it was cheap and easily stowable.
DeleteHi Mark
ReplyDeleteVery nice place to type.
I have a typewriter just like it - exept mine is the Gabriele 25. And it's the Danish keyboard with æ, ø and å. It prints so nice. I wrote my Aunt a letter the other day, and photocopied it to have a copy of it for my self. Looking at the photocopy you would really have to look hard to know that it wasn't done on a computer. So far its my favourite machine. But then again - I only have three typewriters as for now.
Just bought an Erika though - slowly getting into that one.
I might be getting my first Erika soon. It types in Fraktur! The European typewriters excite me, you don't see a lot besides Olympias and Olivettis here.
DeleteI like your last name by the way, mine is Petersen. People often spell it son and not sen, but it is so much cooler with an E.