All tooled up: The essential equipment needed for gardening hasn't changed for centuries

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Writers were once allowed to be obsessive about the tools of their trade. It provided wonderful grist to the biographical mill. Did this author grind powder to make his own ink? Would he only use HB pencils to liberate his prose? Was his paper lined or unlined? Did he, like the magnificent Tom Sharpe, have a fixation about typewriters? A typewriter can breed obsession, but sadly, a word processor can't.











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