My favourite typewriter

This is my entry to this month's Bear Blog Carnival, on the topic of our favourite thing in a niche hobby. Thank you for hosting, Kami! This was a fascinating topic to think about.Alternative TextMy favourite typewriter is the one I have: a Royal typewriter, likely decades old, that I found in a charity shop in Edinburgh.I remember seeing the typewriter in the shop window. It was the sixth shop I had been to that day with the obsqure [sic] inquiry "do you have any typewriters?" in the back of my mind. I had hope that I would fine one; if I didn't, I would have kept searching. My experience the day prior writing on a public typewriter in a bookshop was too magical. The typewriter was full of intrigue in my mind.I had felt this way since I was a child. I remember our family had a computer but I was still intrigued by typewriters at the age of ten or twelve or so. Typewriters were different to the computer keyboards with which I was accustomed. I was unsure what the differences were,…