Took the wife and kids to the beach the other day.
I worked on a devotional topic for church next Sunday while they enjoyed the water.
I took along my Remington #5 portable to try and use in the car as Joe V C is found to do sometimes.
I didn't feel like sitting at a picnic table as the park was rather busy at the time but the #5 was just a bit too cumbersome to work sitting in the car with it.
Stuck with the notebook and pen for the first draft and I am supposed to be typing it out right now but I find myself too easily distracted by this electronic 'wonder box' to make anything like progress on it.

Now an Urania 8 sits on the desk.

A beast, and a gloomy one. Strong lines, weird black paint which is not really black, missing bell, quite silent, types flawlessly after being brought back to life from a state of broken carriage rails... Not a funny machine like a colorful Olympia Traveller de Luxe, not a serious one like a Torpedo 20, but a dark one.

They' re German. From Dresden, in fact. They still produced typewriters for a few years after WW2, and they went from offering really beautiful machines with large and colorful decals which represented the world to dark, almost featureless monsters which are pretty unique. Wartime machines are notorious for their lack of superfluous features, such as decoration and even functions. Can' t remember exactly which one, but there was a DM (or was it a Juwell?) without backspacer.

1928 Royal Portable with green crackle paint. My first acquisition from about a month ago.