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New Moleskines for 2014. Commence fawning.

The famous little plastic Danish chaps make a return on their 2014 Moleskines

The famous little plastic Danish chaps make a return on their 2014 Moleskines

The Little Prince Moleskine with its new colours in blue & white for 2014

The Little Prince Moleskine with its new colours in blue & white for 2014

Thought I’d go a bit mad and create a new board on Pinterest with all our favourite and prettiest Moleskines on. Moleskines are hugely popular notebooks, diaries and journals made of tough but smooth leather, thick professional paper and goodies encased within of stickers, cards and other wonderful little pull-outs made to enhance the fun of your chosen Moleskine.

The ones I’ve chosen to highlight are some of my favourites, including new 2014 editions for these icons of pop culture; Star Wars, LEGO, Peanuts, Le Petit Prince and new to the collection, Disney. All but the latter have had previous limited editions throughout the years and have obviously proved their success as new ones continue to be commissioned annually. Epic wins.

Proving that your childhood never dies are the LEGO ones, which are very cool with a sweet little LEGO flat tile included on the front cover and cute stickers inside. Choose from red, yellow, green or black as your favourite colour LEGO Moleskine to have. Antoine De Saint-Exupery’s masterpiece, Le Petit Prince (the Little Prince) has a new range for 2012 too, with a set of white with blue text and blue with white text on the covers. You can get these as pocket and large formats and feature artwork from Le Petit Prince inside. George Lucas’ it-just-won’t-die epic space saga Star Wars has a new range for 2014 too boasting six new editions, with covers featuring Yoda, Obi Wan Kenobi, a Stormtrooper, Darth Vader and two editions where you can chose your own cover from the stickers included inside. Pretty neat and very geeky. My kingdom for Star Trek ones. Maybe one day. Another pop culture icon series that has been granted a new range for 2014 is Charles M. Schulz’s iconic Peanuts series. They have gone for a much less colourful series for next year with modest black and white and blue and white editions, but this time a different quote has been embossed on the covers. As previously mentioned, new to the Moleskine family this year but probably not the last time is Disney, with four different editions featuring the famous mouse immortalised on the jacket. Each edition has a different Mickey pose printed on the leather covers, and housing within a cool little Mickey drawing guide inside too.

And if you are a big fan of either Le Petit Prince or Peanuts, then you have been blessed with Gift Box editions of your favourite characters too.

If any of those book characters or film franchises are not your cup of Earl Grey when selecting your Moleskine for next year, or you just fancy a journal and not a diary then check out the Passion series which covers themes and hobbies of interest: well-being, music, books, newborn baby, cats, recipes, wine, films, art, restaurants, home life, chocolate, beer, dogs, style, gardening and travel. Phew! You’re bound to find your interest in there, surely? All of them have fun items included inside to enhance your journal as you document the things you love.

There are many other ranges of Moleskine that Hive stock, so do check them out. New lines for 2014 will start to show throughout this year in June and September (when the majority of the pop icon ones will be released) and who knows, maybe one day I will be blessed with a Star Trek range. I live in hope.

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You can see our featured Moleskines on our dedicated page here, where you’ll also find our range of Moleskine travel and office accessories too.

Our rather fabulous new Moleskine Pinterest board is here.

It’s a theme park Jim, but not as we know it.

Good afternoon to you, my faithful followers. I trust this Thursday is treating you well so far.

The Edinburgh map on the Guardian's blog

If you’re going to the Edinburgh Fringe, are there already or maybe just a fan of Scottish writing, you might be interested in this little feature I came across via the Guardian’s Book blog. Edinburgh City Libraries has created a fun and interesting little interactive map (with the help of Google) of Edinburgh in the city’s literary form; by clicking on various book jackets on the map you are taken to the places in Edinburgh that correspond, or have been written about in fiction, in that location. Should your appetite have been whetted and you wish to continue reading, you can also click to reserve the book too from any of the participating libraries in Edinburgh. To see the map and have a browse, click here where you can click on any jacket and read the details of the associated title of that location. (Try scrolling out of the map and seeing just how many books there are!)

Ian Rankin's Edinburgh app

And if you want even more of Edinburgh’s finest literature, do yourself a favour and download Ian Rankin’s free Edinburgh app too. This is a truly fantastic app, which will satisfy the bestselling Scottish writer’s many legions of fans. Working in the same way as the Edinburgh libraries map and powered again by Google, this takes the reader through Rankin’s Edinburgh and how he has written the city in his Rebus novels and other works. There are exclusive photographs of locations, video and audio from Rankin himself made just for the app, image galleries and lots more information and extras about his stories. The app is free and available by going onto Rankin’s website here and following the links.

Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray

Although there’s no accounting for taste, yesterday certain members of the workforce here at Hive Towers certainly felt the force upon learning about the limited edition Star Wars notebooks Moleskine are planning to release in September. Yes, the Star Wars-what-can-they-merchandise-next question was indeed answered with the news of these pocket and large-sized notebooks hitting the virtual shelves of Hive and the physical ones in your local indie in the next few weeks. And what with the Blu-ray of the complete saga coming out in October too, the Christmas lists of Star Wars fans are growing by the inch.

But anything George Lucas can do, the legacy of Gene Roddenberry can do better.

Everyone has their geeky side, and I am proudly of no exception. You can imagine my only-measurable-by-the-stratosphere-excitement when I learned a few days ago about another very big (and rich) geek, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and his plans to build a Star Trek theme park in his motherland. I kid you not and you can read for yourself in more detail here, but suffice to say I think this is going to be astronomical. The theme park is expected to be ready for launch in 2014 boasting the inclusion of hotels, restaurants, theatres, shops and will be the ultimate mecca for us Trekkers out there. I’m fairly confident James T. Kirk himself never made it to Jordan, but I’m pretty sure The Shat will be happy when he goes to see it once it’s been engaged. Make it so.

The famous recipe

Bringing myself slightly back down to Earth after that, I caught an episode of Nigella Express on one of the Sky food channels a few days ago. Nigella as we know, as talented and beautiful as she is, was never one for staying awake at night worrying about calorie content or measuring those highly-addictive substances known as sugar and butter in her recipes. With this in mind, I was still shocked however to see her broadcast to our nation, with no sense of irony, her recipe for Caramel Croissant Pudding. She happily cooked and married away together 100g of caster sugar, 125ml of double cream and 125ml of full-fat (but of course) milk and baked it in the oven as it sat in a dish covering the hunks of two stale all-butter croissants. The cherry on the cake so to speak? The end of the episode where she sneaked down to her kitchen in the dead of night, pilfered the remaining dish from the fridge, and promptly scuttled away back up to her bedroom to immerse it in even more double cream as a midnight-snack. Should you have fallen out with your arteries recently, you can teach them who’s boss by finding the recipe here or indeed, the book itself here.

I leave you now as I must go and squee a bit more about the release news of The Adventures of Tintin coming out remastered on Blu-ray this October.

Told you I was a geek.

‘Laters!

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