Previously… I first enthused about the Belkin QODE Ultimate Keyboard for the IPad Air, then I had some problems with it and posted a little less enthusiastically.

Not so much less enthusiastically that stopped using it.

But while I was writing about this, I did mention how I’d previously used a couple of external keyboards for my iPad. One went to Angela, a very good and quite cheap Logitech one that she still uses and an Apple wireless keyboard. In some ways better than the Logitech, in some ways not as good. But more expensive. And when I had that and Angela had her Logitech, we would even write together. Sitting in a café in the Lake Distract, propped-up iPads leaning against each other.

Now that I’m used to carrying the Belkin keyboard case around, though, that Apple wireless keyboard has lain forgotten in my office.

Until this weekend. I’m behind on a book and we were going to lose quite a bit of time to a workshop I ran in Newcastle and then a London trip to see Kate Bush. (Yes, by the way. Yes. Astounding. It wasn’t a concert, it was a delicate shotgun.) But Angela then got a thing to do during both Saturday and Sunday and I planned to hole up and write.

And for some reason, I brought my old Apple Wireless Keyboard. As well as the Belkin case.

I am persistently tapping the wrong keyboard; there’s a handy iPad key on the Belkin one that isn’t on the Apple one. Plus, I had thought I would never get used to a particular design decision on the Belkin where they moved the semi-colon to beside the keyboard. I still get it wrong when I’m writing on that but it turns out that i must be at least seeping in to my muscle memory because I keep pressing the Belkin key on the Apple keyboard.

But I can’t pretend that this isn’t true: I’m enjoying the writing and it is working faster because I’m on a very good keyboard. A very good and also full-size keyboard.

And if you think I look daft typing with two keyboards, you’re right. I’m just fine with that.