DO try this at home! . . .

 . . . if you have half a chance, and before the nannies start to twitter. Surely, this is what childhood is all about!     Agility, coupled with a bit of brotherly co-operation, leads to   satisfaction, and a great bowl of cherries!  ...

Black spots on a peacock’s tail.

    There are many logistical imperatives that determine the order in which these pages return to the press for another printing. The need to change the colour of the ink on the press as seldom as possible is one obvious one and the fact that the effect of green on...

A Cool Printing for a Hot Day

I can hardly believe it but I am really coming to the end of printing these images for Ralph Kiggell’s The Third Thing. My printing office is cruelly cold during the winter but deliciously cool in summer. Added to that I was printing the final,...

“Gone Fising”

  Well, we did not do any fishing as such but we have eaten enough of the stuff! And wonderful it was too. Frances and I decided a few weeks ago that we needed to get away for a few days (three nights to be exact) and one particular hotel seemed to jump out of...

More Water

I am certainly going to resist the temptation to post an image of every page of this book the moment it comes  off the press with the final printing in place but, with Ralph’s simple but amazingly powerful image for the titlepage spread completed this morning, I...

Hibernation is at an end! (I promise.)

     Variations of this somewhat unpreposessing sight have been in front of my eyes day after day in my printing office over a period of many months. They have all been blocks cut by Ralph Kiggell in Bangkok for his second book with The Old Stile Press...