a day or two at the seaside . . .

We popped down to our favourite part of Pembrokeshire at the beginning of this week. Partly business of a sort but we did get down to the sea . . . and enjoyed some unexpectedly glorious sun. I really DO love just walking and looking but I cannot resist searching for...

p.s. to the flood

Knowing, as I do, that half the world is agog to discover every feature and happening of ‘our’ river, I felt that I must waste a moment of your time with the following! This photograph, and the one below, have little point without my stating 1: this dead...

In the Printing Office . . .

. . . things are beginning to bubble up nicely! At the beginning of work on any book it seems that weeks if not months of solid work go by and nothing seems to have been achieved. I print text on one side of a sheet but I know that that sheet must have text on the...

Harry Brockway: Sculptor & Wood Engraver

As a recent visit here allowed me to take a photograph of our long-standing friend, Harry Brockway, I thought I would embarrass him by putting up a selection of lovely things that he has done for and with us over the years. When you see examples of his work in his two...

It’s been raining a bit in Wales . . .

. . . so we’re a little flooded. Happens each year (more with global warming, no doubt!) and does not matter to us for the good old builders of our house built it safely up the side of the valley rather than in the flood plain which seems to have been the...