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Moments like this make me feel so gloriously small and insignificant in an enormous, beautiful universe. If I’m this small, that must mean my problems are even smaller, right?

Moorland sunset. Beautifully executed by the sky painters.

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Now… this wasn’t the colour combination I had had in mind, I just wanted to try the cursed forme with proper ink and had a roller with Prussian Blue on already… but the more I look at it the more I like it? Maybe with gold details?

The cursed forme, now at an extra cursed angle.

And over-printed onto the pale blue circle.

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Lot of work for some pale blue circles. 😂

Lino circle on the small press inked in very pale transparent blue

The plate on a tabletop with some proof prints.

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It’s so glum today! And there’s no power here so having to supplement the good sized window with a little LED reading lamp.

A table top full of set type with a Lino block and tools in the centre.

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Anyway that’s much better. Now doe the most boring piece of linocutting work ever. Yep, it’s a 9.5cm circle.

A sanded block on which a circle has been transferred from a card template.

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Sure would be nice if mounted lino blocks came sanded actually smooth so I didn’t need to do this every time…

A Lino block on a table next to a sheet of fine sandpaper.

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Morning nerds! Who wants breakfast?

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This had no place printing honestly!

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I have recorded the fonts, thusly:

Proof print annotated line by line.
Imprint 14pt
Gill Sans 12pt
Mercury Script 14pt
Brush Script 30pt
Gill Sans 12pt
Imprint Shadow 18pt
Light English Text 24pt
Broadway Engraves 14pt, and
Times New Roman 18pt.

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Ok, so… not completely cursed?

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 25/09/2026

Quite possibly my first genuinely cursed forme. I have the greatest of possible doubts that this can ever be made printable (and someone for the love of all that is holy please make me write down what all the fonts are before I forget!)

Type set in sort of a circle, on a curve. All kinds of type. It is a horror show.

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Sometimes the sky here likes to put on a show. Timeline cleanse:

Moorland sunset, equinox edition. Orange and blue.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 25/09/2026

Taken just now, my really healthy established outdoor fig. First few leaves very much going.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 24/09/2026

This is her “that cannot possibly be everything, mother!” face.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 24/09/2026

Anyway, since I’m up, who wants eggs?

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 23/09/2026

First sunset after equinox. Decent show, yes.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 23/09/2026

There comes a time in every cook’s life when you just have to accept that Pimentón de la Vera goes in very nearly everything and you need to buy a proper sized tin.

A large (350g) tin of sweet pimenton sitting om top of a Rayburn.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 21/09/2026

Can’t help thinking of this chap, the printers devil in York.

A red Devil carved in wood is perched on a building.

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The print itself (inking, impression) still needs a bit of work but I’m happy with this for a quick set up based on the crotchety selection of fonts of type in my collection.

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After a good hunt through them I established that it did, however, include about seven lowercase-t. So some surgery was required.

Print reset with an approximation to the correct letters.

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If you spotted the typo there, congratulations, that’s rather sooner than I did!

Several prints on white card and scrap paper of the quote with its egregious typo.

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As well as somewhat un-frustrating myself about card designs (though the jury is still out) I made up a little side project by way of possible postcard / compliments card.

A Thomas Moore quote “Though an angel should write, still ‘tis DEVILS must print.” ok graph paper on the platen of the press.

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Still, you win some, you lose some. There are some fun things in this bundle including what look like some very pretty wildlife plates.

A close up on the selection of wildlife images.

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There are a couple of possible colours here. I’m still not convinced this card isn’t too far towards teal but beggars can’t be choosers. If I get the colours right it might yet work.

Colour draw downs on white paper and blue card. Colour theory is hard, m’kay?

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And currently *not* having fun with these on the blue.

Colour draw downs on white paper and blue card.

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There is a really lovely group of wildlife plates which might, sometime? The brands are social history really.

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Well that’s a bit of a discovery! Load of unmounted plates in amongst some set type from a clearance lot. I did have to detach all of this from 30+ year old sticky tape. I can feel my archives friends wincing from here!

An assortment of unmounted metal printing plates.

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