Front cover print printing

This may be of interest or it may not. Probably not. But anyway...
For the 'launch' of my relatively recent book HOUSEHOLD WORMS myself and Mr Ambrose Blimfield (the designer and typographer of the book) thought it would be a pretty neat idea to print large format front covers and pages of the book to offer to sale to the public. Or, at any rate, the members of the public who turned up to the 'launch'. Despite the fact that we had this pretty neat idea quite late one evening at the pub didn't stop us from carrying out the plan. So here, below, is stage one, the border, printed in red, drying on the rack. It's not interesting.

And here is the same rack, only about an hour later, when we've printed the black ink of the illustration. It's still not very interesting, but it's these somewhat trivial accomplishments that keep me from gloom and probably also from various activities bad for the health and destructive to the self. I would generally offer the advice that harmless activities of this sort are a good idea. I'm still here, aren't I?