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[NickFitz]

Somebody’s moving into the former dogs’ flat!

He’s using a van from a local arts organisation based nearby, down New Walk; they do youth outreach projects and the like, and have a vegetarian café in their premises a few days a week. The van appears to be a work of art in its own right because it’s been painted so that it looks as if it’s spent the last forty years gathering muck in a railway arch with a leaky diesel tank overhead

It seems to drive perfectly well so it must look like that on purpose. I’ve already spotted one of the neighbours pausing to look askance at it. It’ll be quite amusing if it turns out he intends to keep it here

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought from KFC

Still nice out. It became quite Simpsonesque during the afternoon

[xoggoth]

After a quick call in at local fair took infirm old LL2 to one of those NGS garden things this afternoon, very nice place. We called in at art exhibition afterwards, 3 ladies I know from my art group had stuff up and had sold a few things. Don't think anyone would buy my monstery pics.

[NickFitz]

No Monkey Life today as they continued their reruns of anything they could lay their hands on that had David Attenborough in it. Oh well, he’s always good

Later, I read more of XPD. This stands for “Expedient Demise”, BTW, and even the guy from MI6 is starting to wonder whether his own bosses might be making such arrangements for him

I also bought a secondhand printer's lead cutter on eBay. Back when I was in the 6th form I did a Graphic Design O Level on the side, for which we travelled down to Dunstable College for an afternoon every couple of weeks, where they had an excellent printing department full of letterpress equipment. One time the guy who ran it let those of us who had our own presses help ourselves to freshly-cast leads, reglets, and rules (leads are for normal line spacing, reglets are thicker leads, and rules are for printing lines and borders). I still have a load of this stuff which was cast in lengths of about thirty inches or so, so I need some way of cutting it to size if I’m to make use of it in my Adana 8-5

Goodnight all