It's an odd thing, but names can sometimes be appropriate beyond all imagining. Take for example, the greedy and incompetent erstwhile Chief Exec of RBS, currently grabbing his distended pension as hard as he can go. His name? "good win". Come to think of it, Royal Bank itself is another example; it's certainly in a right royal mess.
Be that as it might, our company name is Libre Livre, which is French - well, loosely. As a matter of fact, the name was chosen to indicate that our range of notebooks and albums have free, blank, open pages, so customers can use them however they choose.
Picking up on the French theme - and keen readers of this blog may have stumbled on our sister site "Lyons La Foret, A Small Town in Normandy" - we have decided it's high time to brush up our French. A charming lady is due to visit our workshop this morning for my first hour's lesson, must dash...
Au revoir
Thursday, 26 March 2009
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Printing Course
As mentioned a few days ago, last weekend the Head Marbler and I both went on a printing course in Lewes. It was hard work. We carved our designs into sheet of plywood, inked up, set the press to get something like the right pressure and let it roll.
The results were not good, here is one of our better efforts:
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