Happily Ever After
Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running
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A Few Words With Tigger
by admin - 22:52 on 20 May 2011
Our search for a reliable printer appears to be at an end; the latest round of pre-press preparation continues, however. There's always something.
This morning, Andrew, Marten James and I left the Black Isle at a ridiculously early hour so we could be in Findhorn by 9am and meet the next inky expert to potentially be entrusted with our hard work.
It was a bit of a culture shock. If Norman is Eeyore, Howard, the top man at Big Sky, is Tigger. But we left his premises confident that he could produce a thousand litho copies of The Bumper Book of Black Isle Snappery with speed and without drama, and despite baffling us with talk of icc profiles, the difference between American and European ink and the heat absorption properties of paper.
The bonus is that as his premises is part of the Findhorn Foundation, every copy will have good karma built in.
The only fly in the ointment involves the effect his chosen colour profile has on our image reproduction. Andrew and I will meet on Sunday and attempt to resolve the problem.
Back on the Black Isle, more grateful vendors received their stock and several individual copies were posted to website buyers. It's good to be back in action again.
There was no opportunity to rest in the evening for house guests Don and Dee arrived ahead of a friend's wedding tomorrow. Dee was clearly anxious to avoid being recognised during her brief return to the Highlands, for she sported a most fetching blonde wig. This could be A Bad Thing as Matchgirl has been given ideas.
Dinner was taken at Sutor Creek in Cromarty, where the once good food food has become even better in the hands of new management and a chef who formerly worked in a Michelin-starred restaurant. Crab sausage anyone? And the lamb shank with mash and red cabbage could have been eaten with a spoon. Superb.
Marten Update: Nothing to report.
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