Kate Watson
@loreandordure.com
Smallholder, writer, erstwhile vetn'ry, PhD student, ADHD+, lexicographer & alleged Pratchett witch.
Letterpress, photography & digital/analogue miniatures.
Long Covid victim. She/they.
🖋️ https://loreandordure.com/
🖼️ https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure/shop/
Letterpress, photography & digital/analogue miniatures.
Long Covid victim. She/they.
🖋️ https://loreandordure.com/
🖼️ https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure/shop/
Well that was rather stunning! (Both the rainbow and the freezing cold downpour that followed it a few seconds later! 😱)
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Well that was rather stunning! (Both the rainbow and the freezing cold downpour that followed it a few seconds later! 😱)
Clouds clinging oddly to the edge of the moor this morning. Totally different weather just a couple of miles away to what we had as I was feeding the hens this morning.
November 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Clouds clinging oddly to the edge of the moor this morning. Totally different weather just a couple of miles away to what we had as I was feeding the hens this morning.
That’s the label I see anyway:
November 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
That’s the label I see anyway:
Right, who wants breakfast?
November 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Right, who wants breakfast?
I’m sorry, what?? What is that on Thursday?
This is Cornwall, go away!
This is Cornwall, go away!
November 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I’m sorry, what?? What is that on Thursday?
This is Cornwall, go away!
This is Cornwall, go away!
I’m committing genuinely unspeakable crimes against good typesetting here. This forme is essentially a cursed object.
November 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I’m committing genuinely unspeakable crimes against good typesetting here. This forme is essentially a cursed object.
So for those of you following at home, the intention for this print is a two-colour layout something like this digital sketch. There is a long way yet to go!
November 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
So for those of you following at home, the intention for this print is a two-colour layout something like this digital sketch. There is a long way yet to go!
Well well well… this is… not a complete failure?
November 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Well well well… this is… not a complete failure?
Round three with this project which I still suspect is in fact impossible to print. I will not be defeated until I’m quite certain!
November 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Round three with this project which I still suspect is in fact impossible to print. I will not be defeated until I’m quite certain!
I try not to waste too many opportunities to make stock and this is definitely an opportunity to make stock.
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I try not to waste too many opportunities to make stock and this is definitely an opportunity to make stock.
Considering none of you buggers know what I look like…
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Considering none of you buggers know what I look like…
Morning all!
Who wants breakfast?
Who wants breakfast?
November 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Morning all!
Who wants breakfast?
Who wants breakfast?
I may need to ask Santa for some new kitchen spoons and spatulas for Christmas…
November 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I may need to ask Santa for some new kitchen spoons and spatulas for Christmas…
New house friend! (Minor restoration required.)
November 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
New house friend! (Minor restoration required.)
Time to say a regretful goodbye to this handbag, made from reclaimed rice sacks, which I have loved and used and loved and used some more but which has now tragically entered its ‘self-disassembly’ era.
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Time to say a regretful goodbye to this handbag, made from reclaimed rice sacks, which I have loved and used and loved and used some more but which has now tragically entered its ‘self-disassembly’ era.
Gorgeous sunset tonight - a little timeline cleanse for us all:
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Gorgeous sunset tonight - a little timeline cleanse for us all:
Just snuck a quick peek before tucking it back to press and… yeah, it’s a book!
November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Just snuck a quick peek before tucking it back to press and… yeah, it’s a book!
Close the back cover gently against the pasted endpaper making sure to keep the card covers as square as possible and not askew.
Smooth down the paper as before, swap the scrap paper for non-stick, and close the book securely.
Tuck it under a decent weight to dry.
Smooth down the paper as before, swap the scrap paper for non-stick, and close the book securely.
Tuck it under a decent weight to dry.
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Close the back cover gently against the pasted endpaper making sure to keep the card covers as square as possible and not askew.
Smooth down the paper as before, swap the scrap paper for non-stick, and close the book securely.
Tuck it under a decent weight to dry.
Smooth down the paper as before, swap the scrap paper for non-stick, and close the book securely.
Tuck it under a decent weight to dry.
Once it’s adhered, opening the cover as little as possible, smooth the endpaper down with fingertips to flatten any crinkles.
Replace the scrap paper with non-stick.
Then repeat the process with the back endpaper.
Replace the scrap paper with non-stick.
Then repeat the process with the back endpaper.
November 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Once it’s adhered, opening the cover as little as possible, smooth the endpaper down with fingertips to flatten any crinkles.
Replace the scrap paper with non-stick.
Then repeat the process with the back endpaper.
Replace the scrap paper with non-stick.
Then repeat the process with the back endpaper.
(I’m afraid there are no pictures of the critical bits, as I needed both hands for those!)
Pop a sheet of scrap paper between the front endpaper and the rest of the bundle and carefully cover the outside surface with glue (including over and under the strip of mull).
Pop a sheet of scrap paper between the front endpaper and the rest of the bundle and carefully cover the outside surface with glue (including over and under the strip of mull).
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
(I’m afraid there are no pictures of the critical bits, as I needed both hands for those!)
Pop a sheet of scrap paper between the front endpaper and the rest of the bundle and carefully cover the outside surface with glue (including over and under the strip of mull).
Pop a sheet of scrap paper between the front endpaper and the rest of the bundle and carefully cover the outside surface with glue (including over and under the strip of mull).
So! Final steps!
Today I’m gluing the book bundle into the case.
Today I’m gluing the book bundle into the case.
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
So! Final steps!
Today I’m gluing the book bundle into the case.
Today I’m gluing the book bundle into the case.
I am just about to go and make myself mightily unpopular in the village post office, I suspect…
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I am just about to go and make myself mightily unpopular in the village post office, I suspect…
Anyway I have a new jumper so this day rules?
November 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Anyway I have a new jumper so this day rules?