09/10/2026
New journals incoming for Proper lovely today: pre loved OS maps, screen print monotype by Rach Evans and Mutianyu Great Wall of China drypoint.
All Handprinted and bound.
I am a map addict and, in the poetic words of my father:
“No one who can read a map need grow old.
I am a map worm.
I read maps like I read books, to mine the treasures in them…..
When I crackle them across the table
From them falls old peat, heather and grass.
And when I take a sybaritic sniff
Of this desiccated mountain s***f
Those dreams come alive again…….”
My mountain days are tucked within the folds of many many maps. I open one and memories come tumbling out of the pages, always something new every time.
A new path to mark, a new Munro to tick off, plans to savour and cherish.