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The Cunning Plan Takes Shape
by admin - 20:49 on 21 February 2011
Norman didn't turn a hair when I put my Cunning Plan to him – to print a thousand rather than two hundred copies of The Bumper Book of Black Isle Snappery. Payment in instalments would be fine, he said, as would a final payment delayed until after the Black Isle Show in August.
The businessman in him obviously likes the idea of a stall piled high with books surrounded by free-spending crowds out for a good time at the area's premier agricultural show. The cost is still to be decided.
As for the victims of The Great Binding Disaster, three copies have been received and examined in Wakefield where the consensus of opinion is that the glue was too hot, which made it brittle, hence the instant shedding of pages. A repair will be attempted and the result sent north for our perusal, following which we'll decide whether the first print run will be salvaged or pulped.
My afternoon was spent preparing three top quality prints for Cromarty Camera Club's final competition of the season, subject natural history, which will be judged in a few weeks by an Inverness snappery expert. A robin, a lizard and (of course) Master Marten comprise my entry.
I'm quietly confident... that I'll do as well as I have in the rest of this season's previous competitions. There's always next year.
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