I have to say, the new Opera Air browser I just download to my MacBook is an absolute game-changer. Completely different look, quick as greased lightning, and I'm LOVING the breathing exercises and mindful music / rainfall sounds they've packaged into it. Refreshing in every sense of the term!

COMPETITION: We are giving away a signed copy of the new County Championship shirt in conjunction with WPA Health Insurance! 🎁 To be in with a chance simply like, repost and follow @somersetccc.bsky.social! The winner will be chosen at random next week! #WeAreSomerset

It's been a while since we ran an interview feature in the Terrascope, but this one was just too good an opportunity to miss... Nigel Cross chats to James Roberts the genial genius behind the mighty DELTA www.terrascope.co.uk/Features/Del...

Sad to hear (via Bill Bruford) that percussionist Jamie Muir passed away yesterday, 17th February. We featured Jamie in Ptolemaic Terrascope issue 8 back in 1991, so this seems as good a time as any to reproduce the interview here: bit.ly/4i0SkJ7

A single LP (sides 1 & 2) with a gatefold sleeve is invariably stored on the right-hand side as you open it. The left side is usually a sealed flap. So why do new double LPs always come with sides 3 & 4 stored on the right-hand side and sides 1 & 2 relegated to the left-hand side? It's just WRONG.

Terrascopædia 24. Interviews include Barbara Manning, Ben Chasny, Jeffrey Alexander, Henry Parker. Entirely hand printed, set in 14pt type on a 1926 Arab Foolscap Folio treadle press. Large Post Quarto size. 28 pages. 150 copies made. Handful left. the-ptolemaic-press.sumupstore.com/products

First snowdrop’s out in the garden here. Poor thing has popped its head above the parapet on the coldest day of the winter so far, but it’s all the more welcome for all that.

Well, that went better than I expected... #alphaguess

A sheddie on bluesky, great shed The Ptolemaic Press - Workshop/Studio - Wiltshire #shedoftheyear owned by Sheddie Philip McMullen @philmcm.bsky.social www.readersheds.co.uk/share.cfm?sh... The Ptolemaic Press is a #printing press #publishing hand-crafted #publications on #vintage equipment

Carnage here! So many trees down! #stormbert

I was planning on doing some typesetting today but looking at how hard the frost is, I have a feeling I'll be staying inside rather than sitting out in the sunshine...

Soundtrack to today’s print session is an absolutely gorgeous new/forthcoming album on Silver Current from Julie Beth Napolin, delivering blissed out vibes like some heavenly collision betwixt Nico and Kendra Smith

Do you like the feedback at the beginning of Sonic Youth's dancefloor hit "Ghost Bitch"? Of course, we all do. Well here's an album (and frankly, a band) that does nothing but that. Enjoy with a snifter of methylated spirits in the squat of your choice. mirrorworldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

New-found respect today for those French salesmen who would bring their cycles, striped shirts & berets across to S. England with strings of onions slung insouciantly around their necks. It was all I could do to lift them up onto their hooks in the orchard drying room today. Such a weight!

View of the new workshop from the other direction - paper temporarily stored up high. I’ve successfully printed the some cover images for the next issue of the Terrascopædia so it’s fair to say we’re up and running now.

The Ptolemaic Press is close to moving in to its new home - the presses are up and running, the type holdings (some wood, mainly metal) has still to be moved but we’re getting there…

Free Times’ self-titled LP is a skronky, fuzzed-up cosmic ride that any of my fellow jam heads will dig: recordcratesunited.com/2023/10/19/f...

Terrascope's reviews for October are up now, and there's some real gems this month incl. new ones by Teeth of the Sea and the Luck of Eden Hall. I should add that although I retain a fatherly interest, publishing rights to Terrascope are independently owned. www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Revi...

Bob-dog diligently guards the bottom row of records. In order to dive in and grab the one I want to play, I have to pull a handful at a time and hope the right one is in amongst them. Returning it to its proper place is an entirely separate operation in which careful timing is absolutely vital...

Lovely day spent at the New Forest Wayzgoose today. Bought linocuts, ink, type AND scored some vintage plates and equipment from the former Curwen Press. Amazing to think this stuff could actually have been handled by Ravilious et al