Happy Christmas!

Our tree is up and decorated and Spooner-Gregory Acres is looking very festive indeed. We will be having a proper knees-up because Jon has finally finished his PhD. Hurrah! Here is the finished bound thesis - the hard back version will be bound later in the spring, after his viva.

In case anyone is wondering it's called ' Marginal Environments and the Idea of Improvement: Heathland and Moorland Landscapes c.1650-1850'.

Happy Christmas everyone!

We have a winner!

Congratulations to Jenna! And thank you to everyone else for leaving such lovely comments :)

A short post today - it's so cold that I can't type properly! We had a little expedition out into the cold to buy our Christmas tree, its sitting outside in a bucket at the moment but expect a blog post festooned with decorations soon!

A giveaway!

Today is the 2nd anniversary of 'For What is Chatteris?', which we started all the way back in December 2006.

You can read our very first post here.

To celebrate we are giving away a veritable smorgasbord of printed goodies!

To win, simply leave a comment on this post before midnight (GMT) on Tuesday 16th December - a week from now.

What you can win -

A Tulips linocut
Our little Edgefield wood engraving
A pretty paper flower brooch
A letterpress notebook
A handmade concertina notebook (like this one)
Letterpress Memorandum cards
Letterpress Note! cards
Some tiny letterpress TV cards
Hand printed holly decorations (I forgot to put those in the photo though - oops!)

More than £40 worth of hand printed stuff - all for free!

Here's to another year (or two) of blogging!

T&C
The winner will be chosen at random from the comments on Wednesday 17th December using an online random number generator.
All entries welcome - we will post to anywhere in the world (might not arrive before Christmas though...)