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Neil
@vulcangiant.bsky.social
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Irish Engineer & Project Manager working in the Food Industry and fan of all things analogue and arty! 🏳️‍🌈

📃Typewriters, pens, film photography, stationary geekery, books, baking, food reviews, textiles and various forms of art
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#NowReading : Butter, by Asako Yuzuki

I've been really enjoying this - it's brilliant. And I've been asked about it by three strangers in coffee shops and on the train! Haven't had strangers ask me about what I'm reading in years - seems to be on lots of people's TBR lists

#Books #WhatImReading
A copy of Butter by Asako Yuzuki, with a bright yellow cover with a bloodstained cow on it, resting on a table. A hand painted mug showing alien abduction is beside it - my painting skills do not quite match my ambitions!
March 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Time to start @garethdennis.bsky.social's new book now it's finally arrived!

Very excited to get read this - trains are great and we should have more 🚂
An image of Gareth Dennis' new book, entitled "How The Railways Will Fix The Future", with a Scottish Parliament bookmark
November 15, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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Finally got around to framing my last linocut print - this was printed with Cranfield Caligo inks, with 2 blocks and a couple of masks. My first time printing with masks and registration to think about!

I made this over the course of about 8 hours - a fun project ☺️

#Art #Linocut #Linoprint
A linoprint showing a sunrise, with a bird about to eat a worm from an apple in the foreground, framed in a black frame.
November 10, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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Been doing some minor maintenance of my (second favourite) typewriter - a Smith Corona Corsair, from the 1960's. Don't think this machine has ever been cleaned internally! All cleaned down and degunked with mineral spirit, and working much more smoothly now 😊
#typewriter #analogue
A view of the mechanisms at the back of the carriage of my Smith Corona Corsair, with the carriage cover removed The main body of the typewriter removed from the casing, with tools laid around it, and a little egg cup with cotton swabs and mineral spirit for cleaning the mechanisms and type slugs - don't use any container you've had mineral spirit in for food again! The bottom case of the typewriter, with the body removed. I've seen worse but there's definitely a few decades of grime under there! The Corsair has these odd little metal brackets to hold the body in place in the case - they make getting the case on and off quite challenging The typewriter before cleaning - I've always loved the blue colour!
October 26, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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If you see this, quite post a bridge.
My photograph of the famous bridge in Ironbridge, Shropshire - the world's first iron bridge, built in 1779.
October 25, 2024 at 9:58 PM