A typographer who strayed. Not a doctor. Now writing about old working lives – printers, sailors, a painter-engraver next. Keeping one eye on the politics of almost everything while waiting for the coming inferno.

Books etc at thingsturnedup.uk

Header is a detail of a rockface from 'St Jerome penitent in the Wilderness', engraved by Albrecht Dürer in about 1496

Avatar is me accidentally