This is the only print that I managed to make during 1987. And it only got to be born because I had a committment to make it - the printmaker's circle at our local community centre was making a calendar, and I had been assigned 'August'.

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There were a few reasons for the lack of productivity: working at home with two little babies around wasn't exactly the most ideal of working conditions; making a living teaching English was taking up a lot of time and energy; then in addition to these distractions I had let myself get off on another tangent - this time setting up a small business making and marketing wooden toys of my own design.

Who me, a printmaker?