Jo's visit was very helpful, the private view went well and now my life is divided between invigilating the exhibition and preparing images and text for the first issue of my free monthly fanzine-style magazine Kalender.
Kalender takes its name from the Kalender of Shepherdes, a medieval bestseller contemporary with Festial. It was a popular almanac of Christian feast dates, religious advice and woodcuts, laced with generous helpings of astrology and seasonal offerings that had little to do with Christianity. A bizarre mix, apparently.
The style I'm adopting for Kalender veers between a parish magazine and Never Mind the Bollocks.
We're invigilating all day tomorrow and I'm planning to deliver the file to the printer on Monday for same-day transformation into 180 cheap-and-cheerful mags, so Sunday will no doubt be given over to the madness that seems to have become a way of life at present.
