The block's been sat on the shelf by the radiator since Sunday and it's gone slightly banana on me. Not a lot, you'd feel it more than see it, but when you're rolling the ink across it you get this patch down the middle that grabs more than the rest.

I could re-mount it. I know I could. I've a sheet of 6mm ply in the shed doing nothing.

But I've been pulling proofs off it all week and honestly the patch is doing something I like. It's the heron's back, where the water breaks behind him, and the ink sits heavier there so you get this darker mass right where I'd have spent an hour stippling trying to fake it. So I'm leaving it. I've written "warp" on the back of the block in pencil so future me knows it wasn't a mistake, and I'm carrying on.

The thing nobody tells you starting out is how much of this job is just deciding which accidents to keep. I spent my first few years chasing flat blocks and clean edges and dead-level pressure and I got prints that were technically right and had nothing in them. Now I'm ringing the studio with an aul Calor heater and hoping the lino takes a notion.

Anyway. Banging out the last of the run tomorrow morning before the small lad's match, so if it's all gone sideways by then I'll know the heater won the argument.