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An update for Please donate to save Hawkspring Drug and Alcohol Support Services

Aug 5 2015

Thank you so much to all the people who have so far donated to our appeal to keep our doors open and help save more lives.  The good news we want to share with you is that through our media campaigning, we now have a possible lifeline, someone has come forward to offer us a possible merger, however, what we now need to do is raise enough money to bridge this gap and keep in business for a few more months whilst the merger process takes place, so please share our crowd funding appeal with your friends, collegues and family to help us reach our target.

7 marathons over 7 days

An update for Direct Transitioning Help

Aug 4 2015

On 5th September 2015 Chris Spray and Richard Whitehouse will be challenging themselves to a physical feat that surpasses anything they’ve tried before. They will be running, walking and crawling the length of Offa’s Dyke path, 285 km, in just seven days. That’s 7 Marathons in 7 consecutive days. What’s more this route incorporates some quite rugged landscape; the Black Mountains, the Brecon Beacons and the Clwydian Hills in North Wales. Total Ascent is 29,000 feet, more than the height of Everest.
The boys will be consuming 6000 calories a day and no doubt will keep Scholl in business with a large supply of blister plasters.
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They will be attempting this challenge for our chosen charity, Crossroads Retreats and partnering with Holistic Dreams, a phenomenal emerging organisation that helps service personnel transition into civilian life. You can read more about these causes below.
We will be completely grateful if you are able to support this challenge with either some sponsorship or to join us on part of the route as we thrash through Wales from South to North Coast.
The British Army has kindly offered a support vehicle and a small team to support this challenge with logistics. This is a great help as Chris and Richard can now concentrate on the energetic task of training ( Between them Chris and Rich are cycling 50km a day and running / walking over 100 miles a week at present).
As the challenge develops we will update this page and during the challenge we will post a tracker here of our progress.

Well done everyone

An update for Catacombs of Terror! by Stanley Donwood

Aug 3 2015

Damn fine effort. @StanleyDonwood

£45 to go

An update for Catacombs of Terror! by Stanley Donwood

Aug 3 2015

Just £45 to go to hit our target. But don't forget that if we go over, I get a jolly decent lunch with Sterling Bland. Can I suggest you give till it hurts. Before midnight. 

Scratter here! Dicky Scratter!

An update for Catacombs of Terror! by Stanley Donwood

Aug 2 2015

I don't believe it!

Bland regained consciousness after lunch and came to my club where he informed me he has secured an arrangement with Tangent Books of Bristol to co-publish Donwood's 'classic' Catacombs of Terror!

According to Bland, Tangent Books will pay for the design and typesetting and share the print cost of the book if Scratter & Pomace meet Blimfield's and Bland's fees. Tangent seem to think the book will be popular in The Americas. I can't imagine why. In short, it means we have to raise another £180 with a day to go.

Bland assures me that Donwood has many admirers who will rally to the cause. He says there may even be a small surplus - enough for lunch!

Scratter here!

An update for Catacombs of Terror! by Stanley Donwood

Aug 2 2015

Enjoyed an excellent lunch with Sterling Bland. I left him sleeping like a baby. Shame we couldn't remove him from the restaurant first. Anyway, before he passed out Bland told me that he's been contacted by a 'major publisher' who is interested if partnershing with Scratter & Pomace to publish Donwood's 'classic'.

'The deal is all but done, Dicky,' he assured me as he slid from his chair.

And apparently the case of Somerset Farmhouse Cider I sent that fella Donwood was well received.

Onwards and upwards!

Or downwards in Bland's case. Chin-chin.

@StanleyDonwood

Stanley Donwood: the Artist, the Man

An update for Catacombs of Terror! by Stanley Donwood

Aug 1 2015

Sometimes known as the 'sixth member' of Radiohead, Stanley Donwood is the artist responsible for the band's album artwork over the last 20 years and also the artwork for Glastonbury Festival. An internationally renowned and exhibited artist, Donwood has also penned two collections of short stories, both published by Tangent Books, and another published by Faber. 
 

The original edition of Catacombs of Terror! was written after a £5 bet in a pub that Donwood couldn't write 50,000 words in a month. The new, revised, and heavily edited (see original manuscript offered as one of our rewards!) edition will make use of Donwood's Grammy award-winning eye for design and packaging and features a cover designed by Chris Hopewell of Jacknife Prints in Bristol. It's going to be a work of pulp-fictitious art! 

Pre-order a copy or screenprint of Jacknife's artwork here:
https://www.fundsurfer.com/project/catacombs-of-terror-by-stanley-donwood

Don't forget, all pledges come with a limited edition Tangent Books tote too. 

Free tote bag with all pledges

An update for Catacombs of Terror! by Stanley Donwood

Jul 31 2015

We are very pleased to announce that every pre-order will be accompanied by a splendid, hot-off-the-press Tangent Books tote! These limited edition totes will feature the Tangent Books logo in black on a natural canvas background. So you can now cart your copy of Catacombs of Terror! round in style. 

Remember, there's still time to pre-order a copy of Catacombs of Terror! and receive your tote too.

Hlp get this pulp fiction 'classic' back in print.

https://www.fundsurfer.com/project/catacombs-of-terror-by-stanley-donwood

Original manuscript sold!

An update for Catacombs of Terror! by Stanley Donwood

Jul 31 2015

The original Catacombs of Terror! manuscript, signed by Stanley Donwood, has been bought for £500. 

Scratter here! Dicky Scratter!

An update for Catacombs of Terror! by Stanley Donwood

Jul 30 2015

In answer to a few queries, we are definitely publishing Catacombs of Terror! so you will receive your reward even if we don't hit the overall funding target. This is a Take What You Get Project, so it's effectively a means of you pre-ordering the new edition of Catacombs of Terror! or choosing one of the other rewards.

Some people have also asked if Richard 'Dicky' Scratter is a real person. They've suggested that Scratter & Pomace is not a genuine publishing house and that the whole thing is an elaborate facade created by cider-crazed fools. They want to know about the role of Tangent Books and they've demanded to be told why Sterling Bland (see video) bears such a strong resemblance to long-time Stanley Donwood collaborator Ric Jerrom.

Seasoned Donwood-watchers have even suggested that the video was shot and edited under Donwood's direction and that far from having no interest in the project, Stanley Donwood in fact developed the whole plot of lost manuscript, Solsbury Hill, Dicky Scratter and so forth.

To those people we say: why would anyone rewrite a book, commission a brilliant cover artist, concoct an elaborate story about how the book came into being, organise a video shoot with a fictitious character in the basement of a Bath bookshop and then turn the whole thing into a crowdfunding campaign?

Why?

I hope that clears everything up.