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The work is quite here, spend half my time on make work projects. I Have eight weeks left till I am home and the feeling they will be slow weeks. I'm trying to fill my spare time at work doing research but the internet there is slower yet then what I have in my tent space.
Speaking of research. I've got spit jacks on the brain. Yes this is like the third or fourth posting i've mentioned this but like a said, on the brain. I asked Kes if she mind reviewing my research, when she said yes I went digging threw the material I've collected, dig is the right word. It's a mess of over a hundred image and dozen of random text files cut and pasted from all over the web. Much of it overlaps and repeats and its not organized at all.
Now I'm spending my evenings combing threw it condensing all the key points down to a single point form document. I feel bad about this as I should have been done this before asking Kes to review it as I dare not send it to here in its current state. It has Help as it pointed out some major gaps that needed filling and motivated me to send out a wave of emails to museums and experts. Today one answered, Ivan Day is a well know food historian in England. He also collects and restores clock work spit jacks. He seems to be the only expert on the subject I have found.
In his email he mentioned that if I keep a good eye out on ebay France i can get one cheep. Even gave me 4 links for ones that are on sale now that are from the late 17th to early 18th century and mentioned that the odd 16th century ones come up every so often. It may be cheaper to buy a 400 year old original then make a new one. Don't get me wrong I'm going to make one so I can say I did and it not practical to take and use an original at camping events. It makes me think how common were they? When I started I thought they be a novelty but it seems by the beginning of the 17th century they were a must for any large kitchen, at least in France.
Today caught sight of my poke-a-roo in the form of a US Marine Osprey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-22_Osprey) Lots of people keep telling me they have seen the air craft but no one gotten a picture of it, a picture of it in the air is considered the holy grail shot for the local plane spotters. I was beginning to think it was just a rumor that they were flying them here at all. Walking back from work today saw one taking off, of course I didn't have a camera with me. I'll have to start carrying it around again.
Speaking of research. I've got spit jacks on the brain. Yes this is like the third or fourth posting i've mentioned this but like a said, on the brain. I asked Kes if she mind reviewing my research, when she said yes I went digging threw the material I've collected, dig is the right word. It's a mess of over a hundred image and dozen of random text files cut and pasted from all over the web. Much of it overlaps and repeats and its not organized at all.
Now I'm spending my evenings combing threw it condensing all the key points down to a single point form document. I feel bad about this as I should have been done this before asking Kes to review it as I dare not send it to here in its current state. It has Help as it pointed out some major gaps that needed filling and motivated me to send out a wave of emails to museums and experts. Today one answered, Ivan Day is a well know food historian in England. He also collects and restores clock work spit jacks. He seems to be the only expert on the subject I have found.
In his email he mentioned that if I keep a good eye out on ebay France i can get one cheep. Even gave me 4 links for ones that are on sale now that are from the late 17th to early 18th century and mentioned that the odd 16th century ones come up every so often. It may be cheaper to buy a 400 year old original then make a new one. Don't get me wrong I'm going to make one so I can say I did and it not practical to take and use an original at camping events. It makes me think how common were they? When I started I thought they be a novelty but it seems by the beginning of the 17th century they were a must for any large kitchen, at least in France.
Today caught sight of my poke-a-roo in the form of a US Marine Osprey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-22_Osprey) Lots of people keep telling me they have seen the air craft but no one gotten a picture of it, a picture of it in the air is considered the holy grail shot for the local plane spotters. I was beginning to think it was just a rumor that they were flying them here at all. Walking back from work today saw one taking off, of course I didn't have a camera with me. I'll have to start carrying it around again.