Okay, I am not going to judge a historical romance on its linguistic choices, because honestly, I sometimes think Heyer was totally over-egging the pudding and determined to show off her research and by god, she had spent all that time poring over Pierce Egan and she was not going to waste it -
- so I will cut a certain amount of slack over ( Read more... )

In the poem 'Spring Voices' which is (I suppose) about suburban timidity: The small householder now comes out warily
Afraid of the barrage of sun that shouts cheerily
Spring is massing forces, birds wink in air
Battlemented chestnuts volley green fire.
But really, however much I feel that I am sitting here gazing into the contemporary equivalent of ( Read more... )

Especially right slap bang after a v intense conference plus all the travel hassle and hoohah.
But when this dental stuff has been ticking on for months, with one thing and another, and the receptionist says they can fit one in then and then, and it's not a massive amount of time ahead, I'm inclined to go with it.
But after two longish sessions in ( Read more... )

Made it to the symposium, which was VERY good, and I am like to suppose that Dr Oursin's contributions in question time were appreciated; also there were good conversations over coffee, lunch, tea, and wine.
I perceive that Naomi Mitchison is, at last, becoming A Thing. I can now go around saying that I knew about Mitchison and was writing about ( Read more... )

Have been trying for some while now to Write A Review -
Edited volume, chapters covering a range of disciplines and a wide time/geographical spread -
I will admit, there has been a certain amount of procrastination on this, but also, a certain amount of, I think I have set time aside to crack on with it and -
- the temporary cap on my recently ( Read more... )

At least, that's how it seemed.
There was the flu jab accomplished (arm soreness gradually receding).
I not only finally rang the dental practice for an appointment for my overdue checkup, they managed to fit me in - with a new dentist, the former one having departed - this very week. (No work needed - yay!)
Organised jaunt to Scotland - I am ( Read more... )

What with the whatever-it-was (food poisoning? gastric virus?) on Sunday, and still feeling crappy on Monday, followed by:
Intense two-day conference (even if I wasn't presenting and I wasn't even bopping up and down asking questions).
And the next day a dentist appointment - checkup, small filling in prospect - which I combined with meeting with ( Read more... )

A week ago I had a mild ick - achey muscles, slight queasiness, somewhat raised temperature - that passed off more or less within 24 hours.
However, I'm still feeling more than usually tired and blah.
I possibly noticed this rather less at the beginning of the week because I had Stuff To Do, which, also, might have accounted for any unusual ( Read more... )

Well, I seem to have all the ducks in a row to post off the application for grant of probate.
On the academic side of things, I have done some work on the thing I am doing for a non-specialist audience. Also some research for the thing for the centenary celebration that I am doing.
In Dept of Not Yet Forgotten, I have been asked to read someone's ( Read more... )

Achieved at last: haircut and teeth cleaning (the dental practice had a cancellation).
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Trucking on with executor type things. Thought that while I'm waiting for various information, I might as well start filling in the probate and tax forms in case there's any other info I need. Do they really need to know whether any of my father's cousins are ( Read more... )