I'm very grateful for all the sage advice received apropos of sluggish computer.
In the light of its all looking rather All More Complicated than I initially anticipated -
- plus, I am not entirely noted for my manual dexterity -
- and I do not have a handy more adept computer person available (and after the dire saga of the Cowboy Computer ( Read more... )

Okay, this is not a World-Shattering Historical Discovery, but nonetheless it gratified me.
I am currently looking into a mid-Victorian case of medical awfulness which is now well-known and positively iconic about Dreadful Victorian Docs, but at the time it was all pretty hushed, outside the fierce hoohah that went on inside medical societies and ( Read more... )

I thought I'd mentioned this some while ago, but apparently not, or rather, last year I did a whinge about not having heard that there was a symposium on Naomi Mitchison happening (the shortness of the notice when I heard about it and the time and place making it not possible even to go) and I was writing about her Before It Was Cool.
And I think I ( Read more... )

Dept of Serendipity: discovered that I had already ironed in my last massive ironing session the two tops one or other of which I intend wearing for giving a paper later this week.
Also, in Dept of Things I Should Have Remembered: the existence of an article I did c. 20 years ago bits of which I can reasonably recycle for A Thing I have been asked ( Read more... )

Heavy mist almost amounting to fog this morning, still a little hazy by the pm but visibility okay. Several takers for the walk, but, although I have been thinking I am perhaps not on my top form at present, was well out in front, and chatting to the trainer (who has been there for years). Gratifying.
Also, doing Flex and Stretch this morning, came ( Read more... )

Looking at the posters for the zumba classes at the local community centre, of which several adorn the approach to the pocket park behind the house, I discover that I have aged out of the possibility of going to these, as beyond a certain age-group they cannot get insurance.
(It is possibly the thought that zumba classes require insurance that puts ( Read more... )

Almost creepily apologetic email from BrGas this evening, indicating that they have now fixed my account and I am enabled to enter meter readings online.

I am not used to getting anything but catharsis from throwing a strop: so this is very gratifying.

Also gratifying (o hey, is this turning into My Friday Good Things?):

Visit to the ( Read more... )

Since the dungeon flamed with light and my chains fell off, I have actually done a few things rather than lolled around with my feet up, one of which was bang out a panel proposal for the Ginormous Triennial Women's History Conference and post it in a couple of places.

Already have several paper offers!

Wheeeeee!!!

I have also, because that is the ( Read more... )

After far too long, the database for which I do the content management has now been signed off as no longer doing Weird Stuff that we don't like, and can now be updated. I have a vast stack of emendations and additions, but at least I can now do them and don't have to make emollient responses to people about why the information on the public ( Read more... )