More weirdness from the Harry Ransom Center - okay, when I was there I was nose-down in the British Sexology Society/George Ives collections and a few other related things, so I never really delved into the bizarre depths: collection of famous people's hair compiled by the Romantic poet and essayist Leigh Hunt: 'Hunt's interest in hair is well ( Read more... )

And it was, overall, a good one.
(Though I was somewhat narked that both kinds of edibles at the closing reception had cheese in - honestly, who puts cheese in a chicken pasty thing? I don't even - so I couldn't fill up on those. Was obliged instead to have a v indifferent meal at a place I had noticed in the next block to the B&B, having nixed the ( 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... )

I now have a hair appointment (tomorrow, and one can now book an appointment with one's favoured stylist online), a doctor's appointment (early next month), and dental hygienist session in the fairly distant future, because they are booked solid (but will let me know if there's a cancellation before then).
On my last visit to the dental practice I ( Read more... )

(With added hassle from Thames Water.)
I finally got a grip and made appointments for 3 personal maintenance things, two of which I had been having nagging messages about:
Hair cut! because I was looking more and more like the Dulux sheepdog, an allusion which is probably only meaningful to UKians of a certain generation. Now done.
Eye test: which ( Read more... )

(Well, busy by my recent standards, anyway.)
Today: finally rang my hairdressers to see if my stylist had an appointment this week as I was beginning to resemble the Dulux sheepdog - she did, one only, this afternoon.
This meant that I didn't need to go to a local post office as there is one in the same block as my hairdressers.
Rang the washing ( Read more... )

Shutting Down Nosey Strangers.
I mentioned the highly inappropriate and intrusive query about my black eye some while since.
And I particularly noted this comment as being relevant to my experience: And how would you feel if random strangers kept asking what your hairstyle means, since you choose to go out in public with it so you must expect ( Read more... )

(This is less of a New Year thing than finally having time to do all the stuff that was on hold before Christmas because of competing pressures.)
So, anyway, I finally got my hair cut this afternoon (and managed to combine this with a necessary bank-trip), and have booked dental and optician's appointments.
I have also made enquiries as to WOT ( Read more... )

Felling a bit blah at the moment, so have put myself into
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