Even jetlagged as I am, my palaeography skillz totally ROOOL: had reader today who wanted help in deciphering various bits of C19th scientist's correspondence, and in all but one instance (which took a bit longer) I got the words Just Like That, to reader's enormous admiration.

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Sitting at home with the lurghi still upon me (though gradually taking its leave), in that annoying state in which I feel reasonably well while sitting still, until I try to do anything of even moderate strenuousness, when I realise that I am still Not Better.

Therefore a certain amount of idle fossicking around the net is taking place. In the ( Read more... )