Comments | fuchsoid: Back to work, briefly.

fuchsoid

Back to work, briefly.

Jan 05, 2009 10:47

The niece turned up, as promised, on New Year's Day, and we had a rather pleasant weekend together, despite slight resurgence of the virus-thing every time I got tired. She is just starting research for her dissertation (orientalist views of Egypt, I think), and I was able to pile her with books (Doughty, Burton, the catalogue from this year's ( Read more... )

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shezan January 5 2009, 10:59:22 UTC

Your niece might be interested to nip to Paris to see the Bonaparte et l'Egypte exhibition at Institut du Monde Arabe. If you book on the Eurostar website and can bear to travel at 7:00 am, there are £26 fares, too...

fuchsoid January 5 2009, 20:30:50 UTC

That does sound interesting. Thanks! Of course, I would have to go with her, since her French is pretty poor. Mine is too, but she doesn't know that.

snowballjane January 5 2009, 13:01:56 UTC

Ooh, I must go and see the clocks. Thanks for the reminder.

Good luck with the leaks!

fuchsoid January 5 2009, 20:31:25 UTC

They've been moved into what looks like a new little gallery on the first floor.

pondhopper January 5 2009, 13:17:58 UTC

Is that Heather in the window box?

I have a leaky washing machine but it doesn't leak all the time so I'm trying to figure out what it likes to wash and what it doesn't. It's really very mysterious. Good luck with your leak problems.

fuchsoid January 5 2009, 20:32:17 UTC

Yes, it's heather; I was rather pleased to find three of the white sort, since it's a good bit harder to find than the ordinary purple.