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Got a catalogue update from Oxbow Academic Texts today
...plus a BAR update and a flyer for a Spanish journal soon to be distributing with Oxbow.
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Lost a chook
Poor Rosa. Cheerful enough one day, gone the next. The Northern winters can be cruel sometimes. -
Canada IV
The next entries cover the main stretch of the trip but are reconstructed from notes since I was that busy Seeing Stuff that I'd be entirely out of go by the time I had a spot to semi-concentrate in.
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Canada II
Typed in similar circumstances to the above entry: I have to eat soon after waking or be siezed with a day's sick-feeling, so I'm coming to enjoy my quiet First Breakfast before the house is awake, watching the light creep in and turn the tall pines from a high mysterious silhouette to a stand of sun-freckled green fronted by birches. I've seen ( Read more... ) -
Canada I
As requested, some bloggery. Staying about 25 minutes out of Toronto, in a house that'd be considered a mansion anywhere in the Old World. It doesn't look much like it did the last time I was here (I was 4) and of course the old folks and the dog are long gone, but I remember the land that counts as 'garden' - a space somewhat larger than the ( Read more... ) -
Things that make my job worthwhile
Still miffed that I've not got out on site this year (yet), but the sample processing with the new grid system really is crazy. Anyway, peculiar lack of student minions today and so naturally I find the shiniest thing from the samples so far: three black stone (?jet) beads, about the size of my little-fingernail. Then the county archaeologist ( Read more... ) -
Huh.
It shows how little news really does get over the Atlantic that I didn't hear about Senator Davis' 13-hour stand (literally) against the State of Texas until this afternoon. Reckon there are some American heroes left after all. -
Snow!
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeThanks to everyone who sent me official oldering wishes, too. Internet is currently intermittent at home, which makes for difficulties in replying to anything longer than a few sentences. It's rapidly getting lighter, alas, but yesterday I saw a snowbow ( Read more... ) -
[prods sloooow library internets]
So. Internets broke last Sunday, and after some wailing and company-pestering it looks like my lodge-family'll have to wait until 2013 for a new router (this sounds odd to me, but I'm no techie and all I know is I have no internet at home and it's not my hardware to prod ( Read more... )