This Week ...
The weather ... a cloudy, could-do-anything sort of morning.
I am wearing ... mismatched pyjamas. Blue bottom half and pink top half.
I am reading ... When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies, by Andy Beckett, and North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
I am creating ... the first sleeve of my cotton cardigan. Front trim and neckband are done.
I am listening ... to Star showering. Oops! She has just discovered she has no towel.
I am watching ... Upstairs, Downstairs Series 4. I watched North and South last week (now I have to read the book!) and I am looking for something else to download. I think maybe it will be Brideshead Revisited. I have read the book but never seen the TV version, and I know it earned rave reviews both at the time and since.
I am enjoying ... reading to Cherub. We have a nice routine of a picture book, her school reading book, and a chapter from a longer book before bed every night. She is very into Beverley Cleary's Ramona, and we have just started Ramona the Brave, the third book in the series.
I am planning ... how to fit 13 weeks of archive course into 10. It will probably take me the whole day, but by the end I should hopefully have a complete checklist of tasks for each week set up on Evernote. I need to get ahead as we will be on holiday in Spain during the two weeks meant for working on final assignments, and also know I will not be able to get as much done once the girls finish school for the summer.
Learning notes ... the first of Angel's GCSE exams is this morning - English Language. Tomorrow she has RE, on Wednesday the second English Language paper, and on Thursday biology. On Friday she and I are going to the school she is moving to in September to meet the deputy head of Sixth Form, so she can get to know us and explain more about how Sixth Form will work to Angel.
Cherub ... has had a rotten cold for the past few days. Not so bad during the day, but she has been waking up during the night with a nasty cough. Now she has kindly passed it on to me.
On the calendar ...
Today: First day of GCSEs for Angel, first day of second archive course module for me.
Wednesday: Lunch at my mother's and a chance to catch up with an old friend who is staying with her.
Saturday: Attending the funeral of the pastor of our neighbours' old church, who died too soon due to an aggressive and untreatable brain tumour. Band concert in the evening.
On the menu ...
Today: Baked potatoes and chilli
Tuesday: Lamb steaks and potato wedges
Wednesday: Marinated chicken
Thursday: Fish and chips
Friday: Pasta with pesto and creme fraiche
Saturday: Burgers
Sunday: Roast chicken
On my to-do list ... The book decluttering that didn't happen last week. Also, I have a job application to finish off and submit. Yikes! It is for a part time cataloguing job in another local archive, which sounds pretty much ideal - the sort of job that rarely comes up, yet alone part time and in such a convenient location.
Monday, May 16, 2011
This Week: 16th May 2011
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2 comments:
Good luck with the archive cataloguing post.
I'm doing similar work as a volunteer in Richmond local studies library. So ideal for a retired indexer and librarian whose family has been in the area for about 110 years.
Quite often I end up helping researchers, often from personal knowledge as well as written sources.
The work done by volunteers would never be done otherwise, some of us are retired staff, others interested in local history.
We haven't heard much about house hunting but don't think LB will be back in the picture. If it was, I would be in touch with you.
Hope the week went well, you and Cherub both feel better and good luck with the exams and job application.
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