Still spinning like a top
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arkessianI have set up a FaceBook Messenger group (there are some valid purposes for the Evil Empire) so that if I get 'the call' I can send up a flare saying 'drive me to Birmingham PDQ?' and somebody will step forward. (I also have a couple of taxi firms in reserve...)
The Latin Manorial Court Rolls are ongoing and requiring me to learn more than any reasonable person needs to know about 17th century property law, New Latin palaeography and abbreviation symbols. Anyone know what 'inframentonat' means? There may be letters missing in there -- I'm thinking 'inframentionat<?>' as in 'mentioned below' but can't find any corroboration. We now have a grand total of 19 pages to deal with (every other sensible volunteer having run screaming for the hills).
I'm in a reading slump. Things recommended by people whose judgement I trust, or written by people who reliably entertain me... not working at all. I start something and find the premise underwhelming, or I find myself focussing on word craft and not story. Things touted as 'light-hearted amusement' leave me cold and bored, or shouting at the walls that 'nobody is that stupid!' (Current government excepted).
The slump will pass; I've been here before. It's often a precursor to writing myself, so fingers crossed.
In the meantime, I have a shedload of bureaucratic dragons to tame. First, constructing an application for a disability benefit; if I can't walk 50m reliably, I ought to be able to get it, except the current Government (of course) has made the hurdles as high as possible so I need to get the application exactly right. Also, re-applying for my driving licence after 6 months without being shocked by my ICD. I need first to get my Cardiologist to sign a form saying I haven't been shocked, which means he needs to ask the 'Device Clinic', who will have no idea because they have not yet managed to implement remote monitoring for me. Once we've overcome that problem, I need to send a paper form to the licensing authority who (UK residents may know) have not been performing particularly well lately, so the delay in them issuing a new licence could be somewhere between weeks and years.
In good news, my cats love me. And the sun keeps shining...
The Latin Manorial Court Rolls are ongoing and requiring me to learn more than any reasonable person needs to know about 17th century property law, New Latin palaeography and abbreviation symbols. Anyone know what 'inframentonat' means? There may be letters missing in there -- I'm thinking 'inframentionat<?>' as in 'mentioned below' but can't find any corroboration. We now have a grand total of 19 pages to deal with (every other sensible volunteer having run screaming for the hills).
I'm in a reading slump. Things recommended by people whose judgement I trust, or written by people who reliably entertain me... not working at all. I start something and find the premise underwhelming, or I find myself focussing on word craft and not story. Things touted as 'light-hearted amusement' leave me cold and bored, or shouting at the walls that 'nobody is that stupid!' (Current government excepted).
The slump will pass; I've been here before. It's often a precursor to writing myself, so fingers crossed.
In the meantime, I have a shedload of bureaucratic dragons to tame. First, constructing an application for a disability benefit; if I can't walk 50m reliably, I ought to be able to get it, except the current Government (of course) has made the hurdles as high as possible so I need to get the application exactly right. Also, re-applying for my driving licence after 6 months without being shocked by my ICD. I need first to get my Cardiologist to sign a form saying I haven't been shocked, which means he needs to ask the 'Device Clinic', who will have no idea because they have not yet managed to implement remote monitoring for me. Once we've overcome that problem, I need to send a paper form to the licensing authority who (UK residents may know) have not been performing particularly well lately, so the delay in them issuing a new licence could be somewhere between weeks and years.
In good news, my cats love me. And the sun keeps shining...
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Date: 2022-03-24 09:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2022-03-25 12:52 am (UTC)https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ColmAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=inframentonat
it's very clearly not a 't' - it's a 'c' with a marker above.
Ditto
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6NthAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA322&lpg=PA322&dq=inframentonat
and
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=M42wIfr90SsC&pg=PT245&lpg=PT245&dq=inframentonat
I have no idea what this resolves to - I can never remember latin abbreviations and have not needed them in several decades...
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Date: 2022-03-25 09:59 am (UTC)Thanks!