Spent the weekend travelling to Church Stretton in Shropshire to see Lucy and Rachel. What a gorgeous place; we took a shuttle up up up into the hills of the Long Mynd, visited an historic lead mine (partially restored buildings and incredibly interested/helpful volunteers) where we walked underground and met a BAT! We were in its territory, after all. A beautiful part of England on the Welsh borders. Worth a revisit!
I learned (or rather, had reinforced) how much I love pub meals, I had reinforced that the food in England is pretty darned fantastic, that rumours of the ickyness of English food are erroneous, and that requiring gluten free foods has not yet posed a problem wherever I have eaten. All wonderful.
Lucy and I went to the local theatre to watch a British farce...the play was fine...the toupee on the fellow selling programs...my goodness, what was that? Bald is BEE-AUTIFUL fellas! No toupee required!
Then back to Chawton on the train via Winchester where I strolled by Jamie Oliver's new place, Union Jack's. Since it is a pizza place, did not stop for a meal (read about gluten avoidance above). And, I was tired and wanted to get back to Chawton.
Bought some groceries to last through to Saturday, got the bus to Chawton, made a curried chicken meal to share with Sarah, Education Officer at CHL (who has bell ringing practice on Monday nights so I offered to provide her with a meal). Sarah and I had our yummy curry. She went off to bell ringing and I sat on our front steps listening to the bells and the birds. Quite absolutely perfect.
Today I was back at the Jane Austen House Museum to finish going through the JA Society news bulletins since 1949 for mentions of textiles. I studied some of the pieces more closely, and tried to figure out how to provide the Museum with something of use about their textile collection in the limited time I have here. I think a person could do that project full time for a number of months, or for a thesis.
Tomorrow will be my last day in the Reading Room (Thursday to Bournemouth; Friday at JAHM) to wrap up what I want to do here in terms of the invalid's dietary. The research has gone better than I hoped; I have developed a list of questions arising that I will work into the assignment possibilities for students this coming year, have outlined the articles I will write in July, and have prepared presentations for next month and the ICD in September. Such a gift to be able to spend the month here!
I discovered that there will be a conference in Belgium next April entitled, Food in Hospitals: An Historical Perspective. Sent an abstract this morning for consideration for the program (even though the deadline is passed). Regardless of whether I get to present, I plan to attend since it is ideal for my interests.
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