Lovely Chiropidy foot treatment from Tricia. Followed by curry with Doug and Kelly.
Progress on Archives
Bad news is that the Science Museum process doesn’t even meet to review potential acqisitions for a month! However the IET have agreed to take the collection temporarily.
Mary has volunteered to photograph the material.
Good news: Porthcurno Museum (Cornwall, c/o Gareth Parry) have very gratefully received my collection of Transatlantic cable Artefacts.
Archives for Science Museum
Mary packed up the archives beautifully and measured the boxes. Sent photo.
Check out Outlook
Alec Reeves archive
David Robertson arrived today to collect my Alec Reeves archives. He had a very enthusiastic meeting with Mary. Alec was the man who first invented the digital age, OBOE: a wartime bomber navigation system, and a ruthless pursuer of psychic phenomena which might enable him to communicate with an afterlife, but digitally. He was certainly the most “Wacky” guy at the Harlow Labs. David is writing a book on the Digital Age.
Good to see the first of the archive material being disseminated. Next will be the Science Museum collection. A few treasures there, especially when we include all the physical artefacts.
Exhausting day.
Houdini experience.
Confused by the previous night’s “Ground Hog” days experience, (Multiple experience’s of the same actual sleep/awake period) I arose with an agenda to find a “solution”. I tried fastening a loop of rope around the end of the mattress!
Unfortunately during the night this loop somehow became very tight around my toe, and I ended up dangling in a noose, struggling to get free! I felt like Houdini trying to escape from a straight jacket.
Eventually I managed to get free, and make my way further up the bed, to ponder just how on earth I managed to get into such a mess!
Now I’m thinking could the solution be to use a single duvet, to avoid the excess weight of the double duvet hanging over the side(s).
A single duvet made a huge difference.
Busy busy
Incredibly busy few days. Dougal and Kelly visited, then visits by District Nurses, Occupational Therapist, Lucia from Ireland. Running out of pills, so needed to reorder fast!
Paul’s visiting day today.
Much progress on emailing the Artefacts spreadsheet to the Science Museum. (Final step tomorrow).
Exhausted!
Woke this morning feeling extremely tired and weak. Reluctantly cancelled my regular exercise class at St. Isabel Hospice at Welwyn. Took myself to my new electric bed, and slept until 10 pm!
Hoping this is a temporary phenomenon.
Electric bed arrives!
I now have an elecric (hospital) bed), which goes up and down, etc at the touch of the control’s. Taķes a bit of getting used to, but I’m learning.
It’s Curtains for Richard
Huge thanks to Ian and Lavinia for fitting curtains between my main room and the conservatories.