Well for what seems the first time in ages, we’ve had a relatively normal Christmas and New Year break.
No bushfires, pandemics, unseasonable hailstorms, surgeries or anything else, just a normal warm sunny Australian summer.
Well, actually, no.
As always at this time of year, some days have been stinking hot, and I’ve used these days when it’s been too hot to work in the garden to blog about a postcard from 1886 I recentlyI bought, plus a couple of speculative posts about the use of female agents by the British special branchat the beginning of the twentieth century.
Other than a morning up at the Athenaeum, where even though we are having a break we open up the building for visiting family history researchers – we recognise that this can be the only time people can get away for a field trip, so we open up for a couple of hours on a Friday morning during January.
Anyway, this was one of my Fridays providing cover, and yes, we did get a visitor, a lady researching her family history who was trying find some house sites – road get renamed, buildings get abandoned and fall down, and we had a good conversation with her about local history and gold miners.
I’m back down at Lake View for a day next week, when hopefully I’ll get the surgery finished, which only leaves one other room in the main house to do...
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