Moderately productive

 Down at Lake View, I've finished working on the dining room and am now working on the dining room, which is mostly a case of inventorying and documenting the furniture,

but the furniture did include a seemingly intact 1867 Britannia sewing machine, made in Colchester in England.

I must admit that I hadn't really thought about sewing machines, but like railways and bicycles, they were transformative - making mass produced clothes possible - and incidentally leading to a standardisation of clothing sizes, it also simplified the business of making clothes at home.

The mass production of clothing of course lead to the need to have places to sell them and indirectly to the development of department stores.

Up at the Athenaeum I actually did nothing this week, but we did have a very productive meeting with Molly from the Burke museum, who has agreed, as part of cross shire support, to come in and help deal with a collection of rather tatty bibles and prayer books we have inherited from various deconsecrated churches, and use them to test our collection and disposal policies.

I've also blogged about jrnl, a command line journalling tool for Linux and friends.

Having played with it on a couple of machines I've decided that it would probably be useful addition to the lightweight research machine, to capture a day's activities.

However, it's not all been serious, it was a warm sunny day yesterday, and we played hooky, driving over to Bright for a walk along the river and lunch in a cafe, before driving back the long way via Mount Beauty and Yackandandah...