And I finally got to document the hip bath

 Quite a busy few days.

Down at Lake View I finished the study and the Henry Handel Richardson memorabilia, meaning that I have now finished the main house and am now working in the external kitchen block.

The kitchen block lacks power sockets which makes data capture a challenge. I did think of using the minimalist research machine to do the data capture, but for the moment have settled on an old school solution - an A4 notebook and a series of scribbled notes to which I add comments as I go - basically the same methodology as I started with in Dow’s back in 2017.

Working in the kitchen has meant that I finally got to document our rather grubby example of a hip bath 

Basically a battered example of a nineteenth century enamelled hip bath.

Up at the Athenaeum, I’m grinding through the book list identifying unique publishers, and once I’ve done that I’ll add in synonyms eg Longman Green and Co is an earlier version of Longman’s, and that way we will hopefully avoid the confusion caused by people making up abbreviations such as randomly abbreviating Conan Doyle’s publisher Simpkins Marshall and Kent to a fairly meaningless’Kent’.

After my problems photographing a typewriter serial number I bought myself an incredibly cheap USB endoscope, which is hopefully going to make photographing serial numbers and other labels in awkward places that little bit easier.

Besides that I’ve been spending more time than I intended on Katherine Scragg.

The case has got under my skin a bit, and I should, along with the case of Fanny Elizabeth Bull write something about how assaults on middle class women were handled as opposed to cases like that of Harriet Daniel’s that were thrown out, perhaps because they were seen as the lower orders doing what happened on Saturday night behind the Dog and Duck in a first class railway carriage…