Scrappy but productive

 This week's been a scrappy but productive week - in between a visit to the eye hospital - nothing serious, last time I had my eyes tested the optometerist noticed that the pressure in my eyes seemed to be going up every year, and it needed to be checked out.

As it was it was nothing serious - my corneas have become a little thicker over the years, and the standard optometrist's test does not allow for this and tends to produce higher than normal readings. Using a more accurate specialist test showed that everying was more or less normal, which was a relief.

My other encounter with the medical profession this week was my annual flu shot - I had it done at the pharmacy in Yackandandah as its usually pretty quiet and anyway it's nice to drive over to Yack to have a coffee in the autumn sunshine - and it is autumn. 

We've hit that point where it flips over from being the tail end of summer to early autumn with chilly mornings and sunny golden days, and on the day I went for an early morning bike ride it was certainly chilly and perhaps time to stop riding in shorts in the mornings.

Workwise, I've started on the prayerbooks at the Athenaeum, as well as doing as much as I can with the story of how a book from a circulating library in Norwich ended up at the Athenaeum.

I also blogged about my discovery of Sir Frizzle Pumpkin, the little known subculture of Edwardian Flappers, and did a little more on the use of Pig Latin to obfuscate messages on postcards in the nineteenth century

In among all of this I've managed two or three afternoons working in the garden, something I find good for my soul, even if I'm not the world's  most competent gardener...