Day Four - Out and About Doing History

[byslantedlight]

My job today was not my job, but taking myself up the road to train in inventorying an NT collection - hurrah! It felt right to be doing history again, and I always like learning things, and it was definitely good to be out of the house and away from my computer, doing something different! And I always like being able to go into the bits of big old manor houses that you're not usually able to go into... *g* So that was happy. And then I drove back past views like this, because the sun had come out and everywhere was green and blue and yellow - also very happy-making. And I finished the rest of today's work at a reasonable hour, and have spent the evening watching the rest of Game of Thrones and hooking me rug (which sounds like slang for something or other, but isn't at all. It is starting to look like a sunflower, too... a woolly sunflower, but a sunflower... *g*

I hope you got your happy on sometime today too!

Comments

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

I remember being totally entranced the first time I saw the fields of yellow rapeseed. They were everywhere!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

They're even more everywhere this year for some reason - I've never seen so much of the stuff. It's pretty, but the scent can be really overpowering in some stages, and the pollen is strong. I was actually told by a farmer's wife that the farmer himself was concerned about how the successive strains seemed to be getting stronger and stronger - they noticed in particular because their daughter suffered from asthma, and one year, which correlated with a particular new strain, she was so bad that she was sent off to stay with friends by the sea, away from it. Apparently the demand for rapeseed oil (canola) has grown hugely in the last few years - though I'm not entirely sure which came first...

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

I always like being able to go into the bits of big old manor houses that you're not usually able to go into
Ohhhhhhh, jealous now...:D

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I know, it's very fab. I used to love working museum basements too, where all the collections that so rarely see the light of day are kept... There's fun things too - in one museum where I did research, the bell of a famous Antarctic research ship was rung every day to call us for morning and afternoon tea!

[murphybabe]

I love that first pic! How fab to be able to see non-public bits of the NT house and collection - that will be amazing! And a sunflower rug will be such a cheerful thing to have - and to have made as well - wonderful!

(Oh. Too many exclamation marks. How else can I indicate happiness?)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It's very cool working in all the secret areas of heritage and museums - I miss those kinds of basements (though why they're almost always basements... *g*)

The sunflower rug is actually a cushion, oddly enough, although realistically I suspect it'll end up just being a square... but maybe I'll put it on the floor!

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

Forgive me not speaking your language, but is NT the National Trust? Sounds like a wonderful job, at any road.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's the National Trust. I was actually going to write it in full, and then I decided not to for various reasons. Wish it was a job (although they pay lousy wages), but it's volunteering... cool volunteering though, I hope!