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croissantkatie) wrote2013-09-12 05:54 pm
croissantkatie) wrote2013-09-12 05:54 pm
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So my summer break is nearly over. I go back to university a week on Saturday. I am freaking out about this a bit even though I'm looking forward to going back. History! And I'm super excited about all my modules and y'know, not living in my old accommodation. Clean kitchen! Working boiler! No house mates who will smoke cigars inside! And yet my heart is beating really fast and I can practically taste the anxiety in the back of my throat. So yeah. Fantastic.
I was not very good at doing stuff at the beginning of my break. I hadn't thought about it in advance. But once I got things sorted it was pretty good. I've been doing volunteering every week at my local museum, the one I helped out at during my gap year. I've been doing all sorts of stuff. I photographed a bunch of stuff in their collection. I did watches, clocks, bottles and toys. The watches were awesome because my Pops (paternal grandfather) used to make watches as a hobby so we have a bunch of bits and pieces of old watches. And bottles was surprisingly cool because they had a bunch of old bottles from an off licence in town which still exists. Toys was a mixed bag as it included a number of dolls (I have a slight phobia) but there were also a bunch of jigsaws and stuff which I got to put together. Including this awesome illustrated history of England. It was rather quaint. And not really a proper jigsaw as the pieces were all roughly the same shape so I had to put it together based on my knowledge of what order stuff happened in history. It was pretty amusing. I also went through their digital record of their parish photos which yielded an old photo of my house I'd never seen before. I think it's the earliest one I've seen. I also went through a bunch of "miscellaneous papers" and sorted them by parish. There were some great civil war propaganda pamphlets in there. I've also been going through old Kelly's directories and making a database of all the shops in town. My favourite being the "fancy draper." I also checked the entries for my village. To no one's surprise, my boss's family were in both the 1940 and 1936 indexes. This is not a surprise because them having a shop in the village can be traced back to the 1800s, and them living here back further. Anyway yeah. That's what I've been doing at the museum.
I have also been working some shifts at my old job! I've covered shifts for some of the new weekend girls (they are no longer new, they've all been there a year at least now) when they've been away on holiday. And also my boss's wife has been having regular appointments at the hospital, so I've been going in every Friday to cover her for that. I've missed it there a lot. I just feel at home there. It's not been particularly busy (it never is) so I've been reading a book I got on Joan of Arc. It's fascinating. It's all about female heroism and how it's perceived and how that perception has changed. I'm still a bit irritated we never got to cover her properly in my Hundred Years War module, but we didn't cover anything properly in that module.
And I'm going to end my rambly not really about anything post now. Yay.
I was not very good at doing stuff at the beginning of my break. I hadn't thought about it in advance. But once I got things sorted it was pretty good. I've been doing volunteering every week at my local museum, the one I helped out at during my gap year. I've been doing all sorts of stuff. I photographed a bunch of stuff in their collection. I did watches, clocks, bottles and toys. The watches were awesome because my Pops (paternal grandfather) used to make watches as a hobby so we have a bunch of bits and pieces of old watches. And bottles was surprisingly cool because they had a bunch of old bottles from an off licence in town which still exists. Toys was a mixed bag as it included a number of dolls (I have a slight phobia) but there were also a bunch of jigsaws and stuff which I got to put together. Including this awesome illustrated history of England. It was rather quaint. And not really a proper jigsaw as the pieces were all roughly the same shape so I had to put it together based on my knowledge of what order stuff happened in history. It was pretty amusing. I also went through their digital record of their parish photos which yielded an old photo of my house I'd never seen before. I think it's the earliest one I've seen. I also went through a bunch of "miscellaneous papers" and sorted them by parish. There were some great civil war propaganda pamphlets in there. I've also been going through old Kelly's directories and making a database of all the shops in town. My favourite being the "fancy draper." I also checked the entries for my village. To no one's surprise, my boss's family were in both the 1940 and 1936 indexes. This is not a surprise because them having a shop in the village can be traced back to the 1800s, and them living here back further. Anyway yeah. That's what I've been doing at the museum.
I have also been working some shifts at my old job! I've covered shifts for some of the new weekend girls (they are no longer new, they've all been there a year at least now) when they've been away on holiday. And also my boss's wife has been having regular appointments at the hospital, so I've been going in every Friday to cover her for that. I've missed it there a lot. I just feel at home there. It's not been particularly busy (it never is) so I've been reading a book I got on Joan of Arc. It's fascinating. It's all about female heroism and how it's perceived and how that perception has changed. I'm still a bit irritated we never got to cover her properly in my Hundred Years War module, but we didn't cover anything properly in that module.
And I'm going to end my rambly not really about anything post now. Yay.