Very little it seems! I can't belive I haven't blogged since Christmas - has so little happened? In a way - yes!
Work continues as usual. I work part time as a cover teacher which means I take any lesson in any subject for any absent teacher. Quite challenging and, in fact, quite mind numbing as expectations of the amount of work they will do is quite low. Sad that morale is so low really.
Howver outside school, life is better. Although I have given up leading IA tours in Britain and abroad, I have been 'revisiting' cities abroad and findig that there is so much available on line which helps me to research industrial history. I have been transported back to Barcelona, Budapest and Prague as I have been reviewing my tour guides to those cities. Time to get my notes edited and sorted for publication as I intended all those years ago when I first did the research for the tours. That should be a resolve for 2012 but we will see.
I have also been doing much more family history. The Mormon Family History Centre at Hyde Park is closed long term for refurbishment, no word yet of when they reopen. Their records have been moved to the National archive in Kew which is a slow and difficult journey for me and so I have taken to going to the London Metropolitan Archives to look at Ancestry for free.
Obviously they feature London records there and not many of my relatives are London-based but its not too bad a journey there. Thank Heavens for the Freedom Pass and free travel all over London! I have been looking at records for other people who are compiling family histories, either for books or personal interest.
Spring is definately here and with the longer days, I fell more alert and ready for the new challenges I thought I would face last year.
PS I had forgotten to say how much I enjoy Blogland in a vicarious way. Glad to hear news of 'friends' whose lives are so different from my own.
