So they’re replacing the ceiling at work, in the basement. The one that leaks whenever it rains. They’re starting next Wednesday with moving everything out of the way, putting up hoardings and scaffolding it all up. Both sides of the office. Because of this, we (the volunteers) received an email today advising us…actually, telling us, to take a holiday for a month. There’ll be nowhere for us to work after all.
So, Monday will be my last museum day for a month (sad, I know) and I shall have to concentrate on jobs that need doing around the house.
Today I had to try and find something about an agricultural machine that ran on steam and was called a clover seed drawer. I wasn’t very successful. Apparently it was either
- a seed drill like the one that Jethro Tull invented and which popped seeds into the ground automatically; OR
- a big old shaky machine that separated the good seeds from the bad seeds, before they were loaded into a machine like the one that Jethro Tull invented and…etc, etc.
I did find out that a Robert Hunt from Essex, had an award winning one in 1853 which he was selling all over southern Britain. Sadly I did not find out what it actually did or who invented it. The record I was researching had no image, so I couldn’t even get a hint. Anyway, it was a pain and totally not fruitful.
Back to the catalogue cards on Monday and then…a void.
By the way, Carmen is showing no ill effects and continues to…do exactly what she does every day.
