Today my holiday was put on hold and my work started. The point of coming to England was to go to the archives at the Scott Polar Research Institute. I need to study the dairies of Scott's Northern Party for the period of there sledging at Evans Coves Antarctic--January to March 1912. This is my third visit to the archives trying to put together the details of the six week summer sledging trip that ended in the six members of the Northern Party being abandoned and surviving an antarctic winter in a snow cave.
The second visit in 2011 provided me with a lot of the information I needed but I still need to to come back again. However I had problems with the Insurance companies and couldn't travel overseas. This meant putting my research on hold. In reality stuffing all the papers into boxes stowing them on the top shelf in my spare wardrobe. That was until Probus came up with an insurance that would cover me. So here I am in Cambridge hopefully getting all the material to finish the job.
Today I completed my first day at a readers desk in the archives. Nine thirty to one , and hour off for lunch then two to five--six and half hours reading and writing. And I did it. I was bit worried if I could hack the pace of full days work. Something I haven't really done since I retired in 2000.
Now all I have to do is another nine days and I can fly to Hong Kong for a holiday.
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