Normal library day from 9:30-16:45. Before the day I went out for photos. The weather was not good. I wish I had taken photos on a fine day. After the day, I also went out for photos. Probably one of the best shots. Red hot poker. They loo…

The library was open just like on Sunday, from 11:00-16:45. I read epitaphs and a riddle: O what am I, whose hidden force Man’s ev’ry action does impell? Of joy, & woe, alike the source Alike the spring of good, & ill? ... ‘Tis I direct th…

There were many visitors here for garden tours. Christine has left the house. She will come back later in September so I can see her again, but everybody misses her. She has been on and off but she has been an intern here and knows a lot a…

On Saturday the library is closed. I decided to go shopping in town (Alton) and make dinner for all. I had tea at Cassandra's Cup with Karen and Emily. On our way there, we saw people playing cricket. The photo looks like an artistic pictu…

We had a tour of the garden by the gardener, Andrew. The house is situated in the 275 acre countryside, which figure I cannot grasp in other ways than as the notion of being very large. The tour began at the well house. There is a huge ind…

In the morning sesseion I went to the storeroom to browse books there with Vicki and Ruth. Ruth was our librarian today. Browsing books on the shelves is very helpful. The computerized catalogues and ordering systems are very convenient an…

A furthur details about Wilmot and Morris. Also fine exquisite drawings in the box. After reading, we went to the walled garden to pick apples. And plums and flowers. Had cheese night! Everybody bought cheese to share for this cheese night…

As long as it is concerned with the material that I am reading, I feel extremely happy. Wilmot writes what I want. This evening between 8 and 9 it was bat walk. We intended Tawny owl walk but owl was not heard. Instead, we saw many small b…

About a quarter past three in the afternoon, I was at a loss about a word at the end of a line of manuscript of E Wilmot. The paper was brown with some damage and I could not read it. I used the LED light of the macro lens of my Canon M6. …

Winchester day As the library is closed on Saturdays, I decided to go to Winchester. Everybody whom I told Ihad a good day at Selborne ladt week asked me if I went to Winchester. That is why I decided to go there. I now know why they recom…

I came here on 10 August. There are a lot to write about. However, thr internet connection is unstable and even more frustrating than in London and I have stopped writing. Another reason is that I have started a completely different kind o…

I went to Apsley House, or No 1, London. It is a wonderfully sumptuous house with Robert Adam interior turned more gorgeous by Regency refurbishments. I am ignorant enough to wonder why Duke of Wellington was so special. His victorires see…

On Saturdays there are distinctively fewer people in the library. The room is pleasantly static with a few people moving. The librarians seem to be willing to respond to anybody though there is nobody who asks any troublesome questions or …

Leaving work a little early, I went to Friends's preview of the exhibition Matisse in his Studio. On Fridays they are open till late, as are as 10 pm. It was a small exhibition but very interesting. It shows Matisse's works with objects he…

As usual. Looking forward to Friday.

Routine completed.

Inside the Factory programme at 20:00 BBC2 The British eat 18 million biscuits a day, or was it 19? At one factory of McVitie's they produce 23 million biscuits a day. In Pepys diary, biscuits are for health. Even in the nineteenth century…

Monday routine completed; 10:00-17:00 manuscript room, 17:00- 19:45 humanities 1. As always, we have to queue for bag search at the entrance of the library and we have to finish reading at a quarter to five -- on Friday and Saturday at hal…