vivdunstan

This has felt like a week and a half.

What with the To Do list consequent upon seeing the solicitors -

- which has involved a lot of digging stuff up and delving into files and checking things and discovering inter alia that a certain publisher has been sending my statements into the void, i.e. to an email address which went defunct in 2012. And that The Textbook is actually available in an e-version that I wotted not of.

Plus there has been the less straightforward than I supposed matter of actually putting the getting civilly partnered in hand - at one point I thought this might be on hold until Jan '27 but by not doing the most utterly basic possibility at the local Town Hall, can do it within a more reasonable time-frame, contingent upon going down to the Town Hall to register with due notice....

Okay, as historian and novel-reader I can see that this is to as far as possible avoid all those sensational entanglements that are fun to read but not to endure in person.

Concurrent with this there have been other annoyances - yes, I am delighted that my review is being published, but YOY do I have to, yet again, register with the journal portal and why is this never completely straightforward?

And I think this is apposite for the undertakings of this week: ‘The reading of the will’: making inheritance law visual - wills in funerary monuments, art, literature, media.