A walk to Dothill
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This path takes you in once you walk through Donnerville Spinney to get there:
Is immigrating to Canada something we can do on our own or do we need an immigration lawyer? I have been looking at requirements and it all seems straightforward enough, but I don’t want to be unpleasantly surprised
Today's random discovery, of someone saying that they had half-arsed looking up details of something:
extremely causal research
.. that's what we want!
Artisanat is looking at a world map colour coded by what the emergency services phone number is. Some amount of conversation, and I leaned over to look at the map, to discover that Australia, Aotearoa, Brazil, and some of the north coast of Africa are the same colour. Which, what?
When I look at the legend, it is 'has a code only used in that country'. So, for those of you not in Aus, the emergency services code is 000
. It used to be that for mobile phones it was 112
but I'm not sure if that is still the case (Youngest tells me that they couldn't actually do 000
on a previous phone because that would have brought up 'characters not otherwise accessible' and not zero).
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Speaking of Ian McKellan's Twelfth Night, radiantfracture has a post up for an asynchronous watch party. I have a ticket, we're all watching, I'll probably be in the comments there.
I don't think this is just me being An Old and thus cranky - or maybe my crankiness just dates back a long way - because this was a thing that used to annoy me back in the day when listservs were a thing and I was on quite a number relating to various aspects of history.
So anyway, somebody on bluesky asked a question about how to find certain kinds of records for C19th, and was aware that this was a question usefully addressed to archivists &/or historians -
- but didn't actually state WHERE they wanted records for. Which is really of considerable relevance to whether one can respond e.g. 'Have you checked The National Archives Discovery'? (or, 'I expect you have already checked TNA Discovery, but here are some further possibilities....')
I made a bit of a cavil about this in a quote, indicating that this was a peeve of mine (dear sweet pet peeve, I stroke you) and they got a bit miffy, and said, read down thread for details.
Thing was, they had plenty of wordage left over to specify parameters in original post.
Why should I have to do that work to find out if this is a query I can usefully address out of Mi KnowinZ?
Some people on listservs used to be particularly bad, in that sometimes they didn't specify general period, either: what were we, telepaths???
This is the obverse of this thing I may have whinged about, which is that thing where I have asked for, say recommendations of readings on a very specific topic, or maybe very recent work on [topic], or similar, and somebody immediately shoots back something amazingly broad-brush and general that anyone in the field will have read and of very tangential pertinence to actual query.
(Honestly, and they expect people to be able to provide prompts that will come up with astonishingly helpful and correct answers from AI, mutter, fume, antimaccassar set to stun.)