I can has wifi...

[desperance]

Nothing to say: I just wanted you to know that I am posting this from my other office, the Silence Room in the Lit & Phil.

If I remember, I'll sneak the camera in one morning and post pix of my workstation & environment. That'll fix you.

Comments

[fastfwd.livejournal.com]

Oh, do it! I'd love to see that!

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

I'm already jealous enough of that place! (Please, post pictures though)

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

Here to whet your appetite is a snap of Val Macdermid at the launch of her book of short stories, Stranded. If you visit this page you can see some we took earlier. Can you spot shewhomust as well as desperance and yours truly?

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thank you. I recognise Mr Desperance of course, and I think I see yourself, but as I don't know Shewhomust I've no idea if I can spot her or not.

Either way I *still* have a mad desire to live within easy range of the Lit+Phil.

[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

In the photo at the head of this page, the recognisable people are, left-to-right, durham_rambler, samarcand, shewhomust and Sean O'Brien.

And that should have been Val McDermid of course, I don't know where the a crept in from ...

What I love about the Lit & Phil is that, once a book has made it into its permanent collection, they are forbidden under the constitution from ever disposing of it. Which is why they have about 30 star catalogues, including . Catalogue of 20,554 faint stars in the Cape astrographic zone.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

...and the original English-Esperanto dictionary, first published in 1907 or thereabouts and never borrowed, never ever borrowed until I took it out myself, almost a hundred years later. But it was still there, waiting for me. That's what I love about the Lit & Phil...

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

The Wallace Collection in London is forbidden to remove, add or loan anything from its collection - the Lit+Phil sounds much more sensible (well, up to the point where they run out of storage space that is)

Thank you for the photo captioning!