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...is the post event plague.

Today is my third day off work with a cough. Coughs make me nervous since my round of whooping cough (see entries Jan-May 2008). I'm probably well enough to work, but I find the commute takes a lot out of me, and when I'm on the edge of being ill, I'm better off taking an extra day before tackling the trip again.

On the plague front, I blame [livejournal.com profile] goncalves, though Sir Vitus was struggling with something flu-ey, which hopefully was no longer contagious.

The year Vitus was knighted at Coronation, both he and Robert got 'flu from little Typhoid Maria Clara, Vitus' girl, who was coming down with something on the way home.  Poor J, [livejournal.com profile] aryanhwy's husband, was looking pretty wrung out too.

Thank god for 'flu jabs. Given the option, perhaps I'll avoid enclosed winter events in future, though we are going to Investiture next month.

However, I did make it out the door to the library earlier this week (or else would have expired of boredom) and briefly Cornelissens today (on way home from an MD appt), where I bumped into [livejournal.com profile] armillary. He's offering a bookbinding class at a Thamesreach revel next month, and was looking for supplies.

We agreed to swap some of his rabbit-skin glue (one of the few gilding-related adhesives I don't yet possess) for some parchment - it's even used parchment, perfect for binding books with. :-).

I was kicking myself just before Coronation: I had to restart one of my scrolls, on parchment, because I'd misjudged the spacing and could not fit the whole text. It was my own danged fault, because  I know better than to start scribing late in the evening, because I'm likely to make mistakes...like spacing errors.

I was going to keep it as a test piece for scraping - see how much I could scrape well, and recover the margins for bookmarks or samples. However, it's rather charming to think my mistake will end up bound into a book.
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