Friday 23 April 2010

in the air, leaving Heathrow Terminal 5
It’s been a trouble-free journey so far, going according to plan, which usually makes me nervous that it will all unravel soon …

Soon after posting Wednesday’s diary entry I began to feel very ill indeed – perhaps picking up a quick lunch from a well-known UK bakery chain to eat in the park wasn’t such a bright idea after all. But by yesterday morning my digestion was recovering and I got through a lot of tasks: packing, submitting another funding application that Chrissy had prepared, writing to our board, and unravelling the intricacies of secretary hand at scottishhandwriting.com. Have a go at the tutotial: it’s great.  The keyboard part of the Crokat MS is in secretary hand rather than italic, so I’ve now got a far better chance of deciphering the titles.

In Heathrow I watched some of Philip Tagg’s milksap montage, and his other pieces on the ‘musemes’ in Abba’s Fernando: I don’t think I’d ever noticed the Also Sprach Zarathustra reference in the intro before.