Originally posted by oddoneout
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A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum
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Originally posted by Bryn View Post
Fish and Chip shops do not provide vinegar. They always use "non-brewed condiment", which is manufactured from acetic acid and water. A sort of ersatz vinegar.
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When I made my early morning wander and forage down the garden today(handful of strawberries and raspberries for breakfast) I noticed that a small white butterfly had evidently been busy laying eggs on the kale plants, some of which I dealt with but I'll go back later. What did surprise me was getting the washing in just now and finding a cluster of large white butterfly eggs neatly deposited on my work shirt... No idea what that was about(perhaps teal is close enough to cabbage colour, but it wouldn't smell right) but I've made a careful check of the rest of the washing!
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Originally posted by Bryn View Post
Fish and Chip shops do not provide vinegar. They always use "non-brewed condiment", which is manufactured from acetic acid and water. A sort of ersatz vinegar.
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Originally posted by richardfinegold View Post
Vinegar is acetic acid and water, plus whatever flavorings that are added
For years now it seems to be considered normal practice to add preservatives to such vinegar. I can only assume it's a way to prevent the vinegar "mother" developing, but I don't buy those ones. - the jelly blob doesn't bother me if it appears.
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Very strange survey from YouGov. They asked which of a list of activities I had done over last weekend:
Flew in a helicopter
Went bungee jumping
Visited a flea market
Watched TV
Visited McGrath, Alaska
Played poker
Went skiing
Went geocaching (What?)
Um, none of the above. Oh, go on - you must at least have watched TV. Nope. None of the above.
The survey was very short, so I suppose I'd have got a new set of questions if I'd visited McGrath, Alaska, or played poker. I did sail round Bristol harbour in the Matthew, but they didn't ask that.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by french frank View PostVery strange survey from YouGov. They asked which of a list of activities I had done over last weekend:
Flew in a helicopter
Went bungee jumping
Visited a flea market
Watched TV
Visited McGrath, Alaska
Played poker
Went skiing
Went geocaching (What?)
Um, none of the above. Oh, go on - you must at least have watched TV. Nope. None of the above.
The survey was very short, so I suppose I'd have got a new set of questions if I'd visited McGrath, Alaska, or played poker. I did sail round Bristol harbour in the Matthew, but they didn't ask that.
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostBy coincidence, over the weekend I read John Cage's lecture on Nothing!
I was also amused by the first question of the survey, listing seven recent American presidents/candidates and asking: Who is the current President of the United States of America? (This is a question to check you are paying attention, so please select J. Biden). Money for old rope this survey lark.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by french frank View Post
It amused me when our library had on its New Accessions shelf (why not Acquisitions?) a full length book, probably two or three hundred pages long, on the subject of Rien.
I was also amused by the first question of the survey, listing seven recent American presidents/candidates and asking: Who is the current President of the United States of America? (This is a question to check you are paying attention, so please select J. Biden). Money for old rope this survey lark.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
If the book is accessioned then it's fully in the system(Dewey, tagged etc) and available to borrow?It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by french frank View Post
It does seem to have the precise meaning of "An addition to the collection of a library, museum, etc.; an acquisition". I thought it might be a Scottish historical usage, but it seems it is more general and current. I didn't know that (until this minute)
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
I really feel uncomfortable with this word, when surely either conservers or conservationists should adequately suffice?
I don't know at what point the distinction was made in terminology but the differentiation has its uses, especially if the two activities exist on the same site.
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Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
A museum may acquire an item, and advertise that acquisition, but there will be a whole process of conservators, research, allocating and recording accession details, before it becomes fully part of the collection and available(ideally) for display or loan.
Conservator seems to me a general term overlapping with keeper and curator, depending on the institution. I've just checked: I'm in correspondence with the "lead curator, Printed Heritage Collection" about some of my books. She might have been a conservator without that worrying me too much.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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