July 2021, Day 3

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!
May the magic be with us all!

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[ylla.livejournal.com]

Today I had to do some things early and some things late, because the zoo was open in the evening, and tigger_boing and I went to see the new giraffes. 121 words about James Lind.

Lind's plaque is inside the gateway, seen from the quadrangle, and interestingly was put there by 'the Sunkist growers of citrus fruit in California and Arizona', rather than anyone in the university or city.

Today in Roman Gaul (in the library book), various quite ordinary people were dying and having inscriptions about their lives on their gravestones, which gives interesting information about the kinds of work being done.

I haven't really danced - and I've walked quite a bit and my legs are tired - but I did Remembering How The Dance Goes in my head, which is also useful.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I am smiling at the idea of the plaque being raised by the Sunkist growers — makes sense I guess :)

[ylla.livejournal.com]

I feel a bit like they *want* people to get scurvy, so they have to buy the citrus fruits to cure themselves. But hopefully they're just really pleased that their produce is so useful.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

A Sunkist sponsored plaque is very appropriate, isnt it :)

Remembering how the dance goes helps, but there's nothing like physically practicing moves until they become second nature. I say that because extensive choreogrphy is something I've always had trouble remembering.

[ylla.livejournal.com]

It's true, but there's still a first stage - we have various basic steps we use, and it's the order and the direction and so on, and I'm tending to find I can do it fine with the video and its brief prompts, but go blank in spots if I have to remember for myself what comes next. So if I can fix that, I can then prompt my feet myself, until they know what to do without me!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

That's the sort of thing I always insisted on going and reading — all — when we were overseas, luckily Sis didn't mind because she's interested too, and didn't try to drag me away :)

[ylla.livejournal.com]

I do like a good plaque. Overseas ones have too much of a tendency to be in Latin or gothic-lettering German or something equally unintelligible, though.