I’m now on a much needed holiday, and I have been disposing of various minor tasks. My long-serving inkjet failed at the weekend – well, it was 12 years old! – and had to be replaced, so that I could fulfil an order for a CD of the Additional Fathers collection. This CD needs revising and modernising, but not right now.
I have prepared an electronic text of the Latin of John the Deacon’s Life of St Nicholas; but I find that I really can’t find any enthusiasm for doing a translation at the moment.
Jones’ “biography” of St Nicholas of Myra has arrived, but likewise I don’t feel like opening the covers at the moment. I was amused, however, by the bookseller, who called himself “Caveat Emptor”!
My next priority is to avoid as many tasks as possible, and get out into the open air!