Keeping track of payments

 

Walked into the Lincolnshire Archives this week to be greeted by a scholar working on a volume of Charles II’s wife’s accounts.  ‘There is her signature,’ he said.  Very neatly ‘Catherine R’.  ‘And the Countess of Suffolk, who kept the accounts for her, made wild guesses at how to spell place names – look at the jumble of letters which is meant to mean Sevenoaks where she is paying the Morris Dancers’.

Not the only highlight of the week.  I got to the North Sea Observatory at Chapel St Leonards for the first time; the picture reflects the inside as well as looking out at the sea over which the sun had just set.  And Lincoln has been taken over by inflated monsters for Half Term – a City Council attempt to compensate for the cancellation of the Christmas Market, an attempt local traders don’t think will have brought them in their missing trade.