Three Out Of Three,,.
Oct. 6th, 2012 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
endlessraritiesHoorah! My conference requirements for 2012 are now over, and I can now concentrate on being a writer again!!
I didn't really learn much that was new today, but it was a great refresher course which put various disparate bits of knowledge together that I've accumulated over the past couple of decades (!). The conference was held in the Burrell Collection, hosted by Glasgow Archaeological Society and dedicated to The Clyde. It was mainly modern in its subject matter - with much said about the improvement of the river, and the history of the mercantile and industrial centres on its banks - Glasgow, Greenock, Port Glasgow, but there were a couple of papers on earlier aspects, such as crannogs.
I had my writer's hat on for one particular paper dedicated to Dumbarton Castle, which features in Novel #2. Guess I'll have to do a bit of rewriting now, as it doesn't seem to be laid out the way I'd anticipated. Ah, well. These things are sent to try us.
But after seeing endless views of Dumbarton Castle from land, from sea, and from the air, there's no excuse for my not returning to those missing pages of MS I've been bewailing over the last couple of weeks, because - you've guessed it!!- they feature none other than Dumbarton Castle!!!
Must put nose to grindstone... Must put nose to grindstone....
I didn't really learn much that was new today, but it was a great refresher course which put various disparate bits of knowledge together that I've accumulated over the past couple of decades (!). The conference was held in the Burrell Collection, hosted by Glasgow Archaeological Society and dedicated to The Clyde. It was mainly modern in its subject matter - with much said about the improvement of the river, and the history of the mercantile and industrial centres on its banks - Glasgow, Greenock, Port Glasgow, but there were a couple of papers on earlier aspects, such as crannogs.
I had my writer's hat on for one particular paper dedicated to Dumbarton Castle, which features in Novel #2. Guess I'll have to do a bit of rewriting now, as it doesn't seem to be laid out the way I'd anticipated. Ah, well. These things are sent to try us.
But after seeing endless views of Dumbarton Castle from land, from sea, and from the air, there's no excuse for my not returning to those missing pages of MS I've been bewailing over the last couple of weeks, because - you've guessed it!!- they feature none other than Dumbarton Castle!!!
Must put nose to grindstone... Must put nose to grindstone....
