Ruth MacLeod

I have never seen The Wizard of Oz from start to finish. Bits of it, yes. Whole thing, nope.

Done! I’ve been meaning to for ages and kept forgetting - good luck!

Have just forced my chorister to test this.

Fucking hell

Fair point. I don’t think I’ll manage to repeat the shot while I’m up this weekend though!

View of a river, with trees on the far bank, a suspension footbridge over the water and a pink castle in the distance.

I offer you the road leading to the Highland Archives (by the river in Inverness).

That was A Decision. It's also quite the estate agent write up.

Real Edinburgh history is fascinating, and that nonsense gets top billing instead.

My old boss had written an actual paper on this, but it rarely came up when we were discussing either the repository or digital preservation...

That’s quite the week - hope a quiet weekend helps!

I hope your paint removing efforts were better than mine last time I painted - a week later I was still finding white paint in my hair!

Champagne glass beside a bottle of champagne on my kitchen counter, so spice rack and purple salt pig in the background.

Official (virtual) toast of life for N today, so champagne for us both. As she would have appreciated. Plus we’ve had a nice day out with friends #ConfinedCocktails

Yes, and I’ve got a wee scar from splashing boiling sugar on my hand one time. Worth it though.

I’m from a family that makes tablet. We’re very into sugary things!

I associate barley sugar very strongly with my granny!

I've literally pulled a muscle laughing at this.

Photo of a paper airplane on fire with text that reads "I am under no obligation to disclose anything and the papers belong to me. If I wanted to I could take them into the yard and have a bonfire with them" South Yorkshire Chief Constable Med Hughes. Credit for photo of on fire airplane is Aron Yigin via Unsplash

Why aren’t Police Records in England & Wales covered by the Public Records Act? We've been campaigning on this since 2012 - blog for more info:
www.campaignforrecords.org/blog/why-arent-police-records-covered-by-the-public-records-act
#publicaccountability
of interest @andyburnham.bsky.social ?

Statement on recent press discussion about the digitisation of adoption records — Campaign for Records The Chief Archivists in Local Government Group of the Archives and Records Association have put out this statement in response to press discussion on digitisation of adoption records and propose an al...

Yesterday we sent out this briefing to all UK MPs and our press list. It is our response to calls for digitisation of adoption and care records. We believe there is a better - & much needed - solution to make these records more accessible to those that need them. #LongLostFamilies bit.ly/4mBqsxo

Hope things improve soon.

Enjoying seeing Tâf supervising there.

AI isn’t going to solve anything. I’ll still be hundreds of miles away, just in an even more dried up planet.

Yep, my dad complains he doesn’t see my brother, even if he was there the day before.

All the family presence in the world isn’t going to make dementia better either.

Because we live hundreds of miles away. Piss off with your judgement, we’re all doing our best.

Yet.

Pistachio!

A glass of yellowy wine in front of a vase of pink flowers, background is a table and a brick wall

A day of getting round to minor tasks here, so feeling productive and drinking Lugana while cooking #ConfinedCocktails (flowers from garden too, so additional smugness)

Delighted with this review as I’ve had tickets booked for ages and there’s always a risk something like this doesn’t work.

I'm not longer in the archive front-line since retiring, but I'd be interested to know if this is also becoming an issue with archives: hallucinated archival citations, possibly to whole collections? ascribing them to wrong repository? I can envisage nightmarish possibilities.

Most of adulting is rubbish but sitting in the garden with a cocktail is definitely the good bit.