Back from Holiday

I've had two weeks off on our family holiday which was good and helped me relax a little and help to forget the troubles at the BBC.

I've been back to work today on the biography of Hugh Stowell Brown. I've finished the chapter on his home life which is now the longest chapter of the book. I've now completed seven chapters and nearly competed the eighth of the thirteen chapters of the book. That would be find except that today is the last proper day of my sabbatical. I've still got to write a sabbatical report and I'm back to church work tomorrow!

Clearly I'll be carrying on with writing and with the sabbatical work for a while to come yet.

If you've been travelling with me through this sabbatical, thank you. But don't leave yet, there's still more to come.

Just church this morning

I went to Mossley Hill parish church this morning and into an all-age meeting led by Maggie Swinson.
No more sabbatical work for a while now, I'm spending time with the family.

Writing all day

I've had a busy day writing about Hugh Stowell Brown's home life. Some fascinating excursions into Liberal politics and even one of HSB's grandchildren who became a Lady, and her descendents are all hereditary peers!

Frustratingly the chapter is not finished and I'm running out of good writing time. Perhaps I should start to get in touch with publishers? Any ideas, anyone?

Back to writing

It's been a while since I updated this blog - sorry to anyone who's reading it.

Yesterday I went to Ramilies Road Chapel for their morning worship. Lovely people there.

Today I've progressed the Hugh Stowell Brown biography. I've abandoned the chapter on the lectures for the moment as going into detail on one lecture might conflict with a later chapter on Hugh's most important beliefs and teachings.

So I launched headlong into the chapter on Hugh's personal and family life, which he writes virtually nothing about, at least virtually nothing made it into the edited published version of his memoirs and commonplace book. My sources material is the census returns, some public records and some contemporary accounts. I think I'll have just about enough to make it sound like a good story and not just a list of dates.

I also spent some time today writing a piece of time management for the new website of theMedianet . I left it to the deadline, having not been able to find the time to do it sooner.