My start to the working day is a bit late this morning. The first main activity today was waving my parents off as they left in a big black taxi cab, heading back to the winter of Canada after enjoying some English “spring”.

But I have a big cup of tea and I’m itching to get back to work after a two-week hiatus.

Monday morning, Day of DH 2013: Working on the Sloane Project.

First thing on the to-do list: some long overdue updating of my Sir Hans Sloane’s Correspondence Online website and database. It’s not very exciting, but these sorts of things need to be done fairly regularly.

These sorts of tasks are also a great way of easing back into work…