I am now the proud owner of a second-hand laptop computer. This has the advantage that I can sit downstairs in the evening and use the computer and internet whilst my daughter talks to her friends on msn upstairs. For the last few evenings I have been investigating Russian using cyrillic script.
One of my husband's ancestors had a flax mill in Russia prior to the Revolution in 1917 and we have some letters from him in Russia. They are on headed paper but obviously the text is in cyrillic. Using a cyrillic character set and babel fish, we have worked out most of what it says but there are several fonts and some letters look totally different in for example cursive and non-cursive script. I have also located some pictures of Thomas Tong and his wife in the Russian Archive at Leeds Uni so I need to see if I can get copies of those.
This weekend (weather permitting) we are going to Bristol to the Balloon Fiesta. At the moment that looks like Saturday evening for the Sunday morning launch but who knows?
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