#John Hainsworth

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John Hainsworth - Near Dark, 2023

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Fawx & Stallion Audio Verse Awards Finalists!

As promised, we have provided a (hopefully) helpful guide, and a healthy congratulations to our finalists in the 2023 Audio Verse Awards! A full text-based breakdown of the finalists is provided below the cut.

Voting is open now through January 2nd!

FINALISTS

New Guest Voices

Chris Hainsworth (The Commissioner) Corrbette Pasko (Catalina Schnutz) Robert Kauzlaric (Sherlock Holmes) Tom Crowley (John Watson)

New Recurring Voices

Jeremy Thompson (Hampton Fawx) Chris Vizurraga (James Stallion) Katie McLean Hainsworth (Madge Stallion) Shawn Pfautsch (Archie Cartwright) Lauren Grace Thompson (Sarah Fletchley) Ian Geers (Constable McMurphy) Tommy Malouf (Jonathan Crimeria) Tina Muñoz Pandya (Furina Sazarac)

New Music

Fawx & Stallion Credits by Baldemar Fawx & Stallion Theme by Baldemar 

New Music Director

Baldemar

New Production

Fawx & Stallion

Best New Director

Ian Geers, Lauren Grace Thompson

Best New Art

Sam Twardy

Best New Writing

Ian Geers, Lauren Grace Thompson

Best New Sound Design

Sarah Buchynski

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In your opinion, what are iconic moments or images where women have looked the most beautiful ever to you? It can be people you know, or famous people.

there’s so many but it only lets me post 10 at once

In no particular order:

Isis Hainsworth as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, one of the most brilliantly crushing things i’ve ever experienced. It was an absolutely brilliant production, but she was stunning and i think of it every day

Flaming June because look at her

A Study by Julia Margaret Cameron

Mata Hari, a questionable woman, but i admire her use of sensuality upon a stage

Billie Holiday with her chihuahuas

Lady Lilith by Rossetti, first of all because it’s Lilith, second of all because i used to know a girl that looked exactly like this painting and i always forgot to tell her, rats!

isadora duncan

Nina Simone because “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” gets stuck in my head every single day

Ethel Cain! Preacher’s Daughter cover art! Life changing stuff

Madame X by John Singer Sargent

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* FAWX & STALLION / ENGLISH / ONGOING / 2022-PRESENT

— Sherlock Holmes and John Watson have not yet appeared. — Jeremy Thompson as Hampton Fawx, Chris Vizurraga as James Stallion, Katie McLean Hainsworth as Madge Stallion, and Shawn Pfautsch as Archie Cartwright. — Written and directed by Ian Geers and Lauren Grace Thompson. — A special thank you to Sarah Buchynski for the sound design. — Favorite Episode: (S1E4) Chapter Four: The Case of the Associates of Gentleman.

I take great pride in the fact that I don’t have taste and will read or watch anything regardless of quality; however, I have always been ridiculously selective about which podcasts and radio shows I follow. If I do not have something to look at, it can be difficult for me to pay attention to/hear what is happening in this type of media, and thus my standards tend to be a little unfair. The number of shows I have discarded or given up on because of minute details is more significant than I feel comfortable admitting, but the few that I have gotten attached to mean the world to me. I love re-listening to podcasts, and I don’t tend to go far from my comfort zone, but I am so thankful I made myself listen to Fawx & Stallion. I honestly have no words for how entertaining this podcast is nor how deep my love of Hampton Fawx goes; he scratches the side of my brain that loves earnest, stupid men. The concept of this podcast is that across the street (and to the left) of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson is another detective agency consisting of Hampton Fawx, James Stallion, and Madge Stallion at 224B Baker Street. They aren’t necessarily the best detectives in London, but they’ve got spunk. It also probably doesn’t help that they’re competing with Sherlock Holmes himself; they really can’t be blamed for not excelling in a business field this monopolized. When they finally have the chance to solve their first big case (read: first ever) after Watson and Holmes take a trip to the countryside, Fawx, Stallion, and Madge begin investigating to the best of their abilities, well, probably. When I started listening to this podcast, I wasn’t expecting much, which is how I go into all new shows, but I was surprised at how quickly invested I became in not just the characters but the story. The humor was so spot-on for me that there were points I was giggling loudly at my desk at work, and I don’t normally emote when listening to podcasts. The kicker for me was that there was very little background noise when the characters were speaking, which made it so easy to follow along without having to stop and rewind multiple times, which was something new for me. I understand the desire to make a podcast dynamic, but if I can’t hear anything, it’s not fun for me, and I appreciate the sound design for this podcast (and the detailed transcripts)—even when there was background noise, it was quieter or the focus of the scene. There isn’t much I can say as the podcast is still ongoing, but I am begging everyone to listen to Fawx & Stallion; it has become one of my favorite podcasts of all time, and I am waiting for the rest of the series. Which I would not normally do; I do not like media that isn’t finished, but I’m excited to follow this show as it releases each episode. I would also like to mention that I am viciously happy about the amount of queer representation in this audio drama; I have a lesbian, two gay men, and a rat: the dream team.

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Monday 12 December 1836

7 40

1 35

no kiss the ground covered with snow and small snow falling and F31° now at 8 40 a.m. breakfast - 25 minutes filing off the padlock of one of A-‘s deed-boxes - then talking to John Booth about getting his son-in-law (Martha’s husband) to the Dispensary - the man cannot walk - laid up in the rheumatism - at my desk at 10 ½ - snowy (small snow) wintry day - from about 1 to 2 (an hour) had Messrs. Hainsworth and Dobson - evidently very anxious to have the stone but I would say nothing either one way or other - H- thought of bidding 3/. per yard for the stone and £30 per annum for the farm - I made no remark on this but that I thought £30 very fair for the farm - I wished the farm to go with the stone - should be guided rather by the bid for the stone than for the farm but not bound to take the highest bid - at last I said there were several I knew would bid of whom I had an equally good opinion and among whom it would be difficult to choose without some principle laid down - I should therefore among these take the highest bid - was only anxious to do what I thought fair and right - on coming upstairs wrote note to Mr. Parker giving the conditions to be produced at the letting this evening at 6 pm at the Stump X Inn - sent off my note by John Booth at 3 ½ to ‘Messrs. Parker and Adam solicitors Halifax’ - dinner at 6 ¾ - coffee upstairs - A- read French - from 8 ½ to 10 ¾ as all the morning from 10 ½ to 1 and from after writing my note that is from about 3 to 6 ¾ siding in my study and library - Had Joseph Mann from 10 ¾ to 11 ½ - he brought the tickets (biddings) in a packet from Mr. Parker - said Dodgson was the highest bidder the 1st round - Dodgson! said I - I never thought of him; but I might have thought of him, for I knew he intended to bid - then talked about the colliery - It will be March before they are up to the engine-pit, but will answer for having Listerwick pit bottomed in August - came upstairs at 11 ½ - looked at the biddings - it is between Dodgson and Womersley - each 7/6. per yard for the stone but W- £40 per annum for the farm and D- only £30 - hard bidding for D- but W- must have it - and I do not think of letting him pay more than £35 for the farm - wrote all but the first 4 ½ lines of today till 12 10 at which hour F----- cannot get at it - has blown up and fasted itself and the window in some sort that I cannot open the window - snowy, rainy, sleety, haily, wintry day -

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Two MIT films nominated for New England Emmy Awards

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Two MIT films nominated for New England Emmy Awards

Two films produced by MIT were honored with Emmy nominations by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Boston/New England Chapter. Both “We Are the Forest” and “No Drop to Spare” illustrate international conversations the MIT community is having about the environment and climate change.

“We Are the Forest,” produced by MIT Video Productions (MVP) at MIT Open Learning, was one of six nominees in the Education/Schools category. The documentary highlights the cultural and scientific exchange of the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, MIT Wind Ensemble, and MIT Vocal Jazz Ensemble in the Brazilian Amazon. The excursion depicted in the film was part of the ongoing work of Frederick Harris Jr., MIT director of wind and jazz ensembles and senior lecturer in music, to combine Brazilian music and environmental research.

“No Drop to Spare,” created by the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), was nominated in the Environment/Science and Video Essayist categories. The film, produced by John Freidah, MechE senior producer and creative lead, follows a team of researchers from the K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center working in Kenya, Morocco, and Jordan to deploy affordable, user-driven smart irrigation technology.

“We Are the Forest” tells the story of 80 MIT student musicians who traveled to Manaus, Brazil in March 2023. Together with Indigenous Brazilian musicians and activists, the students played music, created instruments with found objects from the rainforest, and connected their musical practice to nature and culture. The trip and the documentary culminated with the concert “Hearing Amazônia: Art and Resistance.”

“We have an amazing team who are excited to tell the stories of so many great things that happen at MIT,” says Clayton Hainsworth, director for MVP. “It’s a true pleasure when we get to partner with the Institute’s community on these video projects — from Fred [Harris], with his desire for outreach of the music curriculum, giving students new perspectives and getting beyond the lab; to students getting to experience the world and seeing how that affects their next steps as they go out and make an impact.”

The documentary was produced by Hainsworth, directed by Jean Dunoyer, staff editor at MVP, and filmed by Myles Lowery, field production videographer at MVP. Hainsworth credits Dunoyer with refining the story’s main themes: the universality of music as a common human language, and the ways that Indigenous communities can teach and inform the rest of the globe about the environment and the challenges we are all facing.

“The film highlights the reach of how MIT touches the world and, more importantly, how the world touches MIT,” says Hainsworth, adding that the work was generously supported by A. Neil Pappalardo ’64 and Jane Pappalardo. 

“No Drop to Spare” evoked a similar sentiment from Freidah. “What I liked about this story was the potential for great impact,” says Freidah, discussing the MechE film’s production process. “It was global, it was being piloted in three different places in the world, with three different end users, and had three different applications. You sort of go in with an idea in mind of what the story might be, then things bubble up. In this story, as with so many stories, what rose to the top was the students and the impact they were having on the real world and end users.” 

Freidah has worked with Amos Winter SM ’05, PhD ’11, associate professor of mechanical engineering and MIT GEAR Center principal investigator, to highlight other impact global projects in the past, including producing a video in 2016. That film, “Water is Life,” explores the development of low-cost desalination systems in India. 

While the phrase “it’s an honor to be nominated” might seem cliched, it remains often used because the sentiment almost always rings true. Although neither film triumphed at this year’s awards ceremony, Freidah says there’s much to be celebrated in the final product. 

“Seeing the effect this piece had, and how it highlighted our students, that’s the success story — but it’s always nice also to receive recognition from outside.”

The 47th Boston/New England Emmy Awards Ceremony took place on June 8 at the Marriott Boston Copley Place. A list of nominees and winners can be found on the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Boston/New England Chapter website. 

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William J. Hainsworth, May 4, 1943 – October 5, 2022 It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of my Father, William J. Hainsworth. In a true bit of poetic flair, he died 7 years to the day of the passing of his wife, Nita, shortly before midnight on October 5th, 2022. I’m grateful my sister Laura, his healthcare worker Cynthia and his dear friend John were by his side. I’ll have more thoughts to share later - but to those who ever knew him, I just wanted you to know. We are planning a memorial service on November 12th, more details forthcoming. https://www.instagram.com/p/CjjYALWrou6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Boreal Forest (Fade Out)
Oil and acrylic on aluminium, 10 x 10 cm, 2017

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The Victim  -  BBC One  -  April 8 - 11, 2019

Drama (4 episodes)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Kelly Macdonald as Anna Dean

James Harkness as Craig Myers

John Hannah as DI Stephen Grover

Karla Crome as Rebecca Myers

John Scougall as Tom Carpenter

Isis Hainsworth as Louise Graham

Andrew Rothney as Danny Callaghan

Pooky Quesnel as Mo Buckley

Chloe Pirrie as Ella Mackie

Joanne Thompson as DS Lisa Harvey

Ramon Tikaram as Solomon Mishra

Cal MacAninch as Christian Graham

Nicholas Nunn as William Napier

Tom Mannion as Gerry Tythe

Georgie Glen as Judge

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STAR WARS / THE BEATLES mashup

album cover homage by Dan Hainsworth

The Beatles: Abbey Road (1969)

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Fisherman’s Friends. One and All. Quick Review.

As someone willing to mount a very mild defence of the first film this unnecessary sequel is one of the most baffling British movies I can remember in quite some time.

The first film telling the story of the popular Cornish folk band was very typical within its style of production line Britcom. That said in an era where British multiplexes are awash with this kind of “grey pound” material Fisherman’s Friends was one of the better efforts. It will not rock any viewer’s world but the sense of very mild affable charm with this screen adaptation of the band story…

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John Hainsworth - Arboretum, 2021

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WtSF Crossover: The Case of the Deus Ex Machina 👻🔮🍪

Our Halloween Crossover with Where the Stars Fell (@starsfellradio), The Case of the Deus Ex Machina, is now available! Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and all other podcatchers. Full show and content notes under the cut.

The Place: London, England The Time: Winter, 1890 The Occasion: A Private Seance with Francesca Vonn Duvet, Psychic The Guests: Hampton Fawx (alias: Reginald Norcliffe, Esq), Madge Stallion (alias: Penelope Thistledown, widow), James Stallion (alias: none - never nailed anything down), Prince of Hell Beelzebub (alias: Belladona/BB/Other), The Archangel Gabriel (alias: Gabriel) Other Options: None (Sherlock Holmes and John Watson unavailable - adopting dog or something)

Transcript HERE.

Find Where the Stars Fell on all your favorite podcatchers, or on their website, https://wherethestarsfell.com/

CREDITS

Written by Ian Geers, Lauren Grace Thompson, and Newton Schottelkotte. Where the Stars Fell is a production of Caldera Studios, and is produced by Newton Schottelkotte. Fawx and Stallion is created by Ian Geers and Lauren Grace Thompson. Sound design was by Newton Schottelkotte, direction by Newton Schottelkotte and Ian Geers, and editing by Lauren Grace Thompson. Original music composed by Baldemar and Newton Schottelkotte. 

CAST

Hampton Fawx: Jeremy Thompson

James Stallion: Chris Vizurraga

Madge Stallion: Katie McLean Hainsworth

Victorian BB/Edison: Newton Schottelkotte

Victorian Gabe/BB: Max Fleishacker

Francesca Vonn Duvet: Emma Sherr-Ziarko

McMurphy: Ian Geers

Gabe: Kiera Gill

Ambrosius: Llewyn Geers-Thompson

All sound effects taken from Audio Library, Sound Library, Freesound, original foley, or used under Creative Commons License.

CONTENT NOTES

This episode contains adult language and sexual content.

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Metal Lords | D.B. Weiss | Official Trailer | Netflix

Metal Lords | D.B. Weiss | Official Trailer | Netflix

Two kids start a metal band in a high school where exactly two kids care about metal. They can’t find a bassist, but there is this one girl who plays the cello. They need to work together if they’re ever going to win the Battle of the Bands. SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/29qBUt7 About Netflix: Netflix is the world’s leading streaming entertainment service with 222 million paid memberships in over 190…

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Metal Lords | D.B. Weiss | Official Trailer | Netflix

Metal Lords | D.B. Weiss | Official Trailer | Netflix

Two kids start a metal band in a high school where exactly two kids care about metal. They can’t find a bassist, but there is this one girl who plays the cello. They need to work together if they’re ever going to win the Battle of the Bands. SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/29qBUt7 About Netflix: Netflix is the world’s leading streaming entertainment service with 222 million paid memberships in over 190…

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Tuesday 10 November 1835

7 ¼

11 ½

no kiss ready in 50 minutes damp morning F48°  at 8 5 and sat over it talking to A- till 9 - came upstairs for ¼ hour and at accounts - then left A- to go to Cliff hill and I went out into the farmyard and about in the fields till 11 50 when George told me A- would stay at Cliff hill tonight and John said he had brought 2 letters from her from H-x (1 from Huddersfield Miss Atkinsons and 1 from Mr Barber Leeds) - opened the latter  - wrote A- a kind note a ½ sheet full containing copy of what I advised her writing and sending back by George to post to Mr Barber in brief answer to his rigmarole of 3 pages and ends - thank him for his letter would have made no objection to paying his expense had he come - but glad he did not come - glad he was saved the useless trouble of the journey ‘as  I am satisfied you are not at all the sort of person I am in want of for my intended school - I had no expectation that anyone of your superior education and attainments would have answered my advertisement; and I can only hope that you will soon meet with a situation much more likely to suit you than a village school like mine -  I am sir, your obedient servant’ - went out again at 12 40 - saw the men at work again at 1 ½ and came in - a little light shower sent me in - fair in less than ½ hour - dressed    at my desk at 2 - I think more and more A- and I will never go on together forever I felt this strongly on Sunday at church even last night just before getting into bed she was in one of her out of sorts humours I knew not what for unless that I asked for the plan I got done of the old church some time ago she has a queer temper and as she gradually begins to have a will of her own her queerness her requiring much attention her emptiness as a companion strike me more and more her leaving me shall be her own doing but I hope I shall be ready when the time shall come and not fret myself to death about it till 2 ¼ wrote the above of today - from 2 ¼ to 4 ½ wrote 2 ½ sheets full nice enough kind chitchat letter to Lady Stuart - had Charles H- up - no deals good enough at Hainsworth’s - Charles told the foreman they loose not worth 6 ¾ per ft.- saw Hainsworth himself who that was mistake - were 6 ¼ per ft.- told Charles I would not have bad wood - to see if Greenwood had any good deals - if not, to take Mark Hepworth and his wood waggon and go to Harrison at Leeds on Thursday - then went down to Mr Husband for a minute or 2 - he brought me the bill for Adney bridge labour £39+ - including these interruptions from 4 ½ to 6 ¾ wrote and sent 3 pages of ½ sheet and under the seal to Lady Stuart de R- and enclosed my letter to her ‘The Lady Lady Stuart de Rothesay’ and my letter to ‘the honourable Lady Stuart’ under cover to the ‘Lord Stuart de Rothesay Highcliffe Christchurch Hants’ - and sent also A-‘s letter to Mr Barber 7 Alfred Place Leeds - dinner at  6 50 - coffee - went to my father and Marian about 8 and staid reading the paper (latterly alone) till 9 - letter tonight from Mr Johnson ‘107 Regent street London’ dated yesterday the 2 first containing a copy of a letter to Mr Johnson from a Mr Davey who Mr Johnson thinks very likely to suit us for the Lightcliffe school - the account Mr Davey gives of himself what is said of him by Mr Johnson is very promising - he about 38 or 40 married but has no children except an adopted niece of his wife’s - seems a very clever sort of man - I am taken with the description - How A- may feel upon it is another matter - seems to be assez fort is mathematics and all we want - was instructed in the Central National school about 13 years ago -  Began my letter to Lady Stuart with ‘A letter from Vere a few days ago inquires if I am yet alive - I think I should scarcely know that I am, were I not roused by the incidental remark ‘aunt Stuart never mentions you so I suppose you are equally communicative to her’ - I see that I seem to forget even those whom I most constantly and affectionately remember - this is too much - I meant merely to wait till you would be about arriving at Highcliffe - Perhaps you have already been there a fortnight or 3 weeks - the happiness of all around you, the fine sea-breezes, the place you like best next to your own pretty Lodge, must surely have done you good, and this satisfies me - for I am not so unreasonable as to fancy you have had many thoughts to spare for me - But do not quite forget me - the very shadow of a fear of being absolutely forgotten would only add to the melancholy of my tied down here’ - should be delighted to join the  Xmas party at Bradfield house but I cannot leave home -.....’I sometimes half regret (tho’ I have never owned ½ so much to anyone before) that I have entered into so many and serious concerns - yet, if all was to come over again, perhaps I should not better know how to keep aloof - I am, in point of property, so close upon the heels of my busiest neighbours, there is always something they want me to do, or undo - I long to be en voyage again..... you do not know how much I regit  [regret] that  I have seen so little of you during this my 2 years stay in England’ - the schoolmaster-seeking failed in London but hope all will now be settled by Xmas -  ‘not so easy as I fancied it, to find good solid information combined with good conduct and good sound [?] as to church and state - political! the mind of the people is sadly warped - it is more and more evident and I know not what to make of it - the registration has not gained us much if anything - I cannot understand the injudiciousness of those of Mr James Wortley’s friends who declined his offer to pay the whole or part (I cannot possibly learn which) of the expense of his last election - those very friends were probably neither the wealthiest of his supporters, not those how would again come forward in the same way with the most real cheerfulness - the people call out for a man of money - the town is said to say it cannot support such expense again - whether H-x is to be a corporation town or not, seems to hang upon the calculation of expenses - I suppose parliament is to be petitioned next session for the din of steam carriages to pass within 3 or 4 miles of us - whenever I dare think of travelling, it is, to try the railroad at Leipzig, and be steamed down the Danube - but I have not forgotten Copenhagen and the north’ .... ‘Do not quite forget me and believe me, dearest Lady Stuart very affectionately yours AL’ to Lady S- de R- ‘my dearest Lady Stuart it was very good indeed of you to write to me so soon and from dear Charlotte I really did not expect one syllable - she had excuse quite enough - I rejoice with all my heart at all your happiness - Poor dear Louisa! I daresay she behaves beautifully - but surely her reward is at hand - I regret (tho’ I am ashamed of being so selfish) that Mr Canning gave her a watch - I conclude Lady Stuart is with you, and, I hope very much the better for all the

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happiness around her, and for the fine sea-breezes of Highcliffe - Time slips away from me most extraordinary, tho’ it is not exactly an absolute freedom from anxiety that makes my days and hours seem so short - I had no idea of its being so long since I had heard from and written to anybody till a letter from Vere, the other day, roused me up, and put me in sad fear, that, seeming to forget, I should really be forgotten - may this evil, at least, be far from me! - I am very busy, far too busy - I see my building and other concerns gradually enlarge themselves beyond my 1st intentions - but I have still time for thought of other things - Surely the cholera will not always  rage in Italy - and, if some of or Pyrenees party may meet again en voyage, may it be in Italy!’ anxious about Lady S- to know how she bears so much journeying - ‘but I know from experience, that the real is often much greater than the apparent amount of bodily strength - a love of change of place sometimes clings to us to the last - my aunt told me the other night, she could very well bear to return to Paris! yet her state of dropsical feebleness and suffering seems extreme..... my love to Charlotte and Louisa - you know I have always been one of Lord Stuart’s admires, that hommages from him are particularly valued, and I hope you will tell him so with my best regards - Believe me always my dear Lady Stuart, very truly yours A Lister’ - 20 minutes with my aunt till 10 0 - just before and afterwards till 10 40 wrote the last 15 lines of the last page but one, the whole of the last page and so far of this - damp but tolerably good working morning till 12 then a little light rain - rain between 1 and 2 for ½ hour and heavy show at 3 - afterwards damp but tolerably good working afternoon - F50° now at 10 ¾ pm in my study - (fire in the stove)