SHORTHAND PRACTICE-LEGAL OUTLINE WITH MATTER

It was a relief to have the fragile and creased ancient photos safely captured, and they could now be viewed on the screen without disturbing the originals. I also had the huge fun of digitally removing all the dirty marks and white creases from some of them * , keeping the edited version as a separate file, with the original scan untouched. I revisited all the early years holidays in Cornwall, Devon and Wales * . There was a large collection covering the years after our move to our present house, and a detailed record of the creation of the garden, from totally overgrown * , to almost park like perfection, a slow journey of path laying, trellis building, and shrub and apple tree planting, as well as several enlargements of the fish pond.   * Omission phrase "some (of) them" Note that "some other" uses doubling.   * "Wales" Special outline, to distinguish from place name "Wells" which uses the Wel stroke   * "overgrown "evergreen" ...

Now that I had them all in a stack I had to consider how to properly *  store and display them again. They would have to be scanned first of course. There were *  other boxes of prints, which  had never been put into albums. They would have to be scanned as well, in order to be able to *  get everything in subject and date order. I also had some boxes of very old family photos inherited from relatives, ranging from small home produced efforts to large professional prints of special events. More careful high res scanning would be required for those. The job was indeed growing by the minute, as I rummaged about for every photo I could find in the house. A comprehensive scanning session was the priority, starting with the oldest ones, as nothing could be put into books until that had been done.   * "properly" Insert the first vowel, and the diphone in "appropriately" as they are similar in outline and meaning   * Omission phrase "there (w)ere"   * "in or...

Earlier in the year, I finally got round to sorting out all my old photographs. What started this marathon effort was the seemingly small task of removing photos from some old albums. They were ring binder folders containing plastic sheets with pockets, which, being now 45 years old, had begun to warp and bubble. I was concerned for the photos but fortunately they were unaffected, but it was necessary to rescue them and give them a better home. The ring binder method was ideal, as it is always frustrating to arrange photos and then find another one that needs slotting between the others.   I was very organised at the time and typed lots *  of tiny captions on sticky label strips to put alongside each pocket. These could not be removed, so I had to interleave the now loose photos with paper strips with scribbled place names and dates. The job went quite quickly and I ended up with wads of photos wrapped in sheets of paper, arranged in two shoeboxes. The albums were destroyed, a...