(Mostly) Quiet Sunny Day

Another day of nice weather at the castle. Technically I had today off, although I spent a few hours getting started on projects Dr. Scott gave me. The first was getting acquainted with the East Sussex Records Office online catalogue and British Newspaper Archive and searching for castle records; the second was going to the visitor centre to make notes about changes to implement. I hadn't had much time to look around the visitor centre when Dr. Scott briefly took me there on Friday, so it was fun to have a closer look. I learned all sorts of interesting trivia- I'll write some of it in a later post :)

This evening was the first (of what will probably be many, if experience serves) fire alarm false alarm. The smoke detectors are very sensitive here and it's always been something like a hair straightener left plugged in or a kettle being used that apparently sets it off; knowing this, remembering how often it's happened in the past, and seeing as the students have arrived so recently, I knew it was a very safe bet that it was a false alarm and so made time to grab a coat, shoes, book, and my room key before heading out the door. Unfortunately, many of the students outside were missing at least one of these things (especially room keys!).