Next to last Austen post

I counted out the vitamin C when I packed, and I can't help but think things like "and the morning and the evening made the third day" as I take them. It's the third day. Ball tonight, and straight home to chaos tomorrow, as I'll have workmen in all week, with a brief layover at Tin Box.

How did I live without a smart phone? I checked into my flight back without ever leaving the best panel of the meeting, the one on what foods Austen herself may have eaten. The presenter has started diningwithjaneausten.org, and over the course of a year she will be testing a variety of recipes from the Austen family cookbooks and asking for testers. But note that posts will not stay up long, as she hopes to get a cookbook out of it.

There was also a session on how Austen seems to have gotten her hero's names from the famous Whig families of Yorkshire, including a man with the melodious name "William Wentworth Fitzwilliam."

I didn't find the women who play the Bingley sisters to be all that funny to me, so I left their talk and snuck in on the one about changes in architecture and furnishings.

And now I'm back at the hotel, taking a quick look at mail and packing so I won't have to in the morning.