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Question season
Dec. 4th, 2011 12:21 amIt must be too long since I've had an open thread for questions: I'm getting an increasing number by email and phone. That means it's time for one.
There are rules. You don't have to know me to ask questions. All questions are fine, but I reserve the right to not answer or to mock or to make bad jokes if the questions are too personal or too daft. I won't do research to answer questions - but I'll try to point you in the right direction so that you can do your own research. If you need research or serious advice (writing, history, editing, design of strange historical menus) then I have hourly rates*.
This started off as my way of dealing with the sheer number of queries I had from writers and other bods who wanted information about history, about Judaism, about how to fry an egg, about what Melbourne was like in the 1960s.
I know some strange stuff, but alas, I don't know nearly enough. My blogfriends, however, are an exceptionally learned bunch and, if you have a question I can't answer maybe someone else will help. Maybe they won't. Maybe my work experience students will pop in and give you an answer. It's like a fun fair booth - you put a coin in and ask a question and see if anything results. Except that you don't have to put a coin in.
This once, because it's that time of year and because I'm tired, I'll give due notice that if anyone asks questions such as "What sort of chocolate do you like?" I will expect some in the mail forthwith. I encourage people to ask that sort of question related to books, deeds to property in London and luxury holidays. And now I'm just getting silly. It must be the end of the day...
This thread will be open until Sunday week.
*This sounds terribly crass, but it would be very possible for me to answer questions full-time and never do my own work. In fact, I did, for a bit, before I discovered the miracle of common sense.
There are rules. You don't have to know me to ask questions. All questions are fine, but I reserve the right to not answer or to mock or to make bad jokes if the questions are too personal or too daft. I won't do research to answer questions - but I'll try to point you in the right direction so that you can do your own research. If you need research or serious advice (writing, history, editing, design of strange historical menus) then I have hourly rates*.
This started off as my way of dealing with the sheer number of queries I had from writers and other bods who wanted information about history, about Judaism, about how to fry an egg, about what Melbourne was like in the 1960s.
I know some strange stuff, but alas, I don't know nearly enough. My blogfriends, however, are an exceptionally learned bunch and, if you have a question I can't answer maybe someone else will help. Maybe they won't. Maybe my work experience students will pop in and give you an answer. It's like a fun fair booth - you put a coin in and ask a question and see if anything results. Except that you don't have to put a coin in.
This once, because it's that time of year and because I'm tired, I'll give due notice that if anyone asks questions such as "What sort of chocolate do you like?" I will expect some in the mail forthwith. I encourage people to ask that sort of question related to books, deeds to property in London and luxury holidays. And now I'm just getting silly. It must be the end of the day...
This thread will be open until Sunday week.
*This sounds terribly crass, but it would be very possible for me to answer questions full-time and never do my own work. In fact, I did, for a bit, before I discovered the miracle of common sense.