The Old Storehouse (A Storehouse of Knowledge)

Another walk in some snatched sunlight this morning. This old building, a storehouse now, is alongside the track. On the other side of the track is an old disused house. I liked the mixture of the faded colour, the wonky nest box and plank, the newish window and the old but basically healthy condition of the building.
Once home a little gardening happened, planting bulbs and onions now the earth has temporarily thawed out again after the frosty days. As I was finishing off that job the rain started falling again.
Wednesday is our private filmstudio evening  and this evening we were round at Ruth's. Dinner was a delicious shepherds pie, followed by lovely cakes, baked by Ruth and her daughter Louise. Full of good food we sat down to watch "The Professor and the Madman", yet another film I would recommend. One of the two main characters, James Murray, led the project to create the Oxford English Dictionary.
As usual with such a film we came home and started searching Wikipedia etc to find out how much of the film was "true" and how much created by poetic licence.  It's always an interesting search and this time showed that much of the film was factually correct, though the romantic interest was  exaggerated and some of the backstory a little dubious.
Due to the wonders of Internet my searching led me to the Project Gutenberg website and to the text of a lecture given in 1900 by James Murray on "The Evolution of English Lexicography". For any people with an interest in language and dictionaries it is still a very interesting read. Internet is wonderful!
The events portrayed seem an age away in some ways, yet they took place in the days of my grandparents, not so long ago. To put it another way, the building in this blip was up and in use when words A to ant were published as the initial section for that first Oxford English Dictionary!