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Interesting times ahead in our little museum world.

Basically the church has started their own museum in opposition and has so much more to offer than we do.

Okay we have a castle and a fantastic collection of archaeological and social history artefacts and we offer an 'bought in' educational service to local schools.

But they have a church [with a roof on it] filled with amazing carvings, the new heritage centre which is offering a free educational service taking twice as many kids as we charge for without any of them having to be out in the rain AND they have a very nice restaurant and tea room all on the same site. Also they are only a hop and a skip from the Tourist Information Centre.

And to that the pretty damn near certainty that the Marquis's man of business is going to up the rent on the castle by a whopping amount since we no longer maintain the grounds [sacked the stone masons didn't we!] and I could be looking at either a forced transfer or, if I'm lucky, redundancy in a year or two's time.

Actually it might be fun seeing how little housekeeping I can manage on. I used to be an expert.

In other news J K Rowling has contributed a story card to Waterstones "What's your story?" competition. It's a prequel to the Harry Potter series and should be available to read online sometime tomorrow. I'll post either a transcription or a screen shot if possible.

ETA: You need the right sort of flash player for the Rowling piece. It's already available by following the Authors link from here but I can't get at the damn thing *grumbles*