Well, before we left for our holiday the forecast was for rain and snow, and we got that on the first day - along with sleet, fog, blue-sky sunshine and wind!  The rest of the time went on the same way. Yorkshire is unpredictable.
  One discovery while we were there was the workhouse, courtroom and prison at Ripon.  Now three museums, they give a fantastic insight into some of the Victorian institutions we find ourselves transcribing in Sussex. Well worth a visit if you're in the area at any time.
  While we were off sunning(?) ourselves the progress on the project continued: two more pieces have been added to the database since we last wrote. 1046 (Ticehurst) and 1093 (Shoreham 1E).  Thanks, as ever, to those who contributed to those two pieces. We've also been sending out more pieces to be transcribed, and the last of the 1871 pieces is now in the pipeline.  Maybe by this time next year we shall have the whole lot on line?  This means that any of you asking for a new piece to transcibe from now on will be offered part of the 1851 Census.  We know that one or two of you are planning to call it a day when the 1871 is finished, but we hope most of you will want to carry on.  Please let us know what you're thinking...
   The 1851 "pieces" are much larger than we're used to - the whole of Hastings in one piece, for example - so we'll be working on smaller sections once we get the system up and running.  For the last few weeks we've been sending images over the web via Dropbox, instead of using CDs.  This seems to be working, but some people have reported receiving only some of the images from their piece. We'll try to remember to let you know how many there should be so you can check (and if necessary we can go back to CDs, of course).
   Thanks for the various contributions and comments this month;  keep them coming. (And a few more photos would balance up the columns on the page, too!)
   So far the British Summer is not performing too well; those of you in foreign parts might be interested to hear that here in Sussex we have both a drought and floods at the same time.  Ah well!
   Best wishes to you all,

I still can't get over how many widows there were in the parts of Eastbourne I did, I still think it was the murder capital of the South Coast, and I must admit there were lots of times I could have murdered my husband and made another widow there.  HF

Taking longer on this one as the enumerator writes like a drunken octopus so there are a few more queries! JP

This "job" is addictive...I find myself today itching to have a CD to do today....I have finished my housework, made soup, and now...bored...so get a new CD to me as quickly as possible!!  Like a drug it is...DC

Oh dear...another one of those enumerators that should have had their pen taken away from them!!!...and then very faded images to boot!!!....DC