S06E08: Christmas Special

Ho ho ho! Join us for a seasonal special: we review our predictions for 2019 and make some new ones for 2020, listen to a conservation version of Santa Baby, and play a parlour game we only just barely manage! Also tune in for some cracker action, a Christmas message from the Career in Ruins podcast, and an unexpected foray into wizardry as we consider the conservation Hogwarts houses. 00:00:36 Are we the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future? 00:01:28 Predictions for the year gone by - and the one to come! 00:13:53 What would go in a conservation Christmas tree? 00:17:05 Parlour game of the year - The Object on My Workbench Is… 00:32:27 Opening gifts from Christina 00:34:28 Opening our Christmas crackers 00:38:25 Review of Evolon cracker goodies 00:48:23 Christmas greetings from Career in Ruins 00:53:39 The Hogwarts Conservation Houses 01:00:55 Hurry Down the Chimney Tonight Show Notes: - Christina’s publishing course in February 2020: https://icon.org.uk/events/publishing-in-conservation-0 - Repatriation story from Manchester: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/20/manchester-museum-returns-stolen-sacred-artefacts-to-australians - Repatriation story from Cambridge: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-50578780 - Flooding in north England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_England_floods - Fires in Australia and USA: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/22/australia-bushfires-factcheck-are-this-years-fires-unprecedented and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_California_wildfires - Thefts from German museums: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/days-after-brazen-green-vault-heist-another-german-museum-targeted-thieves-180973698/ - Zabbaleen cards: https://zabbaleenproducts.com/ - James Baillie, our resident joke writer: https://twitter.com/JubalBarca - Conservation by Design: http://www.cxdinternational.com/ - Conservation Resources: https://conservation-resources.co.uk/ - Career in Ruins podcast: https://careerinruins.com/ - Wizarding World (Pottermore): https://www.wizardingworld.com/ - Another Hogwarts Houses type quiz: https://wizardmore.com/sorting-hat-x/ - Follow our singer Desislava Zlateva: https://www.youtube.com/user/DesislavaZlateva/videos and https://www.instagram.com/desislavazlateva/ *** Hurry Down the Chimney Tonight (text by Kloe Rumsey, Benjamin Fox, and Jenny Mathiasson; vocals by Desislava Zlateva) Funding bodies, slip a table under the tree for me Been working so hard Funding bodies, so hurry down the chimney tonight Funding bodies, Paraloid B72, as well I’ll wait up for you all Funding bodies, so hurry down the chimney tonight Think of all the things I’ve fixed Think of all those pastes that I have mixed Next year I’ll be just as good If you check off my Christmas list Funding bodies, I want some CPD and that’s not a lot Been so patient all year Funding bodies, please hurry down the chimney tonight Budget holders, one little thing I really need, some books To inform me all year Budget holders, so hurry down the chimney tonight Budget holders, fill my stocking with an AmEx and cheques Let’s get permission to spend Budget holders, hurry down the chimney tonight Come and stock my lab for me With some paper stocks that are acid free I really do believe you could Keep us going if you would Budget holders, forgot to mention one little thing, packing Crates for all those loans Budget holders, so hurry down the chimney tonight Hurry down the chimney tonight Hurry… Tonight *** Support us on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/thecword Hosted by Jenny Mathiasson, Kloe Rumsey, and Christina Rozeik. Intro and outro music by DDmyzik used under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Additional music and sound effects from Recisio, Sound Bible, and the YouTube Audio Library. Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. A Wooden Dice production, 2019.