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  • Happy days

    Well, the planning paid off. At least in as much as I got through my big supervision meeting on Wednesday without making a complete fool of myself.  Actually, they seemed to be quite impressed with the content, if not entirely by the structure, of the work I submitted.  My music specialist gave me lots of…

  • The forgotten art of planning

    On Friday afternoon I sent off first draft of my first chapter to my supervisors.  It’s been a tough week, as on Monday evening I was really struggling to make the chapter work because it had just evolved out of my notes.  I couldn’t get the separate bits of the chapter to hang together –…

  • PhD and parenting…

    I think it might be a fortnight since I last posted an update on my work, but as it’s been the children’s Easter holidays, I’ve not had all that much time either to work, or to write about it on my blog. There have been several family trips out, for example to Brockholes and Sizergh…

  • Writing Like Those I Admire, part 2

    A couple of weeks ago I reblogged a post from Pat Thomson “This post began in exactly this way, with a five am wondering about what my favorite academic books would say about – and to – me. As I started to go through the books I’d put on a very, very short list I…

  • The research paradox

    As I posted on twitter, I have hit upon a paradox in my work. The more I read, the more I want to write.   The more I write, the more I need to read.  This one’s a difficult one.  Here’s where I am. Yesterday I read through my musicological ballad analysis chapter and started to…