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  • Moving House

    Today’s the day I move house, so this will be my last post for a while, until I get the new house sorted and the children settled in and a new broadband connexion, and indeed, until I have some more work to report on!

  • A sigh of relief and more camping

    This week I went up to Cumbria for a few days camping in Arnside, which was very nice.  Definitely not glamping, but nice, not least because we didn’t have the torrential rain that we had in Oban.  In fact, yesterday I got sunburned. Anyway, with my progression panel approaching rapidly, I decided that I would…

  • Ignoring the Olympics

    Lots of people that I know have been complaining about the Olympics, and how London 2012 is getting in the way of their thesis.  Not in this house.  I have no problem with the Olympics distracting me, partly because I have no interest in them, but mainly because there are too many other distractions in…

  • Summertime…

    Well, finally I have a date for my second panel, the progression panel, the one which I have been trying hard to think of as just another hoop that needs to be jumped through. 14th August. I have produced an abstract, bibliography and a draft chapter plan, and a rough plan of what I intend…

  • Camping

    This week I’ve had a week off.  I’ve been in Scotland camping, and reading Judith Richards’ ‘Mary Tudor’.  So it’s been a quiet week, and I deliberately didn’t take my chapter with me so that I can come back to it with fresh eyes in a week or two.  I’m seeing my supervisor again next…