Category: family
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Happy Anniversary Doctor Who
Just as an aside, nothing to do with anything else, can I just say a belated Happy 50th to Doctor Who. One very happy family sat on the sofa together with a packet of curly wurlies and thoroughly enjoyed the special last night. Brilliant. Particularly amused to find out why Elizabeth I never married, of…
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Transcribing and Broadcasting
I went back to work on Wednesday, when my children went back to school. Most of my work this week has been on transcriptions of manscripts from the British Library but I’ve also read some secondary material. I’ve carried on working today, because despite my intentions to spend three whole days immersed in my primary…
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End of the Summer Holidays
So far, so good. I’ve managed to successfully avoid doing any work on my PhD for two weeks. This may not seem like a cause for celebration (indeed, bits of me are itching to open a book or rifle through a few ballads or even do some filing) but I am extremely poor at doing…
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Time off
I’m having a couple of weeks off! So far I have successfully avoided doing any work on my thesis and this is good. Instead, I’ve done a lot of work for the Historical Association. Also, I did a 4.5 mile walk from Garstang, which I have to say wasn’t the most interesting walk I’ve done…
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Art Everywhere
Fittingly, the first Art Everywhere poster that I saw was the Pelican Portrait of Elizabeth I! It was on the concourse of Oxford Station. Then on the way home from the Cotswolds we stopped at a motorway service station and saw the Ambassadors, Blaze 4, For You and Whistlejacket. Apparently my husband and children saw…
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Fun in the Cotswolds
Generally speaking, I’m useless at doing nothing. Even if I’m watching television I am usually doing something else at the same time. However, on Monday evening I found myself doing just that – staring out the front of the tent into space and doing absolutely nothing. It didn’t last long, but I think it showed…
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Summer goals update
I thought I’d give you a quick update on my progress towards my summer goals: • Definition of ‘ballad’ for introduction. I’m part way through this, although it needs a LOT more work. I’m discussing it with friends that I met at the Psalm Culture conference in London in July and I’ve given it a…
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Wicken Fen
By far the most exciting visit we made on our trip to Cambridge was to Wicken Fen Nature Reserve. Apparently it’s the fifth oldest National Trust property and it was absolutely brilliant. I’ve liked dragonflies ever since I was a child, possibly because I see less of them than other insects, and Wicken Fen is…
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Juggling
Juggling, I have discovered this week, isn’t easy. I can only assume that this time last year I was so taken up with the prospect of moving house that the PhD took a back seat to packing boxes and playing with my children. I didn’t have my summer panel meeting until the middle of August…
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Summer Holidays
Yesterday, my three children broke up for the summer. This will have a significant, negative impact on the amount of work I get done, of course, but that was always part of the deal. My summer action plan contains lots of little bits of work that can be broken off part way through, like transcriptions,…
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