Category: family
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Summer Goals (Round 2)
My summer goals • Definition of ‘ballad’ for introduction • Transcription of digital copies of ballads from MSS in the British Library, consulted last autumn. • Archive visits during summer 2013: Stonyhurst College, Lancashire County Record Office, National Archives etc • Completion of article on ballad epitaph • Revise ballad flyting chapter. These goals are…
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Home from my holiday
I think it’s fair to say that we had the best of the weather. On several days last week I got messages from friends in Manchester saying that it was raining, while I was sitting on the beach watching the children playing. Where was I? The Med? The States? No. Ireland. Donegal to be specific… …
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Out Walking
Proof, if it were needed, that I live in a beautiful part of the country. This morning we did a three and a half mile walk near Caton, Lancaster, and although we got rather wet (where did that rain come from? It wasn’t forecast…) we all rather enjoyed it. We drove back over the tops…
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Bank holiday weekend
So now I’m looking forward to a quiet family weekend. We’re thinking of having a barbecue if the weather is as good as the forecast suggests and there are several things that need doing in the garden (planting beans, putting hanging baskets together, a bit of weeding). My husband has promised to take the children…
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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 –…
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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…
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‘The Lady With the Headache…’
I swear that if I hear myself described as ‘the lady with the headache’ once more, I’m going to scream. Actually, I probably won’t, because it would hurt, but inwardly at any rate, I’d be doing a Munch. The word ‘headache’ alone doesn’t begin to describe it. Forget migraine, I’ve had them and this…
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A new one on me…
As I write this (a day late – yes, I know), I have just passed through Stafford on the Pendolino, on my way back from London, where I attended the Historical Association’s Branches and Members Committee Meeting. It’s going dark outside the windows, and in the last quarter of an hour I’ve been watching lights…
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Panel 3
I was a bag of nerves on Tuesday evening, ahead of my panel meeting on Wednesday morning, as those who saw me that evening could testify. I go giggly when I’m nervous, and it makes people who don’t know me think I’m not taking things seriously, which is not the case. Terror doesn’t quite have…
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Floundering…
It’s always like this at the start of a new piece of work. The floundering. I’m starting to investigate the music, and I have spent the last day or two looking at modal theory, finding out about hexachords, looking in to the life and times of Archbishop Matthew Parker and playing with ballad tunes. I’ve…
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