Category: just for fun
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▶ Reno erat Rudolphus by eyolfos
▶ Reno erat Rudolphus by eyolfos. I will get back to my blog properly by the end of the week, I promise. But in the meantime, this appealed to my sense of fun. The strangest stuff turns up on Facebook. Earlier in the week one of my friends posted a video of a group of…
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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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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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From the Observer: Why the Incas offered up child sacrifices | Science | The Observer
It’s possible that some of you will be aware that my undergraduate dissertation was about the Aztecs and rooted in a course that I took on ‘The First Hundred Years of the Spanish in America‘. I’ve never quite managed to shake my interest in all things Aztec, Inca and Conquistador, so this article in the…
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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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Cambridge Archives
I spent this week in Cambridge. I’ve not been back to Cambridge since I went to the folk festival in 1994, where I got showered in (someone else’s) beer when the Saw Doctors came on stage and everyone cheered. That was before I got my A-level results. At eighteen, I was offered a place at…
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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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