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My study
It’s ever so nice. Now that I’ve moved house, I have my own study. Okay, so it has a futon in it for when people come to stay, but that’s quite handy because it means I can snuggle up with a book when I’m reading. It’s got enough space to work, and more to the…
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New home, new desk, new school, new study!
We have now settled into our new home in a small, rural Lancashire town, having been here almost two weeks. Tomorrow I face my first long commute to Manchester after the move, and I can’t say I’m looking forward to it at all, but I hope that point of view as well as many others,…
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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!
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Society for Renaissance Studies Conference
I’ve just spent three days at the Society for Renaissance Studies Conference in Manchester, and very stimulating it was too. It was nice to meet some new people and hear about their work, and a few people I’ve spoken to have been interested in my work and offered to keep in touch. There were some…
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The Doldrums
It hasn’t been a particularly good week for research and writing, I must say. The persistent, rainy weather hasn’t helped, and neither has the extra stress caused by the impending house move, but I really lost my way this week. After the writing group, I tried to implement some of the more useful changes they…
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Originally posted on Avoiding The Bears: In my most recent meeting with my supervisor, he made an observation that I think I’m going to come to regard as fateful. ‘There comes a time in a PhD’, he said, ‘when you have to stop lying’. It wasn’t quite as devastating as that appears. My supervisor has…
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