Category: writing
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Easter holidays
This week is the first week of my children’s Easter holiday, so I am juggling childcare with work. Cramming little bits of work into wherever it will fit isn’t easy and it certainly doesn’t allow for extended research or writing, for example. But there are little things that I can do. I went through a…
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Lyndal Roper and news
I’ve spent a lot of time in the company of Luther in the last few days, courtesy of Professor Lyndal Roper and Manchester’s Dr Jenny Spinks. Prof Roper’s seminar on Thursday evening described Luther’s polemical writing as an expression of his masculinity, but surprised many of the audience with his scatology and lewdness. On Friday…
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How I turned into the woman who can stare at a single word for half an hour…
…wondering if it is exactly the right one to use in that particular place and if there is any way possible in which it could be misunderstood. I love words. I love the way there is always a perfect word no matter what you want to say, if you can only find it. But one…
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Panel and Paper
This week has been half term, so I’ve spent quite a bit of time playing with my children. We’ve been on a couple of walks, one round Tarn Hows in the Lake District and one from Wrea Green on the Fylde, close to where I grew up. But this has also been the week…
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It’s gone!
I have finally sent off my commonwealth chapter to my panel, ahead of my meeting with them next week. I’m in a slightly different position to normal in that I was able to send it with a message telling them where I wanted help and where I hoped to expand it when I come to…
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Rebel without a clue
This afternoon’s job is to re-read a couple of articles by Ethan Shagan, because I suddenly realised that I have my 1549 rebels all mixed up together in my chapter and I don’t know which ones are which. This opening up of the ground under my commonwealth chapter’s feet occurred yesterday afternoon and left me…
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Tidings of Good News
I was warned on Wednesday that my luck will have to run out eventually. That may not sound too much like good news, but the converse is, of course, that, in order to provoke the comment, things must be going relatively well at the moment. Work on the commonwealth chapter continues, with some quite major…
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Finally, a good week!
After a couple of dodgy days at the beginning, the week has definitely ended on a high. I spent quite a lot of time at the beginning of the week consolidating the ideas that my trip to the British Library generated and I wrote a thousand words in a couple of hours, bringing together my…
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Dread Again
[I’m told that for some people this dangled mid-sentence and never got to the point I wanted to make, so I’m trying it again] It has been a relatively quiet week. I spent two days working on my chapter, determined to get something that vaguely resembled a draft ready before I went to London. …
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Fibre optic cranes and writing the common weal
I don’t have a lot to tell, this week (after all, it’s only a couple of days since I last posted) so I thought I’d just share the good news that I’d managed to write a bit of my common weal chapter and then post some photos of some of my favourite birds from today’s…
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