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The HA Response to Michael Gove’s Attack
Publication date: Friday 10th May 2013 Cartoons and Mr Men On the morning of Thursday 9th May the Secretary of State for Education delivered a speech at Brighton College entitled “What does it mean to be an educated person?” The focus of the speech is a criticism of those who have opposed his department’s proposals…
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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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Spring has sprung at last
Weather-wise, it’s been a much better week. Yesterday the weather was beautiful, but unfortunately I wasn’t in a fit state to enjoy it. My eldest kindly brought a bug home from school earlier in the week and having had a sleepless night on Tuesday, I wasn’t in a fit state to kick it out of…
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Happy days
Well, the planning paid off. At least in as much as I got through my big supervision meeting on Wednesday without making a complete fool of myself. Actually, they seemed to be quite impressed with the content, if not entirely by the structure, of the work I submitted. My music specialist gave me lots of…
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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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Writing Like Those I Admire, part 2
A couple of weeks ago I reblogged a post from Pat Thomson “This post began in exactly this way, with a five am wondering about what my favorite academic books would say about – and to – me. As I started to go through the books I’d put on a very, very short list I…
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The research paradox
As I posted on twitter, I have hit upon a paradox in my work. The more I read, the more I want to write. The more I write, the more I need to read. This one’s a difficult one. Here’s where I am. Yesterday I read through my musicological ballad analysis chapter and started to…
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