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Splurge
I’ve spent a considerable proportion of the week splurging my second chapter. Second only in the sense of the second one that I’ve written, not that it will necessarily be the second one in the thesis. It feels good to have a bit more of it on paper, even if it isn’t really even a…
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Starry, starry night
You may by now have noticed that I like my garden birds. I have just been standing out in the garden, which backs on to a playing field and beyond that, the countryside, admiring all the stars and appreciating the song of the male tawny owl that lives nearby. I’ve never seen it, but I’ve…
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Writing the Fox
I have been reading ‘the Hunting and Finding out of the Romish Fox’ by William Turner. If I’m honest, it’s something I’ve been putting off because of the density of the text, but it’s actually turned out to be nothing like I expected. Obviously it’s heavily based on metaphor, but it’s rhetorical style is pretty…
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Welcome to 2013
And so a new year begins. I have spent a lot of it so far cataloguing ballads, to the extent that my analysis spreadsheet is now so enormous that I am probably going to have to take it to the university print services department to get it printed out – I guess it will be…
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Back to work
So I took Boxing Day off as well as Christmas Day, and went back to work yesterday by reading Robert Hutchinson’s biography of Thomas Cromwell. I can’t say I was impressed, not least because I came across three of my pet hate ‘must have’s (that is, “s/he must have thought/been/looked etc”) by the bottom of…
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It’s Christmas!
I’m taking a break from the madness to say merry Christmas. I have a house full of family, five children playing games together on my living room floor; lots of food on the table and a kitchen full of cooking smells. Christmas, it seems, starts here.
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Apocalypse now?
I’m sorry, I’ve got to say this: It’s twaddle. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on pre-conquest Latin American culture and the impact of the Spaniards, particularly on the Aztecs, but they believed that the world had ‘ages’ and no Mayan said the world as a whole would end tonight. Apart from which, whose ‘midnight’ are…
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Brain cell
GIANTmicrobes | Brain Cell (Neuron). If anyone should feel a wish to buy me a last minute Christmas present, this would be perfect. I have a ‘brain cell’ mug that I’ve had since I was an undergraduate, and this would be its perfect postgraduate companion.
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Christmas Break
I decided at lunchtime today that I’m stopping now for Christmas. I’ve still got all the presents to wrap and a lot of sorting out to do before my Christmas visitors arrive, so having got my last self-imposed deadline out of the way yesterday, I am going to give myself some time off. I may…
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