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Bookends
A friend at university shared this article on Facebook: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/07/bookshelf-say-about-you although she pointed out that it doesn’t take into account the way people own things that they want people to think that they’ve read. Anyway, it got me thinking about my own bookshelf. Or rather, bookshelves. Offhand, I can think of 3 bookcases and 3…
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The second best news of the year
Anyone who has been following this blog for a while, or who has bothered to go back and look through my archive, will know that this time last year, things weren’t really going according to plan. I arrived in Manchester to discover that my supervisor was on medical leave, and the university had to find…
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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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Back to Work
On Tuesday morning, the children started their new school, so I went back to work in earnest, trying out my new study (a great success, but more on that another time). I spent Tuesday reading a couple of books that I needed to take back to the library, and on Wednesday we had another meeting…
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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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