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Update on my ribcage
Just in case any of you are interested, I spent more than three hours in casualty this morning getting my ribs checked out, and having had an x-ray the doctors think they are probably not fractured. So they’ve given me stronger painkillers and told me to rest, which is fine by me. And as I…
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Bump, bump, clatter, clatter, clatter…
And then I fell down the stairs. I slipped off the top step for no apparent reason and slid all the way down the stairs on my back. I don’t recommend it. For one thing it is, as a friend put it, undignified. But for another, it’s hellishly painful. And what’s more, despite the excruciating…
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Clearing the desk.
On Monday morning I started the day by reading a couple of posts by the Thesis Whisperer. The first was on time management, and it gave me an idea. http://thethesiswhisperer.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/time-can-you-ever-really-manage-it/ I’ve wondered for a while whether the way I was taking notes was the most useful and practical, mainly because I suspected that it wasn’t. …
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Writing again!
Since my Spanish exam on Tuesday, I’ve been able to get back to a bit of writing (and a lot of reading again). I’m supposed to have come up with 2000 words by the end of the month, towards which I contributed 300 or so on Friday. I’ve already got 1000 so it’s getting there. …
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Country Fayre
Today I have been at Bromley Cross Country Fayre, with the Bolton HA branch president, representing the branch. Last year it was really productive, and we talked to lots of people, so we were very enthusiastic about being there again. Unfortunately this year, a stall location in the back of beyond combined with traffic chaos…
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“Mama, tengo un dolor de cabeza…”
In the last week I’ve been working very hard on my Spanish, as I’ve had my end of term Spanish exams. The second written paper was last week, and my last day of revision was kiboshed by my eldest son being sent home from school at 11am having attempted to break the tarmac of the…
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Fighting the snake
The snake fight portion of your thesis defence: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq-the-snake-fight-portion-of-your-thesis-defense#.T57KGz08pjA.twitter Brilliant! Even my husband enjoyed it!
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Lucy Worsley, children and history
I’ve just read the interview with Lucy Worsley printed in this week’s Radio Times. I should make it clear now that I haven’t, to the best of my knowledge, seen any of her television work. I don’t watch much television, and even less history on television, as it tends to get on my nerves. I…
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Reading, reading and more reading.
This week has been hard. I’m tired. Very tired. If it were just the work, it would be fine, but the added pressure of parenthood is difficult at times, and this was one of them. I’ve been reading (yes, again). Mainly theoretical stuff on monarchical republic and oral culture. A friend pointed out that I…
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Letters
Today I’ve been looking at Cardinal Reginald Pole’s letters. It’s an interesting, European perspective on Mary’s accession. To be honest I’ve not got a great deal done this week. I haven’t been feeling very well, and I suspect that I’ve been overdoing things over Easter trying to keep the children occupied as well as doing…
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