Meant to post about this before now, but didn't get round to it, apparently. In my dissertation research I came across the following quote:

"This dispute [between different Catholic factions in early modern England] was, on the surface, a series of arguments about the patterns and institutions of clerican authority via which English Catholics were ( Read more... )

I am finally home for Christmas. I handed my essay in on Friday morning, and I think I've done reasonably well. In the past I've been told I'm not analytical enough, so I've done a lot of close reading and analysed the language/imagery. I then got the train up to Granny's. Nearly five hours from Exeter to Leeds, but it was all on time and I even ( Read more... )

Seeing as it's the icon I'm using this time, I'd better start with

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Things are happening. Workshops are being confirmed. We have Kate Rusby, Jim Causeley & Jackie Oates, and the Demon Barber Roadshow concerts. For ceilidhs we have Stomp (Firefox isn't letting me do the unlaut over the 'o') with Gordon Potts calling, Committee Band with Nick ( Read more... )

I got the report (FINALLY) from the Educational Psychologist via the DRC yesterday. It was meant to take 2 weeks to come through and it took 6. It's offical - I'm dyslexic. Which is actually a relief, because all last year and this term I've been feeling quite stupid and slow and dim because I've been struggling to get through the texts (my reading ( Read more... )

Burnley FC is currently managerless. Cotterill resigned yesterday, and Steve Davis (former player, one of the coaches and the player that my mother says is "dishy") is caretaker-manager for the time being. I'm sorry to see Cotterill go, actually - considering our financial constraints, he's done well and was a bloody good manager. *sighs* Oh well; ( Read more... )

The new Exeter Uni TolkSoc president is kinda stressed out right now.

You only need to click on one of the cuts - it's been split up into sections because of where I posted it to on a forum I'm on.

DfES (Department for Education and Skills) are really bugging me at the moment. They have nothing on their website about Meares-Irlen except a link to ( Read more... )

I don't like Philip Larkin's poetry. It's I'm-a-cynical-miserable-old-git kind of stuff. Most of the people on my course are revaing about how good he is, whereas I'm just not at all. I'm not that big a fan of poetry. I'd rather have a novel or play to look at. This is why I didn't put down either of the creative writing modules on my second-year ( Read more... )