Over Christmas I sorted out the slide collection, and a week ago, the box arrived back.  I am now starting to put them, a box at a time, up onto flickr.  This morning's was easy, as it was slides ExMemSec had taken as a boy.  Isle of Wight in the 1970s, that sort of thing.

I have a nice cheque from mother-in-law, which will I am sure make a dent in ( Read more... )

Thank you all who offered, on lj and offline, very sensible suggestions and very generous offers.

Yes, 'get www.caerlas.something' is on the to-do list....

This morning, ExMemSec discovered that he had  been able to get his 1gig of free myzen space to work .... and here it is:
http://www.zen156113.zen.co.uk/

There is still some work to do on it [ ( Read more... )

I have found out that the Archaeology Data Service, which said yes, they would host my thesis website, actually meant yes, they would put up my thesis as .doc, .dbf, .avi and so on.  Which is not the same thing as my website, and will entail a lot of work ( Read more... )

Another stage reached with my thesis.  ExMemSec has just printed out Map 4.7 again, and that's it all printed out and ready to go and be bound when he goes to York next week. I have found a lovely seminar taking place in Ghana (http://oieahc.wm.edu/conferences/ ( Read more... )

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Thank you all for your kind thanks!

Your support over the (many!) years is why I am going to be (on 25th Jan, I think), Dr Muuranker!

Whee!  Waves glass of fizzy wine in the air.  

So far today I have re-read my preface and chapter one.

I have drooled over the Gudrun catalogue, and just about made up my mind to buy this blouse:


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I thought I'd posted this earlier, but obviously not .... the network at King's Manor is a little flaky ( Read more... )

The thesis is in the bindery. I finished proofing and printing at lunchtime today, and walked over to ExMemSec's office to copy it. After discovering that his copier has a max load of 40 copies, that he didn't know how to press one button for 3 lots of 40, but had to press the button again and again for the second and third set, and that the ( Read more... )

... one of the benefits of a higher education is that it prevents you from thinking (or so it seems!).

What I meant to journal was some thoughts on the 'To Do' list.

I am getting very excited (bang - there goes my blood glucose level again) about the thought of having my life back completing my PhD.  Surprisingly so.  I thought I hated completing ( Read more... )