The week before last I was rather on a roll, I thought, in terms of getting somewhat forrader on various projects in the pipeline -

And then last week I was drooping around feeling a rather sad miz weary hedjog, due to sleeping badly, which was mostly due to the achey bits deciding to be particularly achey or flaring up after having long been ( Read more... )

Sitting and watching video content on my computer, unless it's really, really short.
But I was thinking of making an exception, because, hey, Ursula K Le Guin:
PBS’s Documentary About Ursula K. Le Guin is Free to Watch This Week
- except, apparently not in the UK?
Whinge, moan.
Though this is not the first time I have had similar disappointments ( Read more... )

Bread made during week: used up the bag of Waitrose Malted Mixed Seed Bread Flour: v nice loaf.

Saturday breakfast rolls: basic buttermilk, 50:50 strong white/white spelt, v good.

There was something of a problem with the Sainsbury's order, and what I had anticipated for Saturday evening was not available and there was No Substitution provided, so ( Read more... )

I am coming around to a consideration that I am officially An Old and in a risk group, though only by reason of age and not for any concomitant reason of health, and therefore that international travel is probably not going to be the most sensible of ideas in the foreseeable future.
I note that An Institution with which I have some association has ( Read more... )

You would think I would be a happy little researcher bunny/hedjog/mongoose to have Speshul Test Access to the digital version of an archive to which I have already paid a couple of visits in spite of its Extreme Remoteness from, well, pretty much anywhere else one might be going, and to which I have remarked, really need to go back.
And really, I ( Read more... )

My dearios may have been aware, over the past, oh, maybe it amounts to a couple of months? of a terrible whingeing noise emanating herefrom about A Thing I was solicited to do -
- at fairly short notice to a rather tight deadline and rather strict parameters and involving various things over which I had no control -
- and going forward with ( Read more... )

Actually, Durham. I am being Reputed Authority in Field at a workshop tomorrow at the university.
I am madly impressed that I got all the papers with several days in hand to read and think about: this is not always the case.
Also I am madly reassured to discover that college accommodation is spacious and ensuite, even if - and I have found this ( Read more... )

Always a good thing to have got one's presentation over and done with.
Rather too early a start, whinge.
A very gratifying solicitation to submit a more polished version of my paper (which has indeed gained appreciation) for the Society's Essay Prize: but am strongly of the opinion that someone with my track record should leave the field clear for ( Read more... )

And it was, overall, a good one.
(Though I was somewhat narked that both kinds of edibles at the closing reception had cheese in - honestly, who puts cheese in a chicken pasty thing? I don't even - so I couldn't fill up on those. Was obliged instead to have a v indifferent meal at a place I had noticed in the next block to the B&B, having nixed the ( Read more... )

Yet again, my phone has apparently been using up credit all by itself - I texted home with my safe arrival yesterday, and got the usual automessage with my balance, which looked more or less as expected, and then this morning I tried to ring home and was told the balance was zero.
I can't even.
Also, I am so over university campuses which lack any ( Read more... )