I have just found a book on Amazon entitled 'The Mallinder Name in History'!!!

http://www.amazon.com/Mallinder-Name-History-Ancestry-com/dp/B000WRK8M6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196798860&sr=1-1

I am definitely going to buy it!

I am in Skopje. It's really cold and foggy and I have to give three lectures tomorrow. Bah.

So a bit of an overdue update ( Read more... )

So the past week.... Bill Bailey was really good and Wednesday night. He had some technical problems with the sound and it was the first night of the tour, which made it a bit disorganised (although I think it is difficult to distinguish that from his general presentation style). Nonetheless, we was incredibly funny and very endearing. Also with it ( Read more... )

The past week has been OK. On Tuesday Rich and I went to see Counterfeiters at QFT which was amazing, best film I have seen ages. Wednesday I had French class and Thursday was wine tasting. This week was Argentinian wines. I didn't like them as much as Chilean ones, and I realised that I definitely don't like chardonnay. The class spent a lot of ( Read more... )

I am feeling pretty shattered at the moment - too much work, it feels like writing up my PhD all over again. I fact I have written 30,000 in the past 8 days, plus doing editing and reading lots. I think the amount of work has been keeping me awake at night, hence the tiredness. I finished working through the changes to my book today though so ( Read more... )

It has been a pretty quiet week, mostly because I worked from home on Tuesday (waiting for oil delivery), Wednesday (sore throat) and Friday (wanting peace and quiet to write). Friday was the first day in ages that I have written anything from scratch, rather than just editing stuff. I was writing about the conflict in Uganda - the history and what ( Read more... )

I have been feeling a bit grotty the past week but starting to recover now. I haven't been up to too much. Tuesday I worked late reading Kieran's book, which I finished on Wednesday. Wednesday night I started my French evening classes again which was fun. Thursday I started trying to organise travel. I booked my trip to Belgium for November. I ( Read more... )

It was a really busy weekend. I had a quiet morning in Geneva, obsessing over Burma on BBC World, buying Swiss chocolate and reading Miriam's Dave Gorman book - hilarious, it made my journey home so pleasurable (I'm about to start the other one now!) I headed to the airport at about midday and got trapped in some ridiculous kitsch Swiss holding ( Read more... )

I went to my UN meeting as a expert today. It went OK. I still have to improve my communication/persuasion skills for this meeting, but I managed to find the courage to tell the OHCHR that I thought their position was dubious and I found some agreement. I also criticised some points of the report in a lawyerly fashion (citing article 1(1) of the ( Read more... )