Well, that was a rather unproductive Friday.  I spent a lot of time achieving not much on the Thesis.  Standardizing Guelderland/Gelderland was the height of my acomplishment ( Read more... )

2.5 But only managed to reduce it by 500 words.

( ETA Update )

Section 2.4 now done. 17,200 words in Chapter 2 .... still too many. I am hoping that the three final sections are as full of dead wood as section 2.4 was.

Thank you all for your encouraging words!

Here is an amazing double rainbow from last month that I have been too busy to post until now.


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Chapter nine (3000 words) has made it.

Now to take the hatchet to chapter 2.

... Chapter 8.

I have also got the figures in 8.1 to work (case sensitivity issues).

Chapter 6!

Also tweaked website for Ch. 4.

Put clothes away.

Ate another Danish pastry. They are little ones.  They come in tubs of ten from Morrisons.  Two of them have raisins in, so that's a portion of fruit.  But I have eaten the custard ones.

A mushroom stuffed with cheese, and patatas bravas.

A smarties biscuit.

The trouble is, there is just too ( Read more... )

Chapter 5.

And I finished the ironing.

On the down side I have already eaten three crisps, a muffin with egg and bacon, and a Danish pastry.

I know some of you are interested in 'race'/ethnicity and science fiction, and some of you have written about it, so here is a link to a project that looks interesting.  The  deadline/date of 26th has passed, but she meant  next Monday.

Meanwhile, chapter 4 is getting sorted (and up on the website ... I shall tinker with it in due course ... some ( Read more... )

Rather belatedly - should have been this time last week, but got a bug - I have finished the major re-write of Chapter Five ( Read more... )

Yesterday went less well. Partly due to frustrations at translation difficulties. What sort of a word is nääf? The Swedish wasn't the worst ( Read more... )