Short Notes Well thank you for allowing me to take part in the workshop last week. I’m not an artist even though once in response to a question I asked an artist I was told that if I did what I was proposing that I’d have to accept I was an artist. But I never …
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dishonesty
I wrote a literature review for an academic in the department on LEPs, Local Enterprise Partnerships. It is far from my field but the work was well recieved and I’ve been offered the chance to co-author an article. It’s given me a lot of pleasure to do some work which is appreciated. It’s also made …
Mecca
How much longer I wonder?
fractidying
Cleaning the house and in the kitchen I get obsessed with crumbs and dust near the cooker and sweep it up for the umpteenth time. I realise there is no end to tidying. Like investigations of social life. The political scientist in me looks at street layouts, the sociologist orders the whole house, the anthropologist …
Outsider
I always feel like an outsider except when I really am one.
Dean and Saskia at the Allotment Shop!
Looking like they ought to look.
All possible futures
So I’ve been wanting to write this for some time. It’s something to do with all possible futures. We have been to Cornwall as a family over the recent Easter holidays and on the return journey we stopped in a service station. One of the children had some sort of toasted Italian penny type sandwich …
I dream of Alaigne once more
Well after my fieldwork was completed and towards the end of writing this thesis I had a dream. Alaigne was a river and I was to cross the river. The water level was low compared to what I knew it could be and this was good because I wore Wellington boots that came up to …
I dreamed of Alaigne
“John thinks you are not honest – you don’t really care.” “But I’m here two weeks” I replied, wondering at first who John was at first. [Two weeks to complete this thesis John]
forgery at Wells
To enter the cathedral of Wells you must first pass through the cloister. The south west tower of the cathedral abut the arcades of the cloister. Entering at the back of the nave to your left are the lower rows of dressed masonry stone forming the base of one of the south west tower. Low …