The kitchen is finished (except for the roller blind) and its everything we hoped. It is light and bright and we love the handleless cabinets everyone said we would regret. The fitters were pleasant and all the work is excellent. TSH had another moment when he decided to sand the ceiling and there was dust everywhere and he was not Popular. But that is now all in the past.
I'm back at work on the lyrics of Cohen. I have a workplan, with time-table. The first job is to prepare a paper which I am hoping to submit to 'Journal of Popular Music'. The first problem is Popular . (sorry about the puns - Cohen's latest album is called Popular Problems). So all the numerical data from the dissertation is now outdated. I have started reworking it all and although all the numbers have changed, the conclusions are not affected as far as I can tell at the moment. Phew!!
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Wednesday, 25 February 2015
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Some progress
I managed to write a few hundred words yesterday - focus on the way Cohen uses pronouns so its not clear who everybody is. Have listened to the new album again - still love it.
Our Tai Chi class has been closed, which is concerning because its important for our health. And we have friends we only ever see there, so we'll never see them again. It was inevitable this would happen because numbers were dwindling but we never expected at the end of a class to be told there would be no more classes. So do we join another one? Or just give up, as I have not enjoyed the classes for years and found them more and more stressful. But TSH wants to go. And its a health thing.
We'll be glad when we get a new kitchen, as the dishwasher is giving more and more problems.
Baking Christmas cake this weekend.
Our Tai Chi class has been closed, which is concerning because its important for our health. And we have friends we only ever see there, so we'll never see them again. It was inevitable this would happen because numbers were dwindling but we never expected at the end of a class to be told there would be no more classes. So do we join another one? Or just give up, as I have not enjoyed the classes for years and found them more and more stressful. But TSH wants to go. And its a health thing.
We'll be glad when we get a new kitchen, as the dishwasher is giving more and more problems.
Baking Christmas cake this weekend.
Monday, 22 September 2014
First Ink
I have started to write the chapter on 'who is everybody?' and have written a few hundred words about the narrator. Whilst I don't think the writing will be too difficult as I have lots of material, the discipline involved (without the deadlines associated with a course) will be tremendous. Even at 1,000 words EVERY week, it will take almost two years to get to book length.
Yesterday I went to a reunion of the women from my year at Bury Convent Grammar School (now Holy Cross College). Everybody is still lively and getting a lot out of life.
Today British Gas are in residence, fitting our new boiler. They are mostly in the kitchen but also need access to all radiators, the tank in the loft and the airing cupboard. They seem very nice, polite and considerate.
Big day today - new Cohen album - listened to it once - a triumph!!
Yesterday I went to a reunion of the women from my year at Bury Convent Grammar School (now Holy Cross College). Everybody is still lively and getting a lot out of life.
Today British Gas are in residence, fitting our new boiler. They are mostly in the kitchen but also need access to all radiators, the tank in the loft and the airing cupboard. They seem very nice, polite and considerate.
Big day today - new Cohen album - listened to it once - a triumph!!
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