I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since I optimistically posted that I would still be blogging, but just not as frequently. Such a lot has happened in that year – I now have a fourteen month old Ally,…
35 Weeks and counting and poetry updates
It’s been a while since I blogged again but I’ve been busy getting more and more pregnant and trying to get as much of my PhD done as possible before the baby arrives. I’m now 35 weeks pregnant and officially…
Sunday Poem – Bryony Littlefair
I have somehow, after getting a bit worn down with it, managed to find my way back to enjoying blogging every Sunday again. I found my way back to this place, as with most things, through poetry, through finding poems…
PhD Musings: The Imperfect Victim/Imperfect Perpetrator
As the stories have come out and are coming out about Harvey Weinstein and more and more women are speaking out, I’ve spent a lot of my time feeling sick, with feelings of nerves and anxiety. I haven’t quite been…
PhD Musings
I’m currently reading gendering poetry by Vicki Bertram as part of my reading for my PhD. I’m absolutely loving this book – firstly because I can understand it – although it is academic, it’s very readable, and really interesting. The blurb…
Sunday Poem – Kate Wakeling
I had beautiful clear-white pages in my diary this week. It has been the first week in ages I’ve not been gallivanting around the place. I spent a large portion of it doing my tax return, or more accurately, filling…
Sunday Poem – Katie Hale
This morning, my lovely husband said ‘Let’s have an easy Sunday today and not go for a long walk’ (which was what we’d planned). Ok, I said, thinking longingly of the multiple episodes of Love Island I have to catch…
Sunday Poem – Ina Anderson
It’s been three weeks since my last blog. I was under the delusion that it had only been two – time apparently flies when you’re not blogging. Since my last blog, I’ve done a lot of swimming, which started as…
Sunday Poem – Jennifer Copley
I hope you haven’t missed me too much in this three week break (how did three weeks just fly by?). I’ve been hibernating from blogging, and getting through my last ‘busy period’. In the intervening three weeks, I’ve spent a…
Sunday Poem – Helen Mort
I’ve not been to one school christmas concert this year. I’ve not played one christmas carol, or conducted a christmas carol. This is my first end-of-term where I am not a music teacher. It obviously feels very different – this…
