Happy New Year, folks! I can’t complain about 2013 really; I got to spend the summer researching and writing my MA dissertation, got a distinction for it, started my PhD (making some lovely new friends in the process), and had a fab holiday in Amsterdam when I wasn’t working.
DISCLAIMER: This piece of research is based on the experiences of a very small number of Paul Thompson’s interview transcripts, which can be found through the UK Data Service. I don’t have any plans to include Christmas as a separate subject in my thesis, though it may form a part of a larger section on loneliness. Even then, I’ll have used a lot more sources and I don’t expect it to bear any resemblance to this post.
This week has mostly involved two books - one I loved, one I hated. I’m going to talk about the one I hated first, so I can get the negativity out of the way. I’ll also say less about it as I want this blog to be positive (and not like essay criticism where there seems to be a rule that the negative paragraph has to be the same length as the positive one, however minor the criticisms are!).
This is the first of the more wordy blog posts I hope to make at least once a week. I think I’ll usually do them on Fridays. I try not to work at the weekend but I thought I’d do this one today so my new blog doesn’t just consist of two photos! If anyone wants to follow me on here, please be aware that I can only follow back on my primary account, which is silly and frivolous so please don’t feel obliged to follow that one too.
