Graduation dress

I got my dress to graduate in, huzzah! 

November

Hello!  I have now finished my M.A. and have returned to the world of full time work.  I really miss my M.A. so have begun volunteering at National Trust Properties and local archives (but more about that in another post!) I miss the rummaging around in archives, and finding out secrets from the past.  I think I will have to try fill this in my weekends and evenings with book reading and museum/gallery visits.

My visit to Salcombe in Devon was amazing, but went so fast!  We stayed in a house on the sea front called Pitchford House (how nice is the kitchen!)

I loved that house.... we are going again next September!  There were stone steps onto a huge balcony that over looked the bay where we could drink coffee and eat Tom's birthday cake and watch boats go past.  I don't know if it was so idyllic because the weather was so so hot (hot weather in England in October!) but I can't wait to go back. 


 
 


 

Since finishing my M.A it is a little weird getting used to the fact that my evenings and weekends are mine again.  I am slowly realising that I can do whatever I want in this time.  There’s so much I want to do but I think I will split it over different posts (I want to go away at the weekend more, read more, watch more films, cook more!)  Firstly I want to start going to the cinema again more to see really great films.  Recently I have seen:

      

   

(I only managed to watch about thirty minutes of Snow Town.  It was too violent/sadistic for me... I'm not saying it isn't a good film I just couldn't keep watching it). 

In the next two weeks I should be seeing:

 

 

I can't wait! 

September

Hello! I am now back.  I have completely finished my M.A. in Historical Research and should be getting my results in the next two months.  It all got really stressful towards the end... my dissertation was 25,000 words and I was also working 30 hours a week at my job.  I ended up getting 5am trains down to London to do last bits of research, and frantically writing every second of the day.  I hope I do okay.  I have also left my room at the university, my 'study corner' behind! 

 

The rooms on campus are all exactly the same, so I basically stuck postcards on everything.

But now I am finished and can start blogging again.  I will be working full time in my job at the university but aside from that I am looking forward to doing lots of fun things including being generally more healthy.  I have arranged to start volunteering at three places: two are National Trust houses, and the third is a county archive.  All three are history related and will involve me doing a variety of fun things to do with curating, archiving, and being generally nosy.  But more on those soon!  

For breakfast this morning I made myself porridge with chopped bananas, syrup and lots of cinnamon and have been lazing around reading my Kindle.  I love having no essays to write! 

I am also off to Salcombe in Devon next weekend so will post lots of pictures then. 

Kendal Calling

Hello August!

I have just got back, well two days ago, from Kendal Calling.  We got to see Blonde... which made me very happy.  Tom lifted me up to see her and it was amaaazing!


Aside from that I have been on a camping trip and eating Bakewell tarts from Bakewell itself, procrastinating, saying goodbye to people, and thinking about getting some volunteering sorted for September for when I finish my MA and will be sad.  Aside from this I want to learn to drive, to cook, and to take more (and one day maybe even good) pictures.

On that note here are some pictures of Kendal Calling Festival (29th July-1st August 2011).

Tasty gingerbread snacks

We dressed up as zebras, a lion, and a man with extra seeing eyes...

Hello :)

KC has lots and lots of tasty vegetarian food and isn't ridiculously expensive.

Shisha and jenga

Fire poi

Right off I go.