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The plan for this weekend was to get the 'Every Child Matters' articles sorted out and ready for insertion in the relevant bit of the thesis (which is pending, really it is - I finally figured out where Neighbourhood Policing fits!). On Sunday, when sun was expected, I had a list of gardening things to do.

What actually happened? For some bizarre, inexplicable reason I found myself sorting out the box of accounts papers that's been sitting around for over 2 years waiting for me to do something with it. I have sorted, typed out, thrown away and shredded at length. And the sun barely put in an appearance today, so although I did some tidying up in the garden and watered in the greenhouse, that's all I did.

Sigh. So much for plans. Oh well, I'll just have to force myself to do some thesis work in the evenings this week ...

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: Usual
Current Music: None

There will be one, I'm sure of it. The stacks of paper are reducing - although I must confess much of what I'm looking at is what my professor would call 'background'. However, how can you talk about the foreground if you don't understand the background fully?! At any rate, the piles of paper are going down, and I'm not adding anything new any more (there was a point where every new article I read led to me collecting another 5 or 6 ...). So, well behind schedule, but still plugging away!

So far this Easter I have:

(a) washed the car
(b) planted two lilac trees (this involved removing turf, and digging quite deep holes in very hard ground full of builders' rubble)
(c) been to Milton Keynes to check out academic resources at the Open University library, and visit Lush (of course)
(d) weeded the back garden (not as onerous as it used to be - I must be winning!)
(e) taken Phoebesmum to her mother's, and made polite (I hope!) conversation
(f) watched Dr Who
(g) filed away the remaining bits of academic paper, so that I can buckle down to some serious thesis preparation
(h) cleaned half the windows, outside
(i) collected three of six dragon eggs, and contemplated names for the dragons (DragonFable, of course!)
(j) watched Supernatural, CSI: New York and CSI: Miami. Also, correctly identified that the Miami ep *had* to be the last of Season 2, because of the way it ended
(k) planted two lavenders
(l) read an entire Diana Wynne Jones - well, all right, it was a short one ...
(m) scrubbed one third of the patio. On my hands and knees. With a scrubbing brush. It really was the ONLY thing that worked ...!

It may be just as well I have the rest of the week off to recover!!

Current Location: Study
Current Music: Bird song

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If there was ironing, I'd be doing it.

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