Ah yes, I did forget to mention that he is taking me out for a meal tomorrow night! Linda, your wedding is also a great opportunity to snaffle a few extra pressies out of hubby-to-be; mine bought me a massive bunch of roses (delivered to my house when I was getting ready in the morning), a thomas sabo bracelet with a wedding ring charm, and a handwritten letter (which I read and then had to re-do my makeup!)

Anyway, that's completely off topic. I've finally finished my work, woohoo! I'm now off to walk doggy, have a sleep and then get ready for tonight, exciting! Have a fantastic Easter weekend girlies, see you next week! 8-)

Ah, well, that's okay then! Enjoy the meal out, have a great birthday and weekend!

Ah have a great time Button, yes I think I will be insisting on some flowers in the next few days! Have a great birthday and Easter weekend! P.S. what lovely presents!

Hope you're having a good afternoon Batfink, I've managed to get through Goal 2 now as well so I'm just doing some admin stuff now. I'm struggling with some graphics at the moment, I'm not very creative y'see!

Thanks Lindalou. I've finished transcribing my second interview of the day and my brain is pretty tired now! Time for an evening watching rubbish TV. Murder She Wrote is just starting....

Morning,

That's pretty good going Batfink, if you keep going at that pace you'll have your interviews transcribed in no time at all!

My other half always finds it weird that I have a fairly "serious" job yet I watch rubbish TV programmes and read very light hearted literature in my spare time, I suppose I spend so much of my time thinking about serious issues the last thing I want to do at the end of the day is think any more! Hence watching/reading things that require very little brain power. It's my way of saying, here you are brain, turn off now!

Well I made some great progress yesterday so I've now only got section 3 to work on, to get it to a state where I can leave it over the Easter weekend then come back fresh next week to edit. hurray!

Oh and some good news on a non topic related item - the money has reappeared in my account now, phew! I'll just have to wait and see if the bank are going to charge me now! But thanks to Button's advice I have written proof that it's not my fault! (up)

Good stuff, Lindalou, hope you get the section done easily today!

I'm the same with needing to watch/read rubbish to switch my brain off. I do read and watch quality stuff too, but mid-week after a day of PhD all I want is nonsense! Luckily my other half also enjoys rubbish as well as quality so we usually work it out. :-)

Today, I'm pressing on with transcribing interviews. I definitely want to get two done today, but I'll see how far I get - it'd be good to have this out of the way as soon as I can.

Thanks Batfink, I now have a complete (but rough!) draft of my chapter, which considering how I was feeling earlier in the week is a major achievement, so hurray!

Hope your transcribing is going well so far, it is a bit of a laborious task but you'll get there! (up)

Oh dear, I made the mistake of getting going on corrections to another chapter which has already been reviewed, and I wish I'd started something less difficult now... Oh well!

Just remember how good the achievement felt earlier today! You're ahead of yourself really....

I'm half way through my second transcription of the day. My brain is melting. But it'll be good to blitz these and get them out of the way by early next week. Having said that, I am planning to head to the pub once this is finished today! It is a bank holiday weekend, after all!

Well done Batfink with your transcribing, you're motoring through! I persevered & got there in the end!

Have a great Easter, see you next week!

Morning all,

Back to the grindstone after a weekend off! This is going to be hard going this week as I know I have next week, and the week after, off for a certain event.... ;-)

But I do have plenty to be getting on with in the meantime!

Goal 1: Edit chapter
Goal 2: Check references in chapter

I don't think I'm going to get these both done today as I'm pretty sure once I start editing it'll take me all day if not roll on to tomorrow...!

Hope you had a good Easter, I did have some(!) chocolate in the end so I am on a strict diet this week!

Hello Lindalou, and I can certainly see why thoughts of the next couple of weeks would be a little distracting....!!

I had a good Easter break too and feel much better for it. But it also helps that this is another short week, I'm looking forward to the weekend already (and I don't even have anything in particular to look forward to!)

Today, I want to get my transcriptions finished - I only have two left to do (apart from two more interviews that I haven't done yet), and I'm half way through the first one already, so this should be very manageable. But I also need to go food shopping and do some sorting out in my flat (I have to get rid of loads of stuff before I move into MrBatfink's flat in three or four weeks) so I'll probably call it a day after the two transcriptions.

Morning both, glad you had a good Easter break! My break was good too, except I officially fell off the dieting wagon (down) also meeting a friend for tea tonight so I will get back on the diet tomorrow, I promise!

Eek Linda, I'm excited for you!

I only really have until 1pm to do work today, as I've got to get ready and then travel to meet my friend. I need to start editing my third of four findings chapters, but when I'm faced with a new task it takes me ages to get started. So my goal today is really just to do something on the third findings chapter, which I can then make progress with this week.

Goal 1- read findings chapter 3
Goal 2- start editing!

Hope today goes well for you both!

Well done you Batfink, you've done really well on transcribing, that's amazing speed! Also, I feel your pain Button! It took me ages to get into editing this chapter this morning but I've finally got going on it! And I am totally not doing very well at the dieting - I'm too scared to try my dress on before the day now! :$

Linda don't panic, you won't have the stress I had before my wedding; my dress needed to be made smaller (woohoo!) except the seamstress took it in TOO much so it didn't fit 4 days before the big day!

Anyway, I am completely procrastinating. I WILL read this chapter now!