Citizen's Advice Bureau can help with tenant's rights and also with credit ratings.

I think the fact that it has gone on for so long doesn't help.  Do you have any written records (copies of letters sent to / from the agency)?

You cannot sleep on the floor. Can you tell them that you will buy a bed and withhold that amount it cost you from the next months rent?

A lot depends on what your subject is - if you are in science (or some social science like Psychology) then you will need to be in the university in labs and things but in other subejcts you can do a lot of it at home. I work full time as a lecturer (with a two and a half hour round trip commute by car) and am doing my PhD (geography) part-time; my children are a bit older (11 & 9) but in some ways are more demanding now (school hours are less conducive to working paretns than nurseries or nannies). I tend to focus on PhD outside term time and holidays get planned around my fieldwork research.

Can I volunteer myself to be a research subject? I will gladly sit in a room with an open bottle of wine and see what happens!;-)

You can always take your clothes in a wheely bag and change in the loo at the university and then leave your bag with the reception desk / secretary / pa/ whoever.

I didn't know that bravissimo sold shirts for curvey girls - def need to get some of those as I can't get shirts that fit across my amble cleavage.

I have always been amazed (comeing from a corporate background) at what academics deem suitable attire for things like interviews - they are far more relaxed.

I think what you are think of looks great - not sure that a jacket would go well over the jumper & fake blouse (am sure they have a proper name but don't know what it is) ensemble. A Jacket over a shirt woudl be fine.

Make sure you have a nice bag with you and also (and this is my dad's tip for when i was first looking for jobs 22 years ago) you have polished your shoes!

Stressing over the clothes is more productive and less stressful than over the actual interview content.

Good Luck!

I've bought the little sprays with special cloths in pound shops in the past. I usually just breathe on mine and clean with my t-shirt.

suggest you change the title to this post to better reflect the content - most of the postings on teh forum are for help and so you will get more reposnses if you give more of a clue.

I have completed the online survey

Most careers services will help you for at least a year after graduating and if you are moving back to a different town you can go and ask the careers service at a local uni for help.

I don't know which country you a rein but if you are in the UK the university careers service can help - they can arrange for apptitude tests to see what occupations might suit you. They can also advise on cv, interview techniques etc.

Haven't heard about silver eating gold but I know that if you have rings in gold on the same finger they need to be the same carrat as one will rub the other away (so I got an 18ct gold wedding ring to macth my engagement ring whereas my husband got a (cheaper) 9ct one)

No, as far as I know sterling silver is an alloy of nearly all silver with a bit of something else (I think it is copper) to make it hard enough to be useable; it is too soft otherwise.

Silver plate is something else.

Not sure about how to look after it but someone gave me some antique sterling silver teaspoons as a wedding present and they were wrapped in dark blus tissue paper which i was advvised to keep them in.

Maybe a sciency person can be more helpful (or look in one of those "How to clean everything" books in the library

The postman delivered some books (including the one on writing a lit review)
I did some reading
My son left his junior school

For some bits it's almost impossible not to "plagiarise" someone - how many ways can you say "participants were recruited by..." "a random sampling strategy was used" "a semi-structured interview approach" and so on.  I wouldn't worry too much (but referencing yourself is apparently a good thing to do so if you can do - also although paper 1 might not be published by the time you submit paper 2 it might have been accepted and therefore be in press by the time you have finished doing revisions to paper2 - if that makes sense)

http://www.afht.org/copyright-policy/

This was the journal I was thinking of - I assume other journals have similar policies so I don't think you have to paraphrase everything (but supervisors are probably best peopel to check with).

Is this for the thesis becuase if so I thought that you were allowed to recycle your own material for theses (and similalry to recycle your thesis into papers). I read something about copyright on a publishers website and there was a reference to previously published work in the form of thesis vs papers. Will try to dig it out.

If it is a rework of a published conference paper into a proper paper I put something along the lines of "substantial parts of this paper were previously published as..." at the end.