2025-01-05

vivdunstan: Photo by me of St Andrews Cathedral (st andrews)
2025-01-05 01:12 pm

1990 Bursary

Checking new content on the British Newspaper Archive. As well as adding the St Andrews Citizen in 1991 they've added the Southern Reporter for 1990-1992. And crikey, here's me in the latter, for that bursary I won at St Andrews University. From the Southern Reporter newspaper, 22 November 1990. I also have much clearer photos from the reception at the principal's house.

vivdunstan: Part of own photo taken in local university botanic gardens. Tree trunks rise atmospherically, throwing shadows from the sun on the ground. (Default)
2025-01-05 09:07 pm

Not Now

Been pondering adding a "Now" page to my personal website, to note my main focuses in a given period. Here's a link to the website describing the concept. But having thought more I'm thinking I won't. As a female I often have disturbing interactions with folk (usually male!) online, and I'm wary of how much info I put out there. I could easily do to trim it back. But adding a "Now" page feels like a step too far. Had fun browsing the sample "Now" pages linked from the site though, looking at those of Scottish folk. Who are almost entirely male ...