vivdunstan: Photo by me of St Andrews Cathedral (st andrews)
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: (oracle cards)
Preparation / Self-Interest / Memory.

Another three cards. Which in some ways connect with where I am now.

Autumn is my favourite time of year, and I’ve been getting things in place and making plans for the coming months. Especially the next month and a half, before my inevitable latest post Covid vaccine neurological flare. I’ve already been thinking an awful lot about this, but still need to sit down, with pen and paper, properly brainstorm, and make a list. I’m also planning very soon to blog about my plans on my academic musings blog.

Self-Interest is something I can focus on too much at times. But it’s also important, given how limited I am now, to focus on things that give me joy. Which ties in with the previous paragraph.

This year sees many big anniversaries in my life. Very big ones, like 30 years since both our graduation together and wedding. But also fandom ones, including the 40th anniversaries of Robin of Sherwood, The Box of Delights and even Murder She Wrote! I’d like to dedicate some time to looking back. Including remembering my undergraduate years. Before the end of 2024! So soon.

So more to ponder. But, yes, I need to formalise my musings re plans just that bit more. Writing a formal public blog on the subject should help encourage that.

vivdunstan: Photo from our wedding in Langholm (martin)
We've just discovered that there's a remastered 20-track rerelease of Runrig's "The Cutter and the Clan" album (1987). This was my first Runrig album, bought on cassette when I was still at school in Hawick. And we think it was maybe Martin's first Runrig album too, bought early on at university. So no surprise, that's what we're listening to now.

vivdunstan: Part of own photo taken in local university botanic gardens. Tree trunks rise atmospherically, throwing shadows from the sun on the ground. (Default)
Just stumbled across an article of memoirs about this, while browsing through the Edinburgh University Press journals archive. It’s free to read online.

“There may not be many people still living who had C.S. Lewis as their supervisor of research for a PhD. I am one of them, so it seems worth setting down what I remember of that experience, along with a few other recollections of Lewis.”

https://euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/ink.2022.0138?role=tab
vivdunstan: Part of own photo taken in local university botanic gardens. Tree trunks rise atmospherically, throwing shadows from the sun on the ground. (Default)
Wow the Open University is 50 years old today! I’ve just blogged about my experiences with it, studying 1998-2000, and how it gave me a second chance after I fell long-term seriously ill as a science PhD student at just 22. Posting here for a feel good story! The Open University is a much venerated UK university, that set out from the start to support part-time distance learning at home, giving people a chance who might otherwise be unable to study at university level.

https://vivsacademicblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/23/celebrating-50-years-of-the-open-university/

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