Today I broke our food processor. It’s not a £400 disaster, massive mess-up, that would have been the case if we’d had one of those lovely Kenwood ones or something similar. It was a second-hand one from my parents and they’d had it for ages, and even then I’ve not […]
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I’m not in charge of the world. I think it would be terrifying if I were. Unlimited Viennese truffles for me would be first order but then the real stuff would kick in. I think any world-domination plan/chocolate procurement plan should carefully consider what the values are that underpin the […]
Bored of the election- I voted for the record- so I’m writing about something else! I get annoyed. SOOOOOOOOO annoyed when there are articles talking about supporting girls for this about having it all, women who want child care, girls who aren’t career driven, women who need this, and women […]
I am, at times, decidedly cynical about politicians and their edicts. I am essentially a left-winger but struggle to identify with Labour in its present guise. Generally I find myself grating against most things that come out of a large proportion of politicians’ mouths. However, I find myself agreeing with […]
Conference Season is upon us and I get to thinking about something I read in March 2012. I was travelling with my husband around South America. He’d just finished his PhD and I’d just finished an MA and it was a case of ‘then of never’. So, we got married […]
I read an article today where an Professor Barbara Oakley, an engineering professor, argues that research in education is not replicable and that much research in social science is at crisis point. The major cause of the crisis is that this research does not follow ‘the scientific method’. She describes […]