Dissertation

There are some traits that I wish I could avoid passing onto my children but it seems that Charlie fully inherited my irritating procrastination and reliance on deadlines to encourage activity. Three years ago, when she wrote her dissertation, she completed it - start to finish - in a few days.

Izzy, thankfully, takes a far more structured and less stressful approach to her academic deliverables. The downside of this is that her dissertation has consumed her life for the last few weeks, with early starts and long days in the library, punctuated only by trips to the gym. 

Tomorrow 'the diss' needs to be handed in and I promised her that I would read it, today, so after I dropped Dan and Abi back at their mum's I headed straight back home and settled down to take a look. It was a long, good and interesting read, with just enough little tweaks required for me to feel that I was adding a little value and for her to be confident that I'd read the whole thing.

I took this shot just after I'd finished reading it. I'm not sure why I was looking so grumpy: maybe because I hadn't used the camera on the iPad before and I was concentrating on taking the photo more than the picture itself. But, in fact, I was very happy and after that, I went for a swim, recorded the radio show (part 1 and part 2), and then went down for a lovely evening in the Minx's yarden.