tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post909729160595643823..comments2024-03-24T02:21:53.258-07:00Comments on william morris unbound: Suggestion for the Morris SocietiesTony Pinkneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-19706809615599283982018-04-25T23:43:02.973-07:002018-04-25T23:43:02.973-07:00Yes, I read about the picketing. Thinking about it...Yes, I read about the picketing. Thinking about it, I have more friends who have left academia due to frustration or burn out than any other profession - even more than law, and I will never know how people work those hours. I'm probably best off out of it... I'm still drifting around on the fringes of reality, in Barcelona for three months doing some advising at a school here (yes, I am apparently in a position to give advice these days - terrifying notion for all concerned). Last year I bought a cottage in Brittany and am hankering to get back there: it may be France, but I'm determined to create the ultimate English Country Garden in my small patch. Best of luck with the protests, I'll keep checking in here to see developments. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-80742980212179193312018-04-23T03:29:25.502-07:002018-04-23T03:29:25.502-07:00Hi Jane, Just back from my travels down south (UK ...Hi Jane, Just back from my travels down south (UK that is, not Europe). Thanks for this message, and it's good to hear from you. Barcelona is such a fine place that any pretext will do to get me out there, but this exhibition looks very impressive in its own right too. So I shall endeavour to parachute down for it at some point. Hope you're enjoying your time in that wonderful city (what are you up to, exactly?), and that you have good plans for the next few years. As you'll have gathered from my pensions strike posts, academic life is a stressed and grim thing in the neo-liberal university, so maybe not doing that PhD on Van der Post was the right decision after all. Best wishes for all your future endeavours! Tony Pinkneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-30447603213590645332018-04-19T05:04:58.005-07:002018-04-19T05:04:58.005-07:00This has remarkably little to do with the post but...This has remarkably little to do with the post but everything to do with Morris... You may remember me from years back - Jane Thomas, I had a notion at one point of embarking on a PhD related to Van der Post. (I never did; perhaps I should have done.) Anyway, I'm in Barcelona for a few months and just discovered this is here - <br />http://www.museunacional.cat/en/william-morris-and-arts-crafts-great-britain<br />and wondered if it was in any way related to you, or if you would be visiting it. So I googled, and was more than moderately delighted to realise you still run this blog - which I will now settle down to peruse far more thoroughly. I hope the sun has found Lancaster so you can picket and bask simultaneously: I'm sure there's more grit behind a wintertime picket, but there's nothing that isn't improved with a fair dose of sunshine. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com