So how far do I get into my first day of study leave before the first phonecall from work? 12.15pm.
A successful first day, although not quite as productive as hoped because I had to jar pickle and make bread rolls. It was also 9.05 before I sat down to Close Encounters of the Third Kind - I confess to using the faster function to fit it into the two hour slot, but I think I caught what I needed. After a coffee:
XLV: Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - which I won't bother writing up as it was a reread, and it is likely to be reread next March, so I'll return to it.
The afternoon started with watching The Clangers series one, part so which must have been 1969. I need to track down reliable broadcast dates. (It looks like "Visiting Friends" was the first to be shown in 1970.) I also need to work out whether "Vote for Froglet" exists or not. I think fragments, but I've seen mixed reports (one rveiew says it's on the series 2 DVD, but part of the boxset of series one and two? I've found a clip.) And whether the other two Clangers get named. (Arg... Clangers fanfic beckons...)
I read some of Radio Free Albemuth, but that and King Kong are tomorrow's job.
I need to go into town tomorrow afternoon, so it's a half day, but I'm hoping I can get Lathe of Heaven and maybe something else read in a coffee bar. Wednesday is London - see what I can read on the train.
Oh, and I realised my wordcount is 120,000, not 100,000, but I appear to have planned 16 6,500 word chapters so that is not panics stations - and there's bibliographies and introductions and epilogues to fit in.
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