Simple living in the country - back to basics

Mrs_Money_Penny

That’s a long day for you. Hope your well on your way home by now. Had to Google British library reading rooms never heard of them. You will sleep well tonight. Boo to having to wait around. So annoying xx

Cheery_Daff

Thans Mrs Money Penny 😊 

I'd only ever been in the British Library cafe, so I didn't really get what was what either. They do have membership that you can pay for - not sure what that allowes you to do, presumably take books out. But you can also join for free as a reader, which means you get to go in the 'reading rooms' which are fantastic - I LOVE libraries, and the room I was in had big desks for working on, like I remember from university (but with plugs 😂). I didn't even look at any books, I was just looking for a quiet space to work while waiting for the train. The rest of the library was busy, but there was loads of space in the reading room - definitely something I'll do again with spare time in London.

Working at home today, and not got going yet. Putting off doing the final touches on the funding bid - no good reason why 🙄 I think I keep hoping it will go away on its own, but of course it won't go away until I've done it - a mantra I repeated over and over in my PhD days! 🙄😂

Nothing for it but to switch the laptop on and stop hiding. It could be done before the end of today if I put my mind to it.

Baileys_Babe

Come on @Cheery_Daff prioritize the funding bid for today and clear it from your to do list.

Think about what needs to be done to the bid and then break it down into one of your famous lists.

beckstar1975

Just delurking to say my work all week has been updating JeS with the PhD submission data (or lack of) for our PhD students so your post is so pertinent to me today. Just get it done, it will never be as big a thing to do as the idea of it is!

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WelshmansDaughter

Going to the National Library reading rooms is such a treat. It's like traveling back in time. I've joined the one in Edinburgh and sat in there with a requested book. 

EssexHebridean

The British Library Reading Room sounds amazing - definitely need to investigate that at some stage. Mind you I need to make it inside the Wellcome Foundation still, too! 

Get the funding bid sorted!  

Karmacat

When I lived in London, I was a member for a few years - that's so long ago, it was the circular area in the courtyard of the British Museum, arranged like the spokes of a wheel.  Marx wrote Das Kapital there 😮

Much better cafe in the new place  

beanielou

Hope you can get the funding bid finished today. 

Elisheba

I'm smiling at your procrastination @Cheery_Daff - it's exactly the same as I do.  Hope you have everything wound up now.
I don't think I've been to the British Library Reading Rooms - I went to a map exhibition there once, but not the Reading Rooms - I'll have to put it on my list .  For work its normally the Bodleian in Oxford or The National Archives at Kew if I do need something, and these days it tends to be cheaper to order copies than visit yourself.  The National Archives are very space age and modern and free to join and visit if anyone is interested.  I think with the Bodleian you might have to pay ... can't remember.  You can definitely pay to do tours of the Bod - absolutely fabulous looking around it!

Karmacat

Ooh, yes, I've done genealogical research at the Kew National Archives, amazing place.  Also has a good cafe 😀