About six months ago, I hit a PhD roadblock. I should have been embarking on what I hoped would be my sixth… Read more Roadblock

October. That’s the last time I posted anything about the PhD. It’s also the last time I can remember being… Read more Work in Progress

Quite a few weeks have passed since my last post, and you might be thinking I’ve been either a) too… Read more State of Love and Trust

Just when you think the hard part is over, an even more difficult task appears.  I know, I was warned,… Read more Trouble

After a few weeks off, from blogging as well as studying, my supervisors recently suggested that my literature review is… Read more Sweet like chocolate

From the slightly red glow emanating from my face and limbs, a lack of literature review progress over the past… Read more It ain’t over ’til it’s over

When you are lucky enough to have six weeks off work to enjoy the summer, you have to make the… Read more Ain’t no sunshine

I think it’s about a month since my last post – reflective of the amount of work I’ve done on… Read more Human

Conference season is well and truly upon us, and this week marks the second and third outings for my poster… Read more The fear

A few years ago, like many other people who bought property during the last property boom, my husband and I… Read more This ole house

When I started this blog, I thought it was obvious how ‘phdonderer’ should be pronounced. I was proven wrong on… Read more Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

If the PhD is teaching me anything, it’s teaching me just how important the little things are.  Little things like… Read more All the small things