We are happy to announce the first CAMPS lab of the new year:
Millie Randall @millie-ran.bsky.social
@stemma.bsky.social
Flirting and Predicting the Future in Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies
Friday 31 January
12 noon
THB G010
SO HAPPY to hear from you. I may have teared up a little? I hope you're thriving. Please stay in touch!
My favourite dinosaur is Triceratops. But according to Dinosaur Club, most of my colleagues answered "Brontosaurus." The Brontësaurus pun possibilities make up for the mild disappointment...
Academic who adores teaching. Old and Middle English, Finnegans Wake, literary emotions and senses, neurodivergent representation. Winner of 6 teaching awards. Accidental Founding Member of First Year Poetry's Dinosaur Club...yeah, I don't know how that happened either...
Make a lot of spreadsheets, just because. Have always loved lists and sorting info. But need to learn more spreadsheet skills. 2025 goals.
Family friendgave me the single, but mum bought me Too-Rye-Ay to avert frequent calls to "turn it over." Remember being wheeled home in my buggy centre with my prize in my hands, showing it to everyone, pointing out the man on the cover who I thought was named Dexy. Got to see them finally last year
A little red-haired child (me) in brown velour dungarees dances with a woman in a white dress (mum) in a ballroom.
Music lover. First and enduring love: Dexys and Dexys Midnight Runners. Heard them for the first time in Skegness when I was wee, and since then "Come on Eileen" has been known as "Frances' song." Took up the violin because of Helen O'Hara (I'm still rubbish)...continued...
My favourite dinosaur is Triceratops. But according to Dinosaur Club, most of my colleagues answered "Brontosaurus." The Brontësaurus pun possibilities make up for the mild disappointment...
Academic who adores teaching. Old and Middle English, Finnegans Wake, literary emotions and senses, neurodivergent representation. Winner of 6 teaching awards. Accidental Founding Member of First Year Poetry's Dinosaur Club...yeah, I don't know how that happened either...
Make a lot of spreadsheets, just because. Have always loved lists and sorting info. But need to learn more spreadsheet skills. 2025 goals.
A family friend gave me the single, but mum bought me Too-Rye-Ay to avert the frequent calls to "turn it over." Remember being wheeled home in my buggy centre with my prize in my hands, showing it to everyone who passed, pointing out the man on the cover who I thought was named Dexy.
A little red-haired child (me) in brown velour dungarees dances with a woman in a white dress (mum) in a ballroom.
Music lover. First and enduring love: Dexys and Dexys Midnight Runners. Heard them for the first time in Skegness when I was wee, and since then "Come on Eileen" has been known as "Frances' song." Took up the violin because of Helen O'Hara (I'm still rubbish)...continued...
A very heavily annotated copy of Finnegans Wake. The writing is in different coloured pens in the margins, between the lines, in every blank space.
Waited 8 years, as I felt 16 was probably old enough. Asked for my first copy for my 16th birthday, and spent years annotating it. Now, article accepted by James Joyce Quarterly and several others on the go.
Finnegans Wake fan since before I read it. Sister took me out to the shed when I was 8 to see the copy that Dad kept there (hidden from the nuns and priests who frequently visited). Was entranced by the book that began and ended in the middle of the same sentence, but sis said I was too young ...
Two of said three cats. A calico on the left and a ginger on the right. The ginger cat is trying to nuzzle the calico whose ears are back. She looks like she might throw a slap at any minute... (she didn't; it was all resolved amicably)
A ginger cat sitting on a windowsill, doing a fairly decent impersonation of a loaf of bread (three of her four paws tucked under her)
Personal assistant to three cats. One has congenital hypothyroidism, which is rare in cats, but thanks to a great vet team he's thriving.
A circular crocheted blanket in circles of greens and oranges. It has some stitches that sit on top of the circles in diamond shapes.
LOVE crochet; I don't think there's an evening I'm without it. Prefer blankets to jumpers because I don't like making sleeves. This is a gift for a colleague who is expecting a baby. Pattern not mine; available here: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
A tricolour sheepdog shown from the shoulders up. He has one ear up and one ear floppy. His brown eyes are very bright and sparkly, and his face is relaxed and "smiling" with his tongue slightly protruding.
A black and white collie shown from the shoulders up. Her ears are set to the side and her lower jaw is protruding like she has seen something she really wants.
Trouble-maker-in-chief to two Collies. Love sheepdogs impossibly much; despite growing up afraid of dogs, it was a Border Collie who convinced me otherwise. Said I'd never live w one, but apparently s/o had sneaked some collie into my Golden Retriever puppy and she convinced me how wrong I'd been...
I'm like that person who goes to a party and stands in the corner watching everyone else have fun...No, wait, I am that person. No, wait, I don't go to parties...
I'm supposed to do an introduction, right? Okay, but there will be photos. Not of me, because you've prob. not had enough coffee
"Glavitas" was such a missed opportunity...
My face when I join Bluesky hoping it's as good as they say ...and then realising it might just be...