Good luck for the presentation! I started a log on Monday where I'm writing every little thing I manage to achieve each day to try to help that sense of achievement - so easy to overlook what you've managed to do, but little by little we'll get there!

Oh that does sound wonderful! I'm now very hungry for pasta

Crucial question - what pasta did you make, and how was it?

I’m hoping this blog goes some way towards rectifying that. Sometimes it’s just as fun to hear about where research goes wrong, as where it goes right.

It’s also the story of something I don’t think gets talked about much in academia. It’s about the excitement of making an historical discovery, and the crush when you realise you’re entirely wrong. Sometimes research goes like that, but I think we tend to only advertise our wins.

Would love to get a list of people's websites (suspect there will be more since I last asked) - so feel free to reply here with yours, and hopefully it will help everyone discover new academics!

You’re so right! I struggle because I always feel like I’ve not done enough, so can’t quite “justify” taking a break.

But rest is so important to allow you to actually be productive when working that’s it’s a crucial part of the process. I’m just rubbish at it. 🤦🏻‍♀️

It doesn't help with feeling tired, but in an attempt to try and feel a bit less 'I've done nothing, I'm so behind' I wrote a 'wrapped' type post looking back over my first year helped a little though I'm still largely panicked...

www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/the-sta...

Does everyone feel like that? Is everyone else exhausted? Or are people good at taking time off??

Oh I can imagine that being a very relaxing listen

I've also started a page that will list out the various books or products I might mention...there's currently only two things on there, but might be helpful at some point? 📚✒️ #PhD

www.lucy-brewer.com/books-and-go...

We’ve got this. Second half - go again! 💪🏼

That’s a tough ask because they typically need a period of cold. Kind of depends where you are but you could try looking at the Wambugu Apple, which was developed in Kenya.