Phew!  After three days of angst and frsutration the university have sorted the necessary for my electronic submission of my thesis and extended the deadline for the hardcopies by two weeks.

It felt SO good to hit the send button and get the thing winging its way south.

An odd week for Gatherers - there are two of us (me in my forties, the other in her very, very late twenties; both technically 'mature') making final post grad submissions this week.  Hopefully our stress levels will be lower once it's done.

Now, just the small matter of finding a thesis binder in Glasgow that can meet the requirements of Manchester University 'soft' binding (i.e. hard binding with a soft cover!).  It is possible the one close to where our church once planted can do this (haven't checked yet) but the one nearest the Gathering Place can't even though it's website said it could...!  Hey nonny noony.

(Of course the nice bit of irony is that the essay that appeared in print this week is one chapter of my thesis, so it was published before it was (finally) submitted!)