I haven't moved away from the computer much this week which has paid dividends in that I have pretty much completed the next tranche of work required for my next supervisory meeting next week. But I have to say, it's been a bit like pulling teeth, or giving birth to a mountain....Stuff that's been floating around my head for the past couple of years, vague, puffy half-thoughts have been plucked out of the ether and given verbal form and I now have my 'scope of thesis down' on paper (or on the computer, at least). This has generated some useful study questions that will help delineate forthcoming chapters. When I first considered doctoral work I was a bit sniffy about study questions, considering them a hobble to creativity, but having realised that I could go off tangentially forever, I am quite pleased to have some cogent guidelines for thought.