Florence- don't be alarmed, I only needed a few notes out of each article I was reading!

Didn't manage to do another five articles before other half got home last night, so my aim is to read and get notes out of another five today.

Wooooo got the notes from six journal articles I needed. It's not much but it's something! Might try and do another five before other half gets home.

How is everyone else doing?

Yay I like this thread. My aim is to skim read and get the notes out of 6 journal articles.

Good luck everyone!

Wow thanks so much everyone! I think it's looking very likely that we'll get married next year in my first year of PhD. I just think that it's best time to do it and definitely want to be a Mrs button before I graduate!

I will definitely get family and friends to help with e.g invitations/flowers etc, they're into that kind of thing. And it won't be the most spectacular wedding you've ever seen, but it will be perfect for us.

The only thing I'm worrying about though is how much time it will take up, I am a worrier and can imagine worrying about both my PhD and the wedding. But I guess I'll just have to make sure that I get a healthy balance of both. I hear so often of PhDs taking over peoples lives and although I'm 100% committed to it, I don't want it to be the be all and end all of my life. Is that bad?

Thanks Sneaks, I'm already addicted to youandyourwedding.co.uk, so much so that I've had to ask my boyfriend to put a block on it and password protect it, so I can actually do my work today! Did you have a big wedding? How did you manage organising your wedding whilst doing your PhD? Sorry about all the questions!

Thanks everyone, I think it's like that we will get married next year, during the 1st year of my PhD. I think the sooner the better would be best for us, I don't want to be planning a wedding for years and years!

I am worried that I will get a bit addicted to planning a wedding though, like Sneaks said, but I just don't want to wait another three years! I am 100% committed to my studies, I always have been, but just this once I don't want work to take over my life- I want to get married and I don't want the fact that I'm doing a PhD to stop that happening!

I'd like to get married perhaps around March next year, so still early into the PhD. What do you actually do in your first year of PhD anyway? Am I on the right lines thinking that it's lots of reading and finalising research questions?

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I can't say I've ever actually tried houmous sneaks!

Thanks for the ideas guys, I might try something with pitta bread. I don't really like pot noodles, I've begun to realise that I'm REALLY fussy!

Surprisingly I don't get indigestion from eating frozen peas! I also LOVE eating Emmental cheese, I could honestly eat a whole block of it everyday but I really don't think that's good for you!

Apologies for another food thread, can you tell I'm hungry?!

I was just wondering, as you do, are there any foods that you really love and wouldn't like to live without, however unconventional they are?

I was pondering this thought whilst sitting eating my bowl of frozen peas whilst my tea is cooking. I adore frozen peas, they are absolutely heaven with a bit of salt!

I also love cold, cooked, roast potatoes, they're gorgeous.

Aside from the obvious e.g chocolate, do you have any odd food cravings?!

Hi guys,

Okay so I know we have had lots of threads about quick meals about what to eat etc, but here's my dilemma.

I work from home most days- breakfast is fine, tea is fine, but lunch is a problem. What can I eat?

I'm a major hater of bread and wraps therefore sandwiches are not an option (unless they're Gregg's sandwiches which are uber yummy but uber expensive), and things like jacket potatoes take too long to make because I always forget to put them in the oven a while before I want to eat it, and they taste funny in the microwave. I tried soup for a while but I'm really not a fan, even the chunky soup isn't too fab.

I've recently been resorting to crumpets with butter, or crackers and cheese, which aren't exactly filling.

Any ideas? I like the look of pitta bread in Asda but I would have no idea what to put on it, or how to make it filling. What do you have for your lunches? Preferably something that doesn't take too long to make, and doesn't involve too many ingredients!

This may seem like a ridiculous thread, however I've asked my other half, my mum, even the lady in Asda, with no success!

Thanks everyone!

Thanks for your help, I'm glad that you both think it's ordinal as that was my original thought, but because the stats wouldn't work I started questioning myself! Anyway, I'm still stuck on it, and I've decided I need to use Spearman's rho, but it doesn't give me the correlation coefficient because N=0, when it should be lots of participants...any ideas anyone?

Please excuse how utterly thick I am, but I have a hate-hate relationship with SPSS and really don't understand it all.

Okay, so I've got to combine several variables into a new variable. I've done that bit somehow, but now I've got to see whether the new variable (a scale variable) is related to social class.

What is bugging me is that I can't work out whether the social class variable is nominal or ordinal :$ there are five responses it can be, ranging from middle to working to poor. Any ideas?

Based on this, I have tried to do both a box plot (if it were nominal) as well as Spearman's rho/Pearson's/Kendall (if it is ordinal).

But firstly, when I try to do a box plot no results come up, like nothing appears on the graph, there are no box plots.

And when I do any of Spearmans/Pearson/Kendall either nothing comes up for the correlation coefficients or it says "cannot be computed because at least one of the variables are computed". Eh?

Any ideas are very much appreciated, I'm having an absolute nightmare!

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Thanks KB, I have the "oh my god, did I really just say that" feeling rather a lot while I'm transcribing!

But I guess at least I'm noticing this now, and I think when I do interviews again I'm going to be a lot more conscious of what the participant is actually saying, rather than worrying about the questions I want to ask!

Thanks again!