thanks dunni, that's useful I will check and see what binders in london do the glue binding.

Just wondering what the general practice is for binding examination copies of the Phd dissertation. I am registered at a North American university and have to submit 6 copies for examination/viva. Thesis is about 430 sheets so too large for spiral binding. What have other people done?

Hi - i know how you feel as mine is about 2 1/2 but hopefully i will submit in the next few weeks. I found it incredibly hard and gradually moved from two 1/2 days at nursery to three full days which i find is the minimum amount of time that allowed me to be productive - if not i was spending all my time getting back to where i left it off. I used nap time for busy work like checking citations and downloads and tried to reserve nursery time for writing but i have never managed to work evenings and very rarely at weekends as I'm too exhausted. have you tried the student parents forum on mumsnet there are some phd students on there and you can get some good advice and support. Push on it will be worth it! At one point the main motivation for me to continue was so that my liitle one would know that i didnt give up!