I don’t even know how I did it really. I think I approached doing a PhD a bit like how I approached working and doing my undergraduate degree with children, which was just – it’s a job, just treat it like a job. Get up in the morning, what are the bits of preparation that you need to do, in some ways it was quite difficult emotionally, I think working and having children is always difficult. I think if you’re a single parent it’s even harder and it felt sometimes like a bit of an indulgence but at other times it was really practical. SO I didn’t have anything better to be doing with my evenings than to be working, actually coming and doing my postgraduate studies particularly my MA really gave me  a kind of interesting, supporting, community, family of choice that I might not had access to if I was only hanging out with small kids. So in terms of social life it was actually really great, in terms of finances the two things worked together for me to my advantage. So I had access to benefits as a single parent that I wouldn’t have had as a postgraduate student, all of that stuff is now gone, however. So there were points that it worked really well together I think but at the cost of any sleep, or any social life.