A few pictures from my travels in March 2017 🙂 A beautiful spring morning on a walk in Cambridge visiting a friend. A moment that took my breath away and I tried to capture, but didn’t really succeed. Inspiring thoughts from the International Women’s Day Festival held in Derby in 2017. Amazing Lego exhibition at…
Current situation with mental health services
(Or just why I might discharge myself from everything in 2 weeks because the mental health system is traumatising me.) I’m currently supported by a complex team of multidisciplinary staff which include a Community Psychiatric Nurse in the Recovery Team, a specialist Social Worker in the Mental Health team, a Community Psychiatrist, a Talking Therapist…
April 2017 Lunar21: relieving the pressure, new thinking for the NHS
This evening I had the pleasure to attend the first Lunar21 of 2017 event at the Silk Mill Museum of Making in Derby. We had an excellent panel drawn from Derby and Nottingham’s diverse health and social care landscape, including the Chair of the Southern Derbyshire CCG, Dr Paul Wood and Professor of Mental Health…
Derby Museum Volunteering, October 2016
So October has been a pretty busy month. Mylo has started school and has settled into his first half term. It’s given me a chance to take stock and re-involve myself in a number of projects at Derby Museums and further afield as well as picking up Lunar21 once more. Firstly, I have been developing…
Tactile Tour Facilitation | Derby Museum and Art Gallery
This afternoon I had the pleasure of assisting with a session to learn more about the audience experience at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery for visitors who are partially sighted. Having very different sense perceptions myself, because of having Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) I am always curious about how others with different sense abilities…
Yorkshire Sculpture Park | Museum Visit
On a blazing hot Bank Holiday Monday this August, I took Mylo up to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park to explore with the friend who accompanied me the first time I went nearly 8 years ago. The weather was terrible then. I remember drinking tea huddled into each other coats in an effort to remain defrosted….
Week’s readings
Why we eat too much and how we can stop (RSA) The content strategy of the National Trust How the SFMoMA approach story telling across all media – lovely approach and philosophy Thoughts on ‘what’s on’ listings for museum and culture websites – by Chris Unitt Tate creates ‘Recognition’, using AI to match up current photojournalism…
This week’s readings
A look at YouTube Shakesperian vlogs, bringing the Bard to a new and younger audience. How technology has affected the views and working practice of younger artists ‘Display at your own risk’ explores issues of digital copyright of original works of art owned by institutions Mix the City from the British Council. Amazing multi-cultural sounds…
How do you?
How do you tell your child that you’re autistic? When do you tell him that the way your brain works, the way you feel and think and perceive is different to the way he thinks and feels and perceives? That he is like the 99% of other people on this planet who seem illogical and…
Strawberries – one of my favourite poems
I first came across this during my ‘A’ level English Literature, and I’ve adored it ever since… There were never strawberries like the ones we had that sultry afternoon sitting on the step of the open french window facing each other your knees held in mine the blue plates in our laps the strawberries glistening…