Driving rain here so I'm induling in memories of yesterday's distractingly beautiful bike ride rather than setting out on today's

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Would you rather travel to the future or to the past?

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Making hay whilst the sun shines...

(Loving my riding: surgery will halt play soon so this day of fun riding with friends felt like the best possible use of my time right now)

Did you get outside this weekend?

Energy accounting worksheet - help kids work out their boosters and drainers so they can try to keep them in balance

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My most precious hours in the day - whilst everyone else is sleeping - have traditionally been spent working

Inspired by a coaching session with Meic Griffiths FCCT I've reclaimed part of that time just for ME (and my bike)

It's quite the life upgrade

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First visit back at the climbing wall today. Turns out the right hand/arm is definitey NOT up for climbing

So I had a go one-handed. Obviously 🤣

This was pretty humbling, but trying to see the fun side

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New publication highlighting the role of camouflaging in predicting eating disorder symptoms in Autistic adults by Siofra Bradley Dr Karri Gillespie-Smith Lili Clark liliclark.bsky.social Pooky Knightsmith and others! 👇journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

BACK IN THE AIR!

I couldn't be happier.... making hay whilst the sun shines as my elbow is still very dogy and likely to need an op on the ulna nerve in a few weeks, but right now, I'm free to PLAY as long as I can manage a wee bit of pain and lack of function (little things)