Morning all.

Photograph by Bruce Davidson.
Ebbw Vale, Wales (Girl in red sweater), 1965.

Umoja, Kenya, a women-only village, created for females to escape male/patriarchal violence was photographed by Georgina Goodwin #WomensArt

“…you've adopted an arms length relationship…you have allowed a once great institution to be asset-stripped by little more than thugs in suits.

And you've enabled them to carry on with impunity, regardless of the human misery and suffering they've caused.”

#PostOfficeScandal

Chippy tea?

Mrs Clayton and Mrs Collins, Leeds, Summer 1974.
Photographer Peter Mitchell.

“I'm unsure which pain is worse;

the shock of what happened

or the ache for what never will.”

~ Unknown

#grief

When working away means you come home again to #Wales

#Grateful to be based in the beautiful county of Caerfyrddin for the next ten days

Miriam Margolyes:

“What Israel is doing is wrong. It is wicked…

Voice your disgust and detestation of the Israeli actions.

Please, you are then doing the right thing and behaving in accordance with Jewish tradition.”

Returning to supervision after a break allows me to see with fresh eyes just how tired frontline practitioners are

Fighting systems that tell them they’re too loud, too difficult and care too much when speaking out

Instead I suggest they are “hopeful disruptors” ~ Dr Karen Treisman, MBE, Clinical Psychologist

‘To be alive at all is to have scars.’ -

John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent, 1961.
#ThursdayThoughts

Aren’t we complex creatures

To move from laughing at how “little Aled Jones” shared the same hairstyle as Princess Diana and Anne Diamond, to quietly sobbing as the grown up Aled Jones sang ‘How Great Thou Art’ to a hushed auditorium

And I don’t even believe in god

#OneVoice

Most definitely

#EveryLittleHelps

Little Green Space 🐝

“Evening falls in the arms of day

And does the same each night

The darkest pain fades away

At the gentle touch of light”

~ lemn sissay OBE FRSL

#Grief

Amazing to feel connected to #nature and Professor Benjamin Zephaniah through planting a pear tree in the new Benjamin Zephaniah wood, #Spalding

I chose pear because these trees used to grow in my grandparents’ garden in South #Wales

Delighted to learn pear was Benjamin’s favourite

#RoleModels

Good morning , your beautiful #FoxOfTheDay from @roeselienraimond on Instagram - just brilliant !

“I get my strength from knowledge.

Knowledge is power, they say.

But knowledge of self is even more powerful.

Because if you don't know yourself,

Nobody else really can

And nobody else really will.”

~ Benjamin Zephaniah

#SelfCareSunday

The greatest gift of Easter is #hope

Although I’m definitely not complaining about my present of hot cross buns from Welch Bakes bakery, #StNeots

#EasterSunday

#Grateful

#ShopLocal

“Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do,

I’m half crazy all for the love of you…”

#Spring on #StNeots common

#Grateful

UK Artist Prudence Staite created a playable chocolate record which worked just like a vinyl record, and played 'You Sexy Thing' by the band Hot Chocolate #WomensArt

'It isn't Jesus, it's just a fella”

No better film classic on this rainy #GoodFriday afternoon than ‘Whistle Down the Wind’

You have permission to rest

You are not responsible for fixing everything that is broken

For now, take time for you

It's time to replenish

#SelfCare