Successes today: Found the nail clippers, M’s tablets, the dog’s treats and food bin bags (M’s packing notwithstanding) Plumbed in the Washing Machine Took rubbish to the tip Emptied the car Replaced M’s Jaffa cakes which I snaffled yesterday Put the shower curtain up Unpacked various kitchen bits

- Chaos, Couture, and Cosmically Important Cab Rides - Motown Dreams, Dublin Reality - The Outback Wasn’t Ready for This Much Fabulous - Fixing the Orphanage, Ruining Everything Else - Bureaucracy, Backstabbing, and Bad Decisions

Tomorrow is moving day, although I don’t expect to get to bed early so it is likely to be today by then iykwim 📦📦📦

Get to know your mutuals! 10 things I like (no particular order) 1. Most of the music 2.The sea 3. Dogs 4. Cats 5. Naps 6. Stationary 7. Blue Skies 8. Cruise control 9. Peonies 10. Chocolate Angel Delight

Interested in the value of #design abduction in exploring #complexproblems, especially when operating in the realm of the #unknown, #unknowable or unimaginable? Revisit this great 2022 i2Insights contribution by Mariana Zafeirakopoulos at i2insights.org/2022/11/01/a...

Gang?

Today has mostly been packing, negotiating with removal people and cooking garlic & mozzarella gnocchi for my parents who fancied it but now realise it is not for them.

I got my mum to knit me one of these for the office phone in 2012 #aheadOfTheCurve

Long shot, but does anyone know anyone in Leeds/ W. Yorks more generally who could fix an old hifi amp for me? DMs open....

My life rn 👵🏻👨🏻‍🦳📦

Join us 24th Nov 2-3pm for a webinar on creating inclusive workplaces for academics with Energy Limiting Conditions. Register: AcademicsWithELC.eventbrite.co.uk For academics with ELC, line managers, HR, funders, publishers, union & EDI reps & conference organisers @isrfoundation.bsky.social

Please add tracks to my packing playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/04A...

We are moving on Saturday next week, We have used Zen Internet for the last two years and have been happy with it. I want better uload. Choice - unknown provider for less money for the first 12 months or Zen for £42 per month 18 month contract.

The ADHD Taskforce report is finally out. We called what it needed to contain a month ago: national standards, fair shared care, real ownership. First look: some movement, still too many gaps. Reports don’t fix systems. Continuity does. Read the report here www.england.nhs.uk/publication/...

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?

Any DfE people able to help me find my old school. I have called the Ormiston Park Academy and they say they do not hold any records. "In 1976 the Aveley School, located in Love Lane, relocated to the former Aveley Technical site.[2] By 2004 it was called the Aveley Secondary School[4] 1/2

Art and design weirdos: have you come across a really good book covering graphic musical scores, or similar? Can't quite find much, i'm imagining a big old tome running from Kandinsky to Eno and beyond

I’m on the lookout for a new contract (preferably inside). I’ve got over a decade of experience working in the public sector, mostly in agile delivery management. Two weeks notice. Not got DMs here but Signal is zuz.1337, or LinkedIn is good. Thx :)

“Alpha is all about velocity of learning, not velocity of delivery, and the sooner you can get to insights, the better” 🤩

When we launched A Community Guide to a Happy Neurodivergent Christmas for FREE last year, 1000s signed up to get a copy. Social media reach is now so suppressed, it's proving really hard to reach people. Enter your email at jadefarrington.substack.com and you'll receive the 2nd edition on Nov 6!

30 minutes left of my 56th year

Seasonal reminder, Pumpkins make Hedgehogs sick, so don't leave any out where they can reach them.

We’ve published our WIP vision board. It maps how we turn our vision into services that help people now by putting users, needs, and strategy onto a single page. View it here: www.canva.com/design/DAG2g... Does it resonate? Share your feedback here or on [email protected]

Moving house,T-18 days, looking for motivation Couple unpacking moving boxes by David Pereiras from Noun Project (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) In January I wrote a post about moving with ADHD. We were expecting it to happen in February. Well that didn't happen and here we are again, due to move in three…

Reminder for ever £1 we spend on SEND we get a return of 380000k across a lifetime. Ignore or defund it , the needs doesn't go away, we just pay it elsewhere. #SEND sonnetimpact.co.uk/reports/the-...

NICE says ADHD meds must be started by a “specialist” but doesn’t define who that is. The result? Inconsistent practice, bottlenecks, and patients waiting months while systems debate semantics. 📅 Part of ADHD Awareness Month. Day 21 of 31

#AI use for mental health counselling seems to have that political sense of wellness that’s there’s a single line that people just need to cross to be able to work (and that work is the definition of good health)

So much gov work involves transforming paper-based processes like this. It didn't need cutting-edge tech – the most impactful part was good form design, challenging assumptions about how information is captured and used, and then how the team understood and designed for situational access needs

A clear path for content careers. The new Content Design Academy helps you move from doing the work to leading it – with practical, live courses designed by practitioners. Take a look at the pathway: buff.ly/oOMztSs #ContentDesign #UXWriting #GenAI #Training

I enjoyed watching the other shoppers in Morrisons spotting this today also the couple who decided to have a stand off with it. They lost interest before Rovr did. www.tennantco.com/en_gb/1/mach...

I could not deal with Morrisons moving the fruit juice this morning! Yours is more difficult to deal with 🫂

Picked Mum & Dad up from the hospital this morning. Lots of lovely staff giving hugs and telling Dad that he has to come back on Christmas Day without the walker 🩷

Shouldn't that be "Andrew to give up Royal Titles"?

LinkedIn crosspost, but GovCamp is breaking out of London and coming to Birmingham in January, and we need sponsorship more than ever to make it happen www.linkedin.com/posts/imhuyo...

No visit today, instead preparing bungalow, emptying car of wheelchairs to make room for frame and shopping (just Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Asda and Lidl) to top up all of the things which have gone out of date in the last month #carerLife

ADHD meds are treated like opioids. 28-day expiry. No repeats. No emergency refills. Rules meant to prevent misuse often do the opposite: stable patients fall off medication, relapse, and end up back in crisis care. 📅 Part of ADHD Awareness Month. Day 16 of 31

UKGovCamp 2026 ( #ukgc26 ) will be in #Birmingham on Saturday 17 January 2026. We need a venue: 1️⃣ for 250 people, 2️⃣ 8 breakout rooms, 3️⃣ wheelchair accessible. @imhuyorks.bsky.social is leading the search. Please share and reply with ideas 🙂

I have done 840 miles since Mum went into hospital. Two more days will take me to 912

Mum & Dad have a release date, Friday 🎉

Clinicians with ADHD understand the system from both sides: patient and practitioner. But they’re almost never included in service design or contract discussions. Their insight could make services fairer, safer, and more user-centred. 📅 Part of ADHD Awareness Month. Day 14 of 31

Posting me from a different era

UKGovCamp Birmingham: Join Us! UKGovCamp is happening on 17 Jan 2026. If you work in gov and haven’t attended, now’s the time! Leaders in policy, operations, and diversity, please share with your teams, connect with colleagues, and help spread the word! Contact us to get involved.

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand. Beetroot 😖 Children of the corn 🌽 Any of the ‘old men singing about young girls becoming women’ genre e.g. Girl You’ll Be a Woman Soon

“So many interactions seem to take no account of the anxiety that they might induce.” With both parents in hospital at the moment- THIS

ADHD waiting lists are often just spreadsheets. Literally. No severity rating. No link between Trusts. No shared database. A 21st century health system run on 1990s admin tools. Patients wait years while the data stays a mess. 📅 Part of ADHD Awareness Month. Day 9 of 31