Suman Fernando RIP a giant figure in terms of psychiatry, anti racism and equality and gentle and kind with it. he will be greatly missed we are much in his debt www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Ever since I learned wood anemones spread just 6 feet in 100 years, I’ve been more impressed by the starry carpet in my local woods. It’s low impact, but long lasting 🤔

☺️ I’m looking forward to this great opportunity to talk with Emma about my book. I wrote Rest-Do days about living with fatigue and how to get things done. Hope you can listen in at around 6pm.

A group of women in Lancashire are joining in a nationwide hunger strike for the weekend to protest food poverty #foodpoverty #childpoverty #hungerstrike #PrestonMarket northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/hu... #JosephRowntreeFoundation #Mothersmanifesto

Last Friday I finished reading Property @rowanmoore.bsky.social It has changed how I think about my home, houses around me, village church, local shop, struggles of my family & so many others, and how I read the news. Possession, when compared with property, informs alienation & belonging.

Had wonderful stroll with friend today, discussing seasonal nature of resting & doing. Some days it’s impossible to resist overdoing it, important when it’s in a lovely place like a wood in spring.

I’ve never seen it put so succinctly before! Even as a disabled person myself, I struggle a lot with internalized ableism. These 12 all two common narratives about disability can be difficult to unlearn, but that work is important. (Created by Jamie Shields, founder of Disabled By Society.)

Who is this man? And why did my dad make this portrait? Who do we choose to pay attention to? Every time I come here I unfollow some more people, slowly I’ll get space to find posts that add something to my day.

Back at the hospital this week. X-ray dept had a makeover, felt hallucinogenic, too distracting to rest. Fortunately not there long.

Rest-do days never stop 😁 I’m recording an interview about my book today. Looking forward to talking with Maria McCann for WLR FM radio. It’s always interesting to answer questions about rest-do days.

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Today is a hospital day for me. I wonder how long I’d survive without the NHS. No private provider will touch me even for the most minor procedure because I’m too risky. US style anything sounds scary. Surely Reform must be losing its appeal? eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/rad...

Hannah Page, a baker from the US makes art with bread #WomensArt #Sunday 🧡

Hoping to get back to doing interviews about my book next week after a few weeks’ absence. I enjoyed answering questions & having missing the opportunity. Feel free to post yours here, to help me warm up😁🤔

Read the whole thread. Most of my research would be airbrushed out of all funding and publication in USA right now. NB good luck doing epidemiology research without the word 'bias'. #academicsky #episky

I can breathe quite well now after chest infection but am in that state of fatigue where it’s very difficult to initiate anything. Another rest-do day tomorrow, following my habits to save energy.

Slowly shifting from sick days back to rest-do days. I helped a lovely friend to change my bedsheets yesterday. Novels are my best escape from miseries of being acutely unwell.

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Saw my GP & spoke with my respiratory consultant. It’s so helpful to hear how they understand why I can’t breathe v well. Both offered feasible suggestions & reassurance. Feeling like I’ve turned a corner towards better times today.

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Been a tough wheezy snotty bloodstreaked week so I assume my vasculitis is flaring alongside respiratory infection. It’s been good to receive lovely photos from friends, among many other gestures of support.

If governments and organisations attended to indoor air quality, we’d be less reliant on masks to prevent transmission of respiratory infections.

Hello! So sick of the guy(s) behind the other big socials, I'm here to try this out. Here's an owl drawing to kick things off.

Will today be a rest-do or sick day? For me a rest-do is guided by my intentions, a sick day by my immediate needs. Still v unwell so probably a sick day. restdodays.blog/2024/11/06/f...

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In my rest-do days book, I suggest that sick days are when I potter about, doing essentials like going to toilet, taking meds & eating/drinking. Today is a sick day as the same cold that my 84 yr old mum shook off in 5 days is getting the better of me. www.book2look.com/book/49aOEkI...

Had a rest from reading demanding books to lose myself in Kensuke’s Kingdom, warm & moving. Rest-do days take many forms www.michaelmorpurgo.com/products/ken...

Cartoon from 2004, done mostly to give the office thesaurus an airing. Hearing later that he'd had a rough time, I was slightly worried that accusing him of owning a cattery which was merely a hollow facade might have been a bit unkind, but it turned out that he liked it, so I sent him the artwork.

Don’t miss the deadline for this conference 👇🏻👇🏻

Have really enjoyed listening to BBC Radio 3 InTune this week with @saramohrpietsch.bsky.social @bbcradio3.bsky.social

No, SARS-CoV-2 isn’t a little bit airborne. It’s not “situationally” airborne. It’s an AIRBORNE VIRUS, spreads via the air. I’m granting an amnesty on people who said (5y ago) that it wasn’t. I won’t say I told you so if you finally acknowledge the evidence. Let’s just get this right and move on.

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Off to get a drive thru blood test (yes I do stick my arm out of the window). It means waiting a while in the car, so I’m packing some things to do: crochet, current novel, hot drink. Rest-do days often mean planning ahead so I’ve got something to do that’s restful.

I knitted a coat for my grandog Apparently he was more impressed than he looks.

And today we also had the sad task of updating the number of covid dead in the UK. ❤️

'How's that on a scale of medieval misogyny?' Ian Hislop tells Andrew Marr that Elon Musk is 'riddled with contradictions'.

Thank you Captain Vimes!

How is it possible to visit an exhibition & not crash with fatigue afterwards? Travel with good friend, rest & eat then don’t look at every painting. Come home after that. Rest-do days can happen anywhere 😁👍

My approach to storing hearing aid batteries changed because of one of David Lodge’s novels - v funny & much loved www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A new commission on social care, but not reporting till 2028 then check this out FREE The Future of Social Care From Problem to Rights-Based Sustainable Solution www.elgaronline.com/monobook-oa/...

In these strange days between Christmas and New Year, how are you resting? restdodays.blog/2024/12/28/r...

Called in to the local brewery to pick up refreshment for the family. We will pause & remember Dad, who loved his beer before Alzheimer’s took too much away. What is such a pause a rest from? What will we be resting?

PIP review time. Difference with prof registration audits: relentless focus on every detail of the miseries of chronic illhealth, v short deadline, assembling multiple paper copies of supporting docs & nagging concerns about outcome. Merry Christmas.

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Finding it difficult to rest while out at the moment: too many people around. I’m fed up with eating daft food at stupid times. Have to remind myself this is a brief seasonal aberration.

I’m looking forward to being followed here by people I might have actually met at one time or another in real life. Or is that not the point? 🤔

Yesterday’s Christmas impulse buy, for my brother