Our wonderful regular writer @laurarichmond.bsky.social has written the most incredible memoir of mental health & motherhood. It comes out this week and we will be hyping it up all week & forever! We’re not good at subtle, so to be autistic about it: BUY IT - wiltonsquarebooks.com/products/all...

Swampy. Great.

6yo spent half an hour sitting next to the piano with a piece of manuscript paper and wrote her first composition (she wrote one partly with her Daddy before but this was entirely by herself). She chose the time signature and the bars all add up correctly!

Ooh it's Dad!!

There's still time to register for next Thursday's FREE online event: Autism and maternity: information for parents and supporters (6-7.30pm UK time). I'll be joined by 3 brilliant Autistic midwives: Karen Henry, Rebecca Warboys & Diane Fox. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/autism-and...

Wonderful to see this. More research on perinatal autism is so desperately needed and must be led by lived experiences.

lnkd.in/e8829jUK Super delighted to have published the second paper from my PhD - the first ever study looking at the experiences of community perinatal mental health team staff working with autistic people.

Super excited to get this, just out by the amazing @draimeegrant.bsky.social am sure I'll be recommending it in lots of training I give

So delighted about this after Laura was a victim of the Unbound awfulness. Do buy it if you can!

Having listened to choral evensong on the way home, the 6yo is now only communicating in plainsong...

We made exceptionally enormous Fat Rascals. Didn't know before today that you arrange the cherries and almonds to make a face so 6yo had great fun doing that in a variety of expressions.

We listen to and sing along with a version of Amazing Grace on the way home Grace "of course, I know it's really about God's Grace but it's also about me, because I'm amazing"

So excited to read this especially the postpartum section

Thanks to Amy for sharing her experience of PND and the lifesaving inpatient care she received at an MBU. With family ties to Northern Ireland, Amy reflected on how different her story might have been if that was where she was living at the time: www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/norther...

6yo sang for the first time at Holy Communion this morning with the choristers. It wasn't a child friendly service and she did SO well that she entirely earned the second biscuit that she sneaked. Asked what she thought of the sermon "I wasn't really listening". Better answer than "boring" I think.

Can anyone recommend an emergency alarm system thing for an elderly relative who is worried about calling for help if they have a stroke/fall please?

@homahen.bsky.social ooh you are here!

🔔 The @jameslindalliance.bsky.social survey closes at the end of the week. We're asking people with lived experience and professionals who work with families to help shape the top research priorities in #PerinatalMentalHealth. It should only take 10mins but you can save & return: lnkd.in/em5-sZ5b

It was still there so I had to get a selfie!

Rather delighted to see this this morning

40+ appreciation pic. Repost with pic if you're on the right side of 40. 41 here

We now have a full set of Rainbows interest badges. Sewing onto a sleeve is not fun 🫠

Analysis from #RCPsych found 2/3 of Integrated Care Boards in England planned real terms funding cuts totalling £3.6 million to perinatal mental health services in 2024-2025, despite demand being as high as ever. #maternalMHmatters www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-fea...

Well hello!

Beautiful!

Oh reviewer 2. You were very positive but have given me 26 different things to fix.

He is risen!

Loving my specialty daffs

A warm welcome from Shirley Hughes & Friends!

These cruel benefit cuts will rob security from so many – but Labour will lose something crucial too | Frances Ryan

Anyone want to review our rapid systematic review of research on PAs and AAs in UK from a PATIENT perspective? Has to happen this weekend. TY

The family have gone to the in-laws. PhD time for me!

Painful on the hands and toes but we were appreciating how much lighter it is at 7.30, even on a grey day.

We have an announcement. It's the 1st February and WE HAVE SNOWDROPS! ❤️

Exceptionally brisk on riverside but glad I made it in as a lot of rain forecast over the next week which will likely put it off limits.

Putting Christmas away and looking forward to my first supermarket daffs flowering!

The camera makes it look lighter than it was over an hour before sunrise... I propped my phone torch up so I could see where to get out. River finally back to swimmable, hurrah!

May the joy of the angels, the eagerness of the shepherds, the perseverance of the wise men, the obedience of Joseph and Mary and the peace of the Christ-child be ours this Christmas; and the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, be among us and remain with us always

Almighty God, as we prepare with joy to celebrate the gift of the Christ-child, embrace the earth with your glory and be for us a living hope in Jesus Christ our Lord

It's my dad!

It's all about the light at the edges of the day isn't it? Before and after 6 minutes in Hinksey lake.

Advent Day 9. Got to pickup early so listening to this arrangement of the Calypso carol in the car. One of my favourite carols that we don't seem to get to sing very often.

Second Sunday of Advent Almighty God, purify our hearts and minds, that when your Son Jesus Christ comes again as judge and saviour we may be ready to receive him, who is our Lord and our God

Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and to put on the armour of light! Happy Advent!

he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and the dead

Very well deserved

111 option 2 would like your feedback... www.engage.england.nhs.uk/survey/1d60f...

FINALLY! I have achieved my Remarkable2 tablet which DSA promised me back in June. Anyone got any tips for using them? I've downloaded and logged into the desktop and mobile apps, I've uploaded a lot of papers...

Oh my!