Likes old engineering with soul; biker, VW bay window co-owner; love music I can get lost in - live and loud :-) and all round very quiet person
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If you are at secondary school, or know someone who is, encourage your teacher to sign you up to this talk with @heritage_crafts Co-Chair @jayblades_, organised by us and @speakrs4schools, and hosted at @HollingworthAc, on 14 July. Teachers sign up at forms.office.com/pages/respo….
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As an autistic person, I may cry and my voice might shake when I ask why something is happening. That does not mean I am ‘unstable’ or ‘toxic’ It means that I am genuinely confused. Honestly and genuinely confused. I am not playing games. I am not manipulating a situation.
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Apart from the hay fever, the constant sweat, the sunburn, the lack of sleep, the wasps, the bug bites, the baking hot car, the 3am sunrise, the non-stop disco from next door’s garden, the yellow lawn, the heat rash, the absence of air con and the complete lack of energy… I’m actually a big fan of Summer.
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A sad tale of endangered crafts, most of which have survived many centuries but still have a key place in today's digital & virtual world to say nothing of being at the heart of sustainability. Congrats @heritagecrafts for keeping the conversations live and current @jayblades_
It's been two years of waiting and six months of intensive research led by Endangered Crafts Manager Mary Lewis and funded by @ThePilgrimTrust, but the 2023 edition of the Red List of Endangered Crafts is out! heritagecrafts.org.uk/redlis… @jayblades_ @RoyalMintUK #craftsredlist2023
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Looking forward to our fieldwork season 10-29 July at Warham Camp #LaterPrehistoricNorfolk. Working with wonderful colleagues @RestoTrust @CambridgeUnit @NNArchaeolSoc @HolkhamEstate
#Archaeology #Wellbeing #CultureTherapy
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Are you #ActuallyAutistic and feel tired often, even when you haven't done anything "tiring"? You're not alone. It IS exhausting just being autistic in a neurotypical world. You're not broken. Help spread this message and reach those who think they're alone and reply below!
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A few ways Autists and ADHD’ers may express romantic and platonic love 🖤
ALT A pale pink visual slide with a list of autistic and ADHD love languages, in black, each with a corresponding black illustration. The love languages mentioned are: gifting you things you like, sharing their interests with you, researching things you like, helping you with things, parallel play and body doubling, asking you questions, spending time with you, infodumping and deep pressure hugs.
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Them: Why were you fine before your autism diagnosis, but you're suddenly struggling now.
Me: I wasn't fine. Like at all. I was struggling. A lot. More than I even realized. But now, I understand my struggles a whole lot more and I'm not trying to hide them anymore.
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That they lack empathy. The opposite - too much empathy, seeing multiple viewpoints at once, automatically standing in everyone's shoes. It is perceived as lack empathy by NTs because the autistic person doesn't take THEIR side, rather no sides, waiting for wisdom, if it comes.
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Rush Matters in Bedfordshire is looking for 2 apprentices to join its dedicated team. The company, led by Felicity Irons BEM, harvests English bulrush to make rush floor matting and other items. facebook.com/story.php?story…
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Gypsy, Roma, Traveller, Showman and Boater Crafts Makers are invited to participate in a community-led survey to help add our crafts to the new list being created by @heritage_crafts
For more info click here: bit.ly/CraftMakersSurvey
Survey Link: bit.ly/grtcraft
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“Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune, the cost of which should be shared by the community.”
- Nye Bevan
Please RT if you believe the NHS is worth fighting for 💙
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Rishi Sunak’s maths idea is 100% dead cat. Still, I loved maths and did it to A level. But why compulsory maths to 18 rather than compulsory art or music?
Close 800+ libraries, slash arts funding by a third in a decade, then ask us all to become data-miners? I know where I stand
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It can be a challenge pinning down the precise route rural postmen walked. Each had a route information card (see pic of Shap #Cumbria route) naming every farm and house but few of these survive. I'd love to hear from any local history archives that have their local route cards.
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24th Window. Christmas Eve. Everyone was asleep, apart from Old Fox, who'd stayed up to greet the Old Gentleman of the North & the Newcomer. Together, they stood for a little while in that ancient cottage, drinking hot possets & eating sugar plums, a blessed meeting without time.
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In response to freezing temperatures, inflation and strikes the media and government have jointly launched
The Great Gas-Lighting Campaign 2022.
It won’t heat your homes, but make you angry enough to thaw a tinsy bit
#BBCBreakfast
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The Old Gentleman of the North had been making lists since Midsummer. Lists of the lonely, of the poor, of those without family, without friends, without hope, and whilst he couldn't change very much, he would do what he could, when the snows came & the stars were as cold as ice.
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Advent Sunday & Old Fox had taken a tangled wreath of holly & laurel leaves to the Sheep Church, a Chapel of Ease up on the Downs, a lonely, wild place close to the sea. He lit the first candle & the light was golden in the shadows. For hope, he told the ghosts there, for hope.
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Overwhelm. It's hard to convey the feeling as your brain starts shutting down, replacing coherent thought with 'GET AWAY, ESCAPE, MAKE IT STOP!' at a visceral level. Whatever is going on is exceeding my brain's ability to process and it will crash.
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