Emma D

It’s a very apt description!

Thread. It is a great honour to announce the shortlist for the 2025 #Curae prize for unpaid carers

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Mistletoe. Sam Garvan
Diagnosis. Elizabeth Loudon
Sinkhole. Charlotte Ansell
I Love Him (like salt and water). Emma Wilson
The Shop at the End of a Wave. Ia Kozoboli.
thecuraeprize.uk

“But talking about my daughter feels like the most important thing I can do. She mattered because she was here and she was exceptional.”

What a beautiful and heartbreaking and important piece of writing this is.

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

This is so beautifully written and so completely true and I agree wholeheartedly with all of it 🫶🏼

🧵 I want to tell you why I think this is one of the most important prizes running and I’m sorry that the book press and mainstream publishing hasn’t dived on it with bells on and support …

Yes! For me, at least, making publishing the goal changes the purpose - I rarely get to do things just because I want to, and this offers a way to practice and learn without the focus being on ‘the outcome’. Also, doesn’t rule out publishing for anyone who then wants to explore it later.

LOVE the sound of this!

"This book is both heartrending and gorgeous. It crosses the line many times but, ultimately, it’s about love. He teaches us humanity."
Miriam Margolyes

Published June 5th, available for preorder now.

I hope you find something (love a dawn chorus but pain free (ish) sleep is preferable)

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Strongly resonates with me. I finished my MSc in 2021 and any writing I have done since has been work related - even when unpaid, I somehow legitimise this whereas I struggle to do so with personal writing.

Brilliant, thanks. I will experiment!

Ooh, do you use cashews? I’m off to gather some of our stuff today and I usually use pine nuts but would be very interested to know what cashews do!

Amy in a love heart frame. Amy is smiling and has auburn hair and bright eyes

On SNJ Today: Our post today remembers “fierce, funny and fabulous” Amy Reyes, the daughter of our columnist, @catrionamoore.bsky.social & @edreyesjourno.bsky.social whose funeral was today. You can donate to Amy’s hospice #DemelzaCharity at the link in the post.
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It’s a very easy to use and well composed template. Collective action is all we have right now folks 💜

9 small freezer bags with pieces of damp folded kitchen towel wrapped around chilli seeds, all labelled in marker pen according to the seeds are sitting on a kitchen worktop. Each one is a different variety - there is a bag each of Centi, Aji, Pink Tiger, Orange Habanero, Habareaper, Kashmiri, Curry, Jamaican Yellow and Tequila (a sweet pepper).

Chilli germinating season is upon us 🌶️ 😁

Every journo who bangs on about the ease of falsely obtaining PIP: go on then.

I was invited to contribute to an academic text 5 yrs ago, so I said my piece in a publication that I thought was high quality and written for a professional readership (in hopes of going beyond the echo chamber). And I kind of retired after that. 20+ years of no change is evidence enough.

Genuinely think no caregiver at the start of their ‘journey’ wants to believe it can be as awful as more experienced caregivers tell them. I think professionals (including thinkers in that) have a variety of different reasons for what they choose to get on board with.

Also, you’re bloody great and definitely no horrible things to highlight 🙈

Sadly, I’m even more cynical (if that’s possible). I tend not to comment on any Education related topic because I don’t see there’s much point, but I think your comment could too easily be overlooked when, in fact, it exemplifies the whole miserable state of things.

The most horrible thing about that Jarlath, is that it’s not remotely surprising.

Makes me think of Damian Milton’s excellent work on ‘what exactly are interventions intervening with’?
Infuriating that we are still saying the same things over a decade on.

Gloriously Ordinary Sundays - 2nd March 2025 — Gloriously Ordinary Lives In preparation for our campaign this week, ‘I Open My Own Front Door, Do You?’ I asked friends, colleagues, and family to share what ‘front door’ as a concept means to them. The majority of this blo...

In preparation for ‘I Open My Own Front Door, Do You?’ launched today, I asked people to share what ‘front door’ means to them. The blog is about what people told me - beautiful, heartfelt, thoughtful quotes.

www.gloriouslyordinarylives.co.uk/gloriously-o...

@learningdiseng.bsky.social

On the left of the image is a normal X chromosome the extremities of which are smooth. To the right is a Fragile X chromosome showing the fragile sites on the bottom two branches of the X. They are constricted and look as if someone has tied a tight rubber band around them.

For #RareDiseaseDay, here's a series of posts I wrote a while ago about how #FragileX Syndrome affects our family.

#FragileX is a chromosomal abnormality & is the most common form of inherited learning disability. It's called Fragile X as the end of the chromosome looks like it's about to drop off.

Mother had carer’s allowance stopped while with disabled daughter in hospital Rachel Adam-Smith says stopping benefits when loved ones are in hospital fails to recognise carers’ ongoing role

Such cruelty at the hands of the system #carers www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

As well as showing deep systemic failures, this piece is so devastating and terrifying to me as the parent and full time carer for an adult child with epilepsy.
The sheer lack of understanding outside of specialist services is truly unacceptable.
What a heartbreaking and needless loss of life.

Why is it important that #Curae exists?

I have many pieces of @beckyrwhin.bsky.social beautiful artwork and would encourage everyone to take a look through her back catalogue as she captures the essence of things in a remarkable way.