Jill Turner

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Vic Park Christmas Art and Craft Market.
#1. #blueskyart #craft #humanism

"What makes mankind unique is not our ability to reason, but our use of symbols."

Yup. I wish I had that self believe! Ha ha!!

Well done you!. It really matters. I first experienced this as a six year old in a school playground in Manchester. My friend Raman
Mundair had migrated from the Punjab. Older boys started taunting her-derogatory,mean names. I was so upset I ran home. My mum took me back to see the Head teacher.

Surprise birthday tiramasu

Back yard party snap

Surprise birthday tiramasu at a backyard Christmas house party in West Australia. Wonderful to meet extended family and boarding post grad science students from Iran, Africa, Indonesia and Mauritius. We had an a proper impromptu sing and dance in the kitchen!

#christmas #diversity #celebrate

The role of the environment in the developing brain and neuroplasticity in adults.

Self help for #adhd
#neurodiversity through understanding how brains develop and work.
#harvardcentreonthedevelopingchild #reviewpaper #science #theroleofplay

Why are diagnoses of ADHD soaring? There are no easy answers – but empathy is the place to start | Gabor Maté Some say it’s overdiagnosis, others say it’s greater recognition. But it’s clear we must think about how our society is impacting human development, says author and retired physician Gabor Maté

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For further information I recommend reading the review document at Harvard Centre on the Developing Child.
Short videos on the core concepts underpinning child development and free resources also available on the HCDC website.

#ADHD #neuridiversity
#plasticity

Film archives give glimpse into sun-drenched image of Perth in the '60s Our deep dives into WA's various archives and historical hidey-holes is, as we've said before, one of our favourite pastimes. We recently found ourselves

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Perth in the 1960's. Rigid social roles, white Australia policy and indiginous Australians absent from view.

#Film #Australia #diversity

Book cover.

Poem

Poem

Analysis.

Consuming and consumed by poetry.

#poetry

"I have suffered with those that I saw suffer" - Miranda - The Tempest. Goodnight.

Munchkin Deluxe Card Game What makes this edition "deluxe"? It's got a big gameboard to keep your cards in place, and six colored pawns that you move on the gameboard as you level up! Plus a card to go with each pawn, to make ...

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Now. The curveball Mr Rabsinthe- I fully accept every person's right to freely be Who they Wish to be. Whether male, female, intersex, non -binary [or non-toxic male as my musician son describes it]. We play the game Munchkin - so can be Elf or Ork with the Big Boots of Power. Then revert back.

That wasn't on my mind. Ha ha! I haven't put the decorations on the tree yet! It would be tricky as I'm in Australia. Why are you so cross?
Did no one read you a bedtime story?

What leads you to conclude that. From your own knowledge of her?

There was one young guy called David. I couldn't work out why he was so aggressive to me. I had two young kiddos to look after in the day and tried really hard to make a great program of activities for the evening. Then I heard some bloke in a car s sreaming and abusing him...

Well. Once you have managed secondary school youth service provision, established a not for profit, worked in the NHS, done a Masters degree and worked with young folk with complex needs as an occupational therapist. Whilst raising two boys etc - you gain a certain perspective and humour!

So what was your favourite book? Ten or was it eleven?
This is the tricky thing with having worked with young people for thirty years...

But an Interesting Comment. However my mother is 77 and very much alive.
That may give you a clue as to who isn't...
Still- that doesnt let you off the hook. What was your favourite book at 10?
I am genuinely interested ( and now half way through putting up the Christmas tree...)

Ha ha! Bless your cotton socks!

The Beano Annual 2006.

Oh go on!

Beano ... or
Factual?
100 cool magic tricks?
Guiness book of World Records?

My youngest is an Accountant
He was big on Warrior Cats at 10 then onto Horowitz and Pullman through to Adams.

A book opened with the title page just visible on the right and an engraving of John Locke after a portrait by Kneller on the left, labeled “engraved by Henry Cook”. #Locke #17thc #EarlyModern

“Though it be certain, That neither Sin, nor a Rectangular Triangle, to which Nature is attributed in these Propositions, are either of them Subtances.”

An 18th century engraving of John Locke inserted into my 1697 copy of one of Locke’s replies to the Bishop of Worcester. Quote from the book.
📚💙

Oooh. This is a wonderful old book. The Geometry of Transgression...
Nice

Oh hello again lovely! How are things over there?
Well - not as upset as I was to hear Edith Blyton was a bit of a tricky one! But I still do still love the Saucepan man and the Magic Faraway Tree! And Claudine at St Clare's (i went to boarding school). What did you read when you were ten?

Folks going 'Interscholastic' courtesy of that daft Tim Minchin. With the Presbyterian Ladies College, boys Scotch College and Christ Church Grammar fees exceeding $30, 000 pa.
We Always invite choirs to Perform at Fairbridge Festival of World & Folk Music.

#folkmusic #christmas

In real life salad and cake making

Oh SORRY! I have to get the salad and cake ready for the Mautitian in-laws Party tommorow. Apologies! - about 40 coming and it is the first party in 10 years! I did read these books aloud as bedtime stories. Starting with first one.
Improbable anyone getting hidden under the stairs eh?

Wonderful folk album - two of my very favourite creatives

#bandcampfriday

#Folkmusic #poetry

It's 28 degrees and we're singing along to 'I'm dreamimg of a White Christmas in Coles! Just bought the salad stuff for tomorrow's party with Mauritian in laws and 3 zucchini for $3! So we will be having vegie version of Aunty Leah's Best Zucchini Slice. And the cherry's have arrived ...

Impossible translations: why we struggle to translate words when we don’t experience the concept If Danish speakers experience hygge, then they should have a word to talk about it; if English speakers don’t, then we won’t.

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Hygge?

#art

Low tech kitchen craft

Wrapping Festive Season presents for relatives in England, China and Mauritius.

Western Australian - rock, paper, scissors and Elmer's Extra Strong Glue! 💝

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