Anne Collis

‘They’ = the T-shirts. The notebooks are gorgeous. The inners are papermill made eco-papers. My favourite is ElliePoo (plant fibre inclusions washed from Sri Lankan elephant dung in high quality recycled off-white paper)

The spines of 16 narrow notebooks. They are hand sewn, each with a different rainbow colour of embroidery thread. The covers are dark and from hand-made papers.

These are More Than Notebooks, soon to be available from Wild Plant Paper (or via me).

The black cotton paper covers used to be a cotton T-shirt. A bit like me, they could have been discarded when no longer fit for purpose - but have been repurposed rather beautifully.

I start new meds for migraine tomorrow.

Only 15 months late…

I emailed neurology to ask how much longer I had to wait. Turns out they sent an e-letter to the GP 15 months ago with advice/no need for me to be seen in person.

GP hadn’t downloaded the letter. He did today.

Co = with, together, in partnership
Production = producing something

Shift context to any other form of production, eg film industry. I don’t think producer A would be impressed if they did all the work then producer B ran an eye over a finished film and was billed as a co-producer…

Really annoyed with Josh’s dissing of George, although I can understand why the love bird is stressy about another man being praised by Esmee #TheArchers

As one of the ‘everyone’ I experienced all the frustrations of @kolektiv.xyncro.com PLUS I had no idea what most of the course descriptions actually meant! And that was just when I was looking at beginners level.

I think I will just ask my fave AI (Claude) for a simple guide to mastering prompts.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I see Bruce Springsteen has released a new single youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

It won’t stop a bullet. But it may stop assumptions of non compliance when someone simply loses or does not have speech.

MnNEAT have created cards for everyday neurodivergent people like me who ever expected to need them.

DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’ Zeteo spoke with two doctors who worked with Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent invasion of Minnesota.

New: Alex Pretti, the man killed by the Trump-Vance mob of agents was an outdoorsmen, a mountain biker, an ICU nurse who "would go out of his way to help," say Veterans Affairs colleagues.

Cheerful. Funny. Gentle.

And still, per sources, Trump officials are urging staff to call him a "terrorist."

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PS, I facilitated the notebook workshop :-)

Side story:
There actually was one Barbie in the Barbie Movie who I surprised myself by identifying with.

I’ll let you guess which one that was. Clue: she didn’t behave or look like the others. And she lived on a hill.

Anyone who know me will I agree that I’m no Barbie. But I have no issues with Barbie being a very different woman to me.

I don’t routinely use AAC (alternative, augmented communication). But I have no issues with Autistic Barbie being autistic differently to me.

Well I wasn’t expecting that ending #TheArchers

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Two are recycled coffee cups, one is mixed bouquet, one is oak leaves and one is hay.

Can you guess which is which? (Paper by Wild Plant Paper wildplantpaper.etsy.com)

Three small cards, each with an acrylic brush pen design. The card is a flecked pink-ish beige.

Let’s talk single use coffee cups. They still exist and they still get discarded. So… why not collect them, process them and turn them into something useful? Check out wildplantpaper.etsy.com for workshops to learn the ‘how to’

Should have said, papers made by Wild Plant Paper not me! wildplantpaper.etsy.com

Is it a true #JunkJournal if you’ve made the paper for the book from waste pumpkins and land-fill-headed supermarket flowers? Or does it need to be waste / repurposed paper? These are a mix of handmade plant paper cover & repurposed old notebook.

Image of a person buried under a pile of marking, grant deadlines and meeting requests. Logos of University of Liverpool and Independent Social Research Foundation. Text reads: Creating more inclusive workplaces for academics with energy limiting conditions. Webinar and guidance for academics with ELC, line managers & HR professionals, EDI & union representatives, funders, publishers & conference organisers. Monday 24th November 2-3pm.

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Mini notebooks. The cover is paper made from pure marram grass. The inner is recycled old notebooks.
Perfect for writing messages or a short poem and gifting. Only £5. (Plus postage unless you live in Swansea area)

I’ve had a happy crafting evening. The pale paper is ElliePoo paper (yep, elephants provide the raw materials and the profits from that paper fund their sanctuary).
The dark paper is made by Wild Plant Paper using plants from the Afan Valley.

Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain in Richmond Burcu Yesilyurt says the fine is

I am confused. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If I can pour leftover coffee down the sink at home (not that there’s usually any left!), why can’t I pour it down a drain in public?

This is me.
Except I’m AuDHD and live in Wales, so I’ve had great therapy (OT and psychological) within the autism service AND I was blessed with an ADHD-aware therapist in the general mental health service.

But nothing beats the meds :-(

I’m privileged to be taking a fab set of free workshops for women about neurodivergent well-being.

I loved what someone just suggested about me - that maybe I don’t fit into other people’s standard rigid boxes, but rather I travel with my own transparent, shape-shifting bag.

Three black cows running down the station platform. The photo is taken by a passenger on the train at the platform.

In today’s news - cows on train line near Neath. The picture is of the cows being herded off the line, across the platform and out the front door.

Yes please!

Mind you, there’s a lot that could be done to improve the quality of teaching and careers advice in some universities so people can use what they learn for society’s benefit.

Learning about human interaction, society, culture, communication, artistic expression and media could be seen as dangerous if your agenda were to tell people what to think and feel.
But I would have said these courses are essentials for what I’d see as a healthy, strong society.

@lynnlaidlaw.bsky.social - any examples you could offer? Your knowledge of this is much broader and deeper than mine.

What makes a good self-advocacy project? The added value of co-production This article describes how two self-advocates worked with two academics and others to produce a toolkit to help self-advocacy groups run better projects. We begin by explaining why this research ne...

I was part of co-authoring with research colleagues with learning disabilities and co-authoring became a topic in the paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....