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Adventurous Nanny. Alexander Technique Teacher. Passionate Pianist and Artist.
Loves Bicycles, Beethoven and natural landscapes.

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Next to make a little "tile" for the house number.
#slovakianembroidery #hygge #housedesign #houseart #polishembroidery
Keeping busy.
Taking commissions.

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Quietening... It's just a thought
This is a link to a short video for those moments of overwhelm
More to come.
#wellbeing #embodied #vagusnerve #kinesthesia #alexandertechniqueformusicians #destress
https://youtu.be/CcRlZyO-ifk

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Feeling so grateful for being able to get out on my bike.
How long for? I don't know.
So "just for today" becomes my motto.
Thankful for the incredible nurses doctors pharmacists and all the unseen staff who are beyond full stretch treating those who are ill.
#dailybike #nhs #coronovirus2020 #devon #spring

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On reflection I don't think I want to convert scary things like lock down into something more user friendly.

Greta Thunberg has been talking about the house on fire and the urgency of it and how it's not normal to be unafraid.
Well I feel afraid and I don't think I want to escalate or diminish what I think is an entirely natural human response.

What really frightens me? *People who go round thinking it's not a big deal
*the horror for the nursing and medical staff * the thought of loved ones dying alone

Those are a few.
I'm one of the best people I know in a crisis.
I'm not losing sleep
I'm very well equipped with all sorts of centering methods
I'm robust and well
But this ?
This is different.
Usually in a crisis we can turn to each other... Which we are doing with the wonders of the Internet....
But I want a hug and physical contact and that's just the thing
I don't want oodles of sympathy I just want to say this and not worry what anybody thinks.
I just don't think it's going to be easy.

#coronovirus #wellbeing #mentalhealthawareness #family #socialresponsibility
Wishing us all courage and calm, love and Godspeed to a healthy world

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My grandson made this for me when he was 4
Ollie sending you love.
#granny #family #lovequotes #hygge

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Dedicating this to Charlotte Perry and Hannah Perry and your darling baby Frankie.

#pianolessons #teachers #pianopupils #improvisation #babies #lgbtqparents #lovewins

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I've just returned home from my "unskilled" 48 hour shift
I helped my charge up from a fall at 3.00 am. Held the sick bowl. Checked for palour and injury coherence signs of stroke ( assymetry/balance /weakness) monitored temperature and gave tepid flannel washes to wrists face and neck.assisted to the loo and back.
Liaised with family and care team.
Played Beethoven on the piano to keep things normal.
Did the washing etc etc.
So I get it. And that's why I'm posting in solidarity with all that unskill and dedication and for those who are doing way way more as unpaid family members who are on their knees with exhaustion.
Posted by one of the very wonderful home carers who looked after my mum so well for several years: Kayley Sowerby They are at the frontline in this anyway - Love and support to all the carers out there!
Mr Boris Johnson
I’m one of your so called UNSKILLED workers. I am a carer/support worker and I’m now in the frontline of corona virus. I’m looking after a vulnerable population, the same population that is high risk. To do MY unskilled job I have to have yearly training BY LAW, yes YOURS and your peers LEGISLATION, but IM UNSKILLED? I HAVE to know by law infection control BUT I’m UNSKILLED? I take care of people everyday, I check skin integrity but I’m UNSKILLED? Igive medication daily, many of those are CONTROLLED but, Im UNSKILLED I’m the one that’s there when no one else is. Would you like me to take care of one of your loved ones? I would because I CARE, as do my fellow carers and that MR Johnson is a SKILL that can’t be trained with a university degree, it a DEGREE in humanity, we are probably more SKIlLLED because we do at least 50 jobs in one day in a life of being a support worker
All carers I’m with you and thank you for what WE do everyday as unskilled workers xxxx
Could ALL of my friends who work in health and social care and have friends who work in care copy this, maybe we might be heard!!#carers #homecare #minimumwage #wellbeing

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I may be accused of being alarmist.
I am not alarmed because I feel a kind of "at peace" with no longer caring what people might think of me.
A bit like the depth of such a crisis that it becomes clear as to what is essential and what is of secondary importance.
So I'm doing what I believe I can in the interests of well being and care.
I'm staying home a lot more.
I love love love eating out.
I've got my fridge uncharacteristically well stocked.
I've postponed concerts.... Thinking of doing a little live Facebook version
Offering online Alexander work as an alternative to seeing clients.
Decided not to go to films concerts use public transport
Taking a face cloth around with me when I'm out to open doors etc
Trying not to touch my face.... Noticing how much I do.
Washing those hands and enjoying it. ( For once... I don't really like water)
Not visiting
Not eating my time being scared. I'm not.
If I become ill and even die I've had a wonderful wonderful life.
What else can I do?

Yeah. Let's see how it all goes and be as responsible as we believe possible.

#corona #healthylifestyle #wellbeing #socialresponsibility #community #alexandertechnique

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A tune for the moon and the trees and for all of us who love the land and our homecoming.
Dedicated to Jenny G
May your days be filled with music
As the light upon the water
As the breeze amongst the willow
Brings you softly home to earth
Now the moon is rising golden
Over trees its silvery beam
And the night is folding round you
As the melody of home

#nyckelharpa #musician #naturalworld #fullmoon🌕 #folkmusicians #singersongwriters #ktwhitehouse

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