My reflections…
1. Talk of new buildings opened, children finding their voice & identity, singing Scottish folk songs with my oldest!
2. …all had this little flower in their descriptions!
3. I love seeing things blossom!
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My reflections…
1. I’ve been ‘smoke-testing’ apparently this week!
2. Is a new thing for me…can we see health data from ‘your bubble’ securely flow to ‘my bubble’?
3. I’m here for this kind of smokin’!
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My reflections…
1. I’m trying to collect patient feedback in clinic for my appraisal!
2. I keep forgetting to ask…or the signal for the QR code doesn’t work!
3. …I’m always happy for this type of 1 star!
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My reflections…
1. When our daughters were little, their grandpa built them a ‘secret den’ in the garage loft!
2. It’s small, oddly shaped & a bit inaccessible…we’ve kept it…just in case?!
3. Had the best of weeks, kindness, moving forwards, new connections…now I need to hide!!
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My reflections…
1. I’ve spent my whole career colouring in to-do list boxes!
2. I’ve been putting off a chore for too long, lots off tricky little steps, no-one really was going to see my toil & progress!
3. I think only a paediatrician would do this??!!
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My reflections…
1. I think coffee must have become my currency!
2. This was a thankyou 18g dose from my youngest after I paid for her car repair (Colombian, natural, jammy dodger notes)!
3. This is going to have to be a good cup!
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My reflections…
1. My favourite biscuits were Le Petit Beurre!
2. Since Christmas, I was ‘introduced’ to Pepparkakor, a thin spicy Scandinavian number!
3. The vast tin, with inevitable brokenness, has become their appeal…I’ve integrated their consumption into my to-do list!
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My reflections
1. I live via 3 bags!
2. My ‘work bag’, my (going away) suitcase & my ‘qualy bag’ (quality of life bag…drip coffee, travel spices, paracetamol, sunglasses, frisbee, waterproofs etc!)
3. If I’ve got my ‘qualy bag’ I know I’ll be ok!
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My reflections…
1. Where are all the Littmann stethoscopes?
2. I remember buying my 1st as 3rd yr med student. Lost a few, including lovely children’s one; weirdly accumulate only generics since!!!
3. They’re built to last…is there someone somewhere with thousands of Littmanns??!
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My reflections…
1. I don’t often make single yes/no diagnoses…they are often multi-layered & impact to varying degrees!
2. Many light-bulbs means you don’t really get that light-bulb moment!
3.…anyway this didn’t ‘enlighten’ my daughter’s bedroom. “So we need an electrician dad?!”
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My reflections…
1. I like to have something to look forward to at the weekend (ie putting my feet up!)
2.Today my youngest persuaded me to ‘look forward’ to help run double Mmacaron market stalls!!
3. A 2nd market for my 2nd daughter in 2nd rate weather is now my 2nd best option!!
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My reflections…
1. Presenting multi-centre epilepsy improvement in Glasgow & v aware numbers not always what seem!
2. Only 34 tables at event (no table 13!)
3. This Scottish ‘single’ (25ml) had to become a ‘double’ (50ml) so it could count at least as Irish ‘single’?!! (Also 35!!)
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My reflections…
1. One thing leads to another!?
2. Presenting ‘common epilepsies’ in Gatwick led to…transition, mental health, trains to Spain, ambient AI, politics of neuronal discharges, Prodigy firestarter!
3. Travelling from one thing to another is more complicated!
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My reflections…
1. Not everything needs fixing?!
2. I have a favourite armchair; It’s comfy, hard to get out of and no-one else sits in it!
3. I’m torn as to whether mending it is a good idea!
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My reflections…
1. I’m still not ‘out of Christmas’?!
2. I’ve been puzzling whether 1 triangle* of a large @Toblerone is equivalent to a whole small @Toblerone!
3. …pondering 1 triangle at a time!
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(*weirdly a patient this week said “square of Toblerone!”)
My reflections...
1. The woman at the till today said my superfood salad wouldn't scan was because the barcode was 'squooshed!'
2. This is my favourite new word this year!
3. This yearly montage shows how I have 'squooshed' my work life imbalance for 2025!
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My reflections…
1. There’s so much variation in “what’s right” at Christmas…an evolving complex blend of localisation, continuity and ‘consensus’!
2. I ‘must do’ fondant, my mum ‘always’ formed snowy peaks with royal.
3. Santa was this year’s first casualty!
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My reflections…
1. Some mornings it’s hard to get started?!
2. Can’t find my glasses, cough is bad in the cold, windscreen needs de-icing, still dark!
3. A morning like this makes me thankful!
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My reflections…
1. Spot my mistake?!
2. I was explaining childhood absence epilepsy to a child. “5, 6, 7, 8 years may be typical starting ages…”
3. The child made a strange noise, then a flurry of up & down non-synchronous waves of both arms, palms upwards!!
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My reflections…
1. A bit under the weather this week!
2. Coincidentally discussing work on seasonal influences on seizures and epilepsies, whilst fighting my own viruses!
3. Anyway a big chicken pie turned out to be my main ‘flu-busting’ intervention!
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My reflections…
1. I’m not particularly good at high drama!
2. I prefer to stand back, process, reflect!
3. This is how I’m planning to watch all episodes of Stranger Things!?
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My reflections…
1. My mum’s not well these days…it’s hard to find common ground when chatting!
2. We managed to spend a good 1/2 hour this week painting leaves (& ourselves!)
3. It’s humbling to find ‘play’ can be so vital in our autumn as in our childhood?!
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My reflections…
1. I am always being left messages…emails, post-its, voicemails…
2. Some are asks, some are for information, some are ‘now it’s your problem’!
3. This type of message is always welcome!!
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My reflections…
1. Things aren’t always what they seem!
2. Some things are a rare variation of something common rather than something rare or different?
3. This is a Bramley apple and the reddest one I’ve ever seen! (Can be 🍏 vs 🍎 rather than 🍏 vs🍐!)
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My reflections…
1. I gave a talk on randomness using my data series showing Rowntrees Randoms ‘always’ had an🍦so couldn’t be truly random!
2. In the talk we all opened packets, found an🍦=0 packet, rendering my talk laughable!
3. I’ve moved on since then!
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My reflections…
1. My youngest is a little gluten intolerant!
2. Lots around equity and connections this week. Just because something or someone’s different, doesn’t mean adjustment, involvement & integration can’t happen!
3. The integration…!!
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My reflections…
1. It’s all getting a bit cooler & autumnal?
2. Came across lots of attempts at snugness this week, blankets in meetings, camping with heating, beef stew lunch mug, wearing my winter cap!
3. Harley found his own way to stay warm on the move!!
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My reflections…
1. Agreeing clear actions from a meeting is often vital!
2. I often use a Post-it to scribble my actions in the moment?!
3. This action from a governance meeting, relating apparently to ‘KPop Demon Hunters’, is a bit curve ball!!
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My reflections…
1. It is quite easy to be going in the wrong direction?
2. You reimagine the cues around you & sort of believe you’re right
3. Weirdly for me the easiest way to be wrong is completely 180 degrees wrong, rather than slightly wrong!
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My reflections…
1. I still get imposter syndrome, partic in round table type collaborative activities!
2. This week I helped facilitate an Assessing Children’s Tone course!
3. This table ‘clapperboard’ was very helpful!!
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