Mature Speech & Language Therapist-to-be. She/her, xe/xer. Personal twitter on diverse topics.
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Mhairi Isabelle retweeted
❤️ When @RCSLT published the briefing, it was supported by 46 organisations. It is now being supported by 48. We are massively grateful to them for their support - there's still time for more!
📢 @MikeysWish_VDA brilliantly highlights why the #InvestInSLT debate matters.
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ALT Front page of a briefing for the #InvestInSLT debate on 27 January 2025.
Mhairi Isabelle retweeted
Blue Monday is a piece of crap pseudo science originally part of a travel company's press release to sell holidays.
Can we all try to avoid rewarding marketeers, using this term, which tries to sell goods by parasiting on the back of real mental health campaigns.
Mhairi Isabelle retweeted
Back in my day, most paid apps / software had ONE price that you paid ONCE and then you owned it FOREVER
Everything’s a subscription model now. WHY is everything, even something as simple as a photo editing app, $10+ per MONTH now
This shit is wringing people dry and for what
Mhairi Isabelle retweeted
Women held a number of different medical roles in the medieval period, serving as healers and caregivers, wet nurses, hospital staff, midwives and paid professionals.
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ALT A historiated initial showing a midwife handing a newborn baby to its mother, who lies in a bed.
ALT A historiated initial showing a female medical practitioner performing cupping on a patient.
Mhairi Isabelle retweeted
"chatgpt helped this person with a busy schedule plan meals" i think it would be nice if in one hundred years water still existed on this planet !
Mhairi Isabelle retweeted
Oh they did that! In Italy a lot of rich ppl ran off to their rural villas (where historically they had escaped things like malaria) and were like, “now that we are safe we can have our little parties!” And then they all died.
Mhairi Isabelle retweeted
How much is the £11.44 an hour minimum wage damaging British business? With me in the studio to discuss this are a £91,000 a year Tory MP, a £200,000 a year rightwing journalist and a chief executive on £4.2m.
Mhairi Isabelle retweeted
Today is Twelfth Night, the eve of the Epiphany. It's a time for festivities marking the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas, and the transition from midwinter into the new year: parties, king-cakes, fire rituals, and wassailing to waken the trees from their winter sleep.
Mhairi Isabelle retweeted
🧵 30. According to a 17th century proverb, a COCKSTRIDE—literally, one step of a cockerel—is the amount by which the days seem to lengthen after the New Year.
Mhairi Isabelle retweeted
Just your New Year reminder that public ownership is hugely popular ❤️
#NewYear #PublicOwnership
Mhairi Isabelle retweeted
Your regular reminder that Nigel Farage’s stated policy is to scrap the NHS & introduce a private insurance health system in the UK, too.
Mhairi Isabelle retweeted
“It is unacceptable that ... the UK should see an increase in the number of conditions that can be linked to poverty and poor nutrition, and yet this is the reality.”> Hospital admissions for lack of vitamins soaring in England, NHS figures show theguardian.com/society/2025…
Mhairi Isabelle retweeted
Happy 2025, everyone!
At the Tudor court, New Year's Day was cause for celebration & spectacle, as 1 January was the traditional day of gift-giving, as opposed to Christmas
At Henry VIII's court, New Year's Day 1532 was also an opportunity to display both favoritism & malice 🧵
Mhairi Isabelle retweeted
‘There were seen in the air fiery flashes such as mortals of that age had never seen before, and they were seen almost the whole night,’ #OTD in 744/5, according to Symeon of Durham. 📸Janek Pärn
ALT A dazzling Northern Lights display made up of green and purple.
Mhairi Isabelle retweeted
Happy New Year!
Whatever you do in 2025,
ALT 'Do it for Bulba' - various pictures of Bulbasaur are posted to a wall plague to obscure certain letters
Mhairi Isabelle retweeted
Time for a brisk walk to burn off the 50,000 calories consumed this week. 10-15 minutes should do it. And then... probably a ham sandwich.
Mhairi Isabelle retweeted
'Make we mirth
For Christ's birth,
And sing we Yule til Candlemas!'
The medieval Twelve Days of Christmas, from Christmas to Epiphany, formed a special season - a chain of festivals, each with its own customs and carols. Yuletide is just beginning! aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/…
