I've reanimated the blog on my website - I didn't even realise it had disappeared, and glad to see that previous posts have been reinstated. I'm going to try to blog a few things over the coming months, but for now, here's one of my most popular posts www.astridcoxon.com/post/boundar...

Boundaries and "dual relationships" in counselling

Boundaries are regularly discussed in counselling and psychotherapy (and in mental health and wellbeing more generally). In essence, boundaries are the limits or rules around the therapeutic relations...

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Watching Star Trek: Into Darkness before it leaves UK Netflix Peter Weller is in it He just said "but I made a mistake" Ben and I both basically bellowed "now it's time to erase that mistake" at the TV

So far this year in knitting I have: - cast on 9 new projects - completed 5 projects - frogged 6 projects and there's still three blankets in limbo (one of them was started in 2013)

What's on your needles? I'm currently trying to finally use a while bunch of cheap acrylic yarns I've had since my teens (I can't seem to just... Get rid of them). Pattern is Seaglass cardigan by Wool+Pine

Ah, I see East Suffolk Council have decided to boldly declare how much they despise disabled people www.eadt.co.uk/news/2492439...

Council defends new cycle rack in disabled parking bay

East Suffolk Council defends the new bike rack installed in a disabled bay in Hungate car park, Beccles, after it received backlash for rack's…

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Knitting and planning what you want to knit next are two separate hobbies

We are at a critical moment in our profession's history. Our survival depends on resisting the right. Our clients depend on it. We must not mirror national and international politics. If your professional body has elections coming up, there is no room for apathy. Vote.

My partner has had a couple of referrals at our local hospital. The respiratory referral has an approx 26 week wait for an appointment. The urology referral is for *66 weeks*.

I don't like to yuck anyone's yum but I watched SAFE and it was... Not good.

Martyn@martynpedler.com · 3y ago

I've only seen THE STRANGER but I will say: friends don't let friends adapt Harlan Coben.

I've done a couple of little knits since the jumper, but have just cast on a new Big Shawl to use up some pesky lace weight leftovers that have been in my stash for over a decade. I never really use lace weight and I'm keen for them to end up in something impressive.

What are your TV/cinema pet peeves? One of mine is the number of head injuries that people seem to just... Walk away from? They don't even puke. Significant knock to the head, and it either cleanly knocks them out like a light, or they basically walk it off.

Closed captions shouldn't give more info than you can get from the audio. I'm watching Rebel Moon (part one) and some of the non-dialogue captions (e.g. [Bloodaxe fleet approaches]) provides additional info that hasn't yet been mentioned in dialogue. It's basically a bunch of mini spoilers.

I don't know who needs to know this, but June plays wrong notes in episode 6 of the Brothers Sun. Those Es aren't supposed to be flat. I had to run to the piano and check.

Watching a recording from Counselling Tutor about autism-informed practice, and a bit bemused that Lees-Oakes keeps almost apologising for using the word "disability" (ie. "I'm using the wording in the legislation", "there's that word again, disability") - What's wrong with the word "disability"??

Amused to notice that the Martlesham Heath branch of Screwfix has a typo on their receipt & invoice headers

A Man on the Inside is essential viewing. Ow, my feelings.

The manliest moment in all cinematographic history is Mads Mikkelsen vaulting over the counter in Hannibal S2E01/E13

Doing my occasional rewatch of Hannibal (series), and whilst it's *rammed* with bad science from across a broad spectrum of disciplines, it's truly a beautiful piece of cinematography

Fall of the House of Usher is horrible and vile and very very good. Mike Flanagan does it again.

Fascism always starts subtly—until it doesn’t. Billionaires funding radical politics aren’t just a threat; they’re an attack on democracy itself | Natacha Kennedy

Fight back against fascism: how big money is threatening democracy

Fascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future

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Word.

My mother just told me that her godmother "liked chocolate, just like me", as if a Belgian liking chocolate is some sort of groundbreaking piece of information

When I left X, I left 260000ish followers who cared about the NHS. This is bad because the NHS is in a state of emergency and EveryDoctor has just launched an important petition. If you can see this, please could you follow me and share this? 🤞💙🚨

Just had my first festive meal in the form of a Christmas panini from the hospital canteen. Falalala laaa lalalalaaa 🌟❄️

“I don’t think it’s fair to say I ONLY eat pizza. I also eat cheese and tomato pasta. And cheese and tomato panini.” thedailytism.com/why-am-i-alw...

“Why am I always so tired?” Asks autistic woman who exclusively eats pizza

An autistic woman who subsists entirely on a diet of dough, tomato and cheese has appealed for answers as to why she’s dead on her feet, it has been rumoured.  Sarah Harrow, 37, is unfortunately too o...

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I saw a lovely looking jumper with stranded colour work for sale at Weird Fish and I got so close to buying it before I realised with was mostly made of acrylic. Why are clothes made of plastic 😭

Your brand isn't a sustainability focused brand if you're constantly bringing out limited edition cases for your product to encourage customers to buy a different version of a plastic product they already have (yes I got another marketing email from W!ld deodorant)

Pasteur wasn’t such an old fool.

CNN@cnn.com · 2y ago

Distribution of Raw Farm raw milk products has been suspended after bird flu virus was found in milk samples, the California Department of Food and Agriculture said.

I don't know how to explain this, but some of the music in Dragon Age: the Veilguard isn't fantasy game music, it's sci fi game music

For the record, despite what the auto transcription in Teams reports, I did not, in fact, say "dude, I'm really glad" to a research participant