@mairsrambles
Tea drinker, nature lover, big reader. Enjoys walking, cooking, music. Works in HE in Wales. Vol sector background. Interested in engagement, research, reflective practice & wellbeing. Views my own! π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ π³οΈβπ https://linktr.ee/mairerigby
Love Welsh history? Family stories? Old photographs, maps, letters or records?
Take 5β10 minutes to complete the survey before 15 March
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Help ensure Walesβ archives are visible, valued and used; now and for generations to come.
Calling all Early Career Researchers in Wales π£οΈ
Join your fellow ECRs at Aberystwyth this year for the next ECR Colloquium, hosted by the Learned Society of Wales.
www.learnedsociety.wales/ecr-home/ecr...
Tomato and butter bean (very good)
Large tortoiseshell butterfly confirmed no longer extinct in UK
Good things today:
- Felt a lot better than I have been this week
- Went to the gym and did a proper yoga session
- Did some of the life admin I'd been putting off, due to not feeling great
- Batch-cooked a soup
Soundtrack to the week: Courtney Marie Andrews, Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, Laura Veirs, Aimee Mann, Katherine Priddy, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Suzanne Vallie, Delyth & Angharad
Tonight's cooking soundtrack is 'Love Lives Where Rules Die' by Suzanne Vallie.
Have reached the age of turning to my partner and saying "I'm just going to rest my eyes for a few minutes ".
Booked my tickets for this www.southwalesmagazine.co.uk/post/don-t-m...
The Healers You can hear them moving among the ruins, hear them by their silence in the noisy crowds. You can see them, opening their little bags, opening the shrapneled hearts of strangers, crouching before the body of a child to lean down and whisper her a story, a story in which what's happening is not what's happening. They mend; they stitch; they carry. They work; they weep; they lose. And when nothing can be done among the rubble, they kneel there as the fires fall around them and they cradle the face of the dying, the life that is trying to speak to them, the life that whispers, listen, and they do. βJoseph Fasano
For all the healers working in this world:
Gonna listen to the new Katherine Priddy and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy albums while I tidy up.
Photo of Lucille Clifton
βthese hips are big hips
they need space to
move around in.
they don't fit into little
petty places. these hips
are free hips.β ~ homage to my hips, Lucille Clifton for #InternationalWomensDay
βThis volume on the poet, womenβs magazine editor, international public lecturer and political campaigner Cranogwen is a masterclass on linking life and literature, and on presenting poetry in translation. It introduces one of the most charismatic figures of nineteenth-century Wales to an international audience. In lively prose, Jane Aaaron leads us from Cranogwenβs childhood in poverty-stricken seaside village Llangrannog to a poetic stardom doubted by male bards: we accompany Cranogwen on lecture tours in north America, campaign with her in the valleys of south Wales, and feel the love she shares with her woman β¦ in an elegant and multifaceted volume you will read again and again.β Dr Marion LΓΆffler, Reader in Welsh History and History, Cardiff University
'Cranogwen in Victorian Wales' by Jane Aaron is out now!
This #InternationalWomensDay, discover the fascinating life of Sarah Jane Rees who was hailed as a pioneering forerunner of the βNew Womanβ and inspired women to overcome class and gender barriers.
π www.uwp.co.uk/book/cranogw...
45 years ago today
Pauline Black from The Selecter at Cardiff University 8th March 1981
#paulineblack #theselecter #cardiffuniversity #cardiff #wales #caerdydd #cymru #cardiffmusichistory
For all the constant macho, strong man leadership, that dominates our screens, I think overwhelmingly what most people want, at a deeper level, is leaders with empathy & emotional intelligence.
Dr Elaine Ingham in front of a microscope
On #IWD26 we pay tribute to Dr Elaine Ingham, groundbreaking US microbiologist and pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement, who died last month. Her approach to #soilhealth influenced how we teach & plant our orchards today
π www.theorchardproject.org.uk/blog/iwd-tri...
#CommunityOrchards
This International Womenβs Day, weβre highlighting stories of women who helped shape movements for rights and equality, from early feminist writings to oral histories of activism.
Read the blog post here: link.bl.uk/15n
#TheBritishLibrary #InternationalWomensDay
βThere is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.β
Howard Thurman
Now moving onto Aimee Mann's 'Lost in Space', which is one of my favourite albums.
Making the miso aubergines in Rukmini Iyer's Green Cookbook. Not sure anything can beat the version in Meera Sodhaβs Dinner, but these look good too.
Tonight's cooking soundtrack is 'Loose Future' by Courtney Marie Andrews.
Ah, Townes. So wonderful β€οΈ
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Tonight's cooking soundtrack is 'The Lookout' by Laura Veirs.
move slow and repair things
On 24 March, @ukrio.bsky.social will host a public webinar exploring the role of supervisors in shaping positive research culture β including what effective and supportive supervision looks like and how it can be sustained over time.
π Learn more and register: ukrio.org/the-role-of-...
It's Bandcamp Friday
Today I'm looking forward to working at home quietly on my project report. I like writing reports.
