The Match Day Ritual

The Food of Football Stadiums

Food and football, it seems, are closely entwined. If you support a team, I’m sure you have your own food-based match day ritual, one which has been denied to you for the last 18 months. It might be your favourite takeaway near the stadium, or an opportunist stall that pops up and disappears every other weekend, or it might even be food in the stadium itself. Each ritual reflects both personal and communal histories, sometimes passed down from father to child, or sometimes rituals created from scratch. And as you’ll see in today’s newsletter, despite once local fans scattered like a diaspora, despite the invention of half and half scarfs, and even despite the homogenous world of Pukka, there is still nothing more hyper-regional, nothing that speaks more to a sense of place, to a community, than a well constructed pie.

Read the Vittles blog in full at… off to the match now...

Vittles source: https://vittles.substack.com/p/the-match-day-ritual?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMjIyODQyMiwicG9zdF9pZCI6Mzk0OTM5NTQsIl8iOiJBd0I3ayIsImlhdCI6MTYyNzkyOTM3NCwiZXhwIjoxNjI3OTMyOTc0LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzQxOTYiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.r9fBtzxoUohGw4Y3IaY3eVTMIOOep6cDrLvmXUskxgc

Words that make me go hmmm: Care

Rewriting social care

Care.

We use the term all the time.

Care is described in a plan and delivered in a package.

Care has a start date and an end date. It comes in episodes. Time frames. Short-term. Temporary. Intermediate. Respite. Long-term. End-of-life.

Care has a cost. A fee. An invoice. A payment date.

Care has records and logs and notes and charts. Risk assessments. Rotas. Timesheets.

Care wears a uniform.

Care is a task. It’s done to, and for.

Care is a setting. Somewhere to ‘place’ ‘the vulnerable’.

Care is a service. A system. A sector.

Care is for ‘others’.

Care for others

Much of what makes me go hmmm about the term ‘care’ is encapsulated in the Department of Health and Social Care’s latest campaign to recruit more people to work in adult social care.

The campaign is called ‘Care for others. Make a difference’[1].

Let’s break that down.

‘Care for’…

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What is commissioning?

An interesting piece reflecting on models and iterations of commissioning in theory and practice – including lots of diagrams.

Does it remain the chosen path?

Source: https://chosen-path.org/2020/08/28/what-is-commissioning/

Court authorises new start for man in supported living

Mouse in the Court

At this attended hearing before District Judge Mark Mullins, the Court of Protection granted an application by the London Borough of Hackney that it is in a man’s best interests to reside in supported living accommodation.

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Babyteeth — almondemotion

It’s a comedy, Although I don’t remember laughing.

Source: Babyteeth — almondemotion

Have you watched Babyteeth? 2019 Movie.

We are all growing, ageing, slowing-down and deteriorating.

An ideal film for a geriatrician.

Small Steps & Giant Leaps

Having just returned from a family holiday, I thought I would share some reflections on how this holiday compares with a previous holiday 2 years ago. *(That’s a whole previous blog all on its own).

During the course of the week, I saw many situations unfold in front of me and my mind automatically recognised them as significant signs of real progress or “Giant Leaps”. To the outside world, they would not have gained any attention, and would be considered as completely “normal” interactions or behaviours of a 14 yr old, however to me they were the result of a huge amount of effort on his part and over 3 years of Trauma Informed Therapeutic Parenting on ours.

Read the blog in full at…

Source: https://giespeace.blog/2021/07/31/small-steps-giant-leaps/

Gie's Peace - A Mindful Approach

Having just returned from a family holiday, I thought I would share some reflections on how this holiday compares with a previous holiday 2 years ago. *(That’s a whole previous blog all on its own).

During the course of the week, I saw many situations unfold in front of me and my mind automatically recognised them as significant signs of real progress or “Giant Leaps”. To the outside world, they would not have gained any attention, and would be considered as completely “normal” interactions or behaviours of a 14 yr old, however to me they were the result of a huge amount of effort on his part and over 3 years of Trauma Informed Therapeutic Parenting on ours.

• This week my 14 yr old made a friend. He approached another boy his own age and struck up a conversation, they exchanged numbers and they met up each day for the…

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A proven solution to ocean plastics

Mr. Trash Wheel^®

Known as “Mr. Trash Wheel,” this floating device sucks up plastic from polluted harbors.

Source: https://www.mrtrashwheel.com/