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Just over an hour until we're on BBC Radio Berkshire's Morning Show!

Catch us at 7.15

The letters CMIC in black on an abstract white and blue background

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Big apologies for neglecting this account. Must do better.....
News!
We're doing a brew with our good friends at Double Barrelled Brewery this Friday!
Beer will be a DDH Pale and will report more on the brewday....
#brewing #beer #LearningDisabilities

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Our daughter's intense meds treatment of late (steroids) has given her a huge uncontrollable appetite.

90% of her speech is pretty much food related tbh

My husband described her food monologues as Spoken Word Food Poetry.

He nailed it

A person.with a speech bubble that reads "Mum, MUM. I want cake. I want cheese. I want banana, I want peas. I want biscuits. I starving. I thirsty. I want a treat. I starving." Handwritten text below reads "Spoken Word Food Poetry"

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Observation in the pub yesterday evening

2 people sat at a pub table. One is gesticulating with his hands. Handwritten text below reads "Drunk Men Talking Physics Loudly"

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For me, leaving the house is a work in progress

A person lying on a sofa, arms outstretched, eyes shut, smiling. On the floor is a mug of something steaming hot and a laptop. Handwritten text above reads "Oh the relief!" then below is written "She didn't have to leave the house for the rest of the week"

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Nice article about us here 👇
If you like what we're doing and are able to, please consider donating using the link on our homepage, thanks.
Boosts welcome x
#LearningDisability #rdguk #beer #brewing
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-66946694

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Printing out posters to put up around Reading advertising the @CMIC crowdfunder and new beer launch. If you live in or around Reading UK you should definitely come and support this event and the collective.
If you live elsewhere in the world and like what the collective are doing you can still support them, just visit their page for details. Thanks x.
#LearningDisability #beer #brewing #rdguk

Pale blue poster, getting darker towards the bottom with small red circles. Headline at top says 'The count me in collective presents.....'
The there is a drawing of three happy looking people holding a large roll of paper. On it it says 'Crowdfunder and new beer launch' At the bottom it says 'At the Castle Tap 14th October 7-10 pm

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Today's picture

A person hugging another person (eyes closed) who has a sword and a shield. Handwritten text below reads "She'd spent so long fighting, she'd forgotten about living"

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Evening

Btw, alternative name for this drawing is "Fears, tears, and beers".

A person on the phone, eyes shut and crying. Handwritten text below reads "She'd waited so long for answers"

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It's been such a long few days

#epilepsy #disability #ParentCarer #UnpaidCarer

A tired person looking at an opened out map. It's covered in chaotic scribbles including one that drops off the edge of the map, plus the words/writing 'focal' 'EEG' 'tonic' 'buccal' 'WTF' 'who knows...' Handwritten text above reads "Unfortunately the epilepsy route map wasn't very useful"

After an evening of semi constant seizure or sleeping it off, A's night is now completely borked. We've given up and got up.

It's nearly 3am. She's not really slept at all yet.

Morning

My daughter watching her tablet on our sofa in our sitting room at nearly 3am

@stavvers unfortunately not possible as we're now estranged but it helps me to understand my very odd semi cult like upbringing. It's quite healing for me to understand what might have been going on. For example we were all in awe of her visions! And I felt like she was special and I wasn't because I didn't have them. It made for a strange mix of an inspiring quite wild alternative childhood, and extremely fucked up

@stavvers @passenger I wondered about Hilma af Klint and also Cecil Collins. And not art related but maybe Harriet Tubman

@stavvers this is so fascinating to me. I think my mother has these (but is undiagnosed so she believes them and is completely resistant to the idea they could be epilepsy based) It's made more plausible by the fact that her sister and niece and nephew also were diagnosed with epilepsy. One of my children has epilepsy though it's syndrome related, and another has occasional non epileptic seizures. We're a fascinating bundle of neurology

Glorious magical couple of hours out with my favourite fuckwit @ArtBrew

Selfie (I have turquoise hair and a turquoise shirt) out in my home town

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I've been a bit quiet on here of late partially due to school hols, partially my daughter's epilepsy struggles and partially because I'm not drawing much! But I got this lovely poster commission for The Castle Tap in Reading's Autumn Beer Fest

#beer #BeerFestival #ReadingUK