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Sara Sheridan

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18 Dec

So Menopause adventures: A THREAD👇of things that have worked for me. It's a personal journey but here's what I did. 1st, when I started researching most of what I read was way too subjective so I decided I needed measureables. Tip 1: take your base temperature every day. /1

If you have an iphone the health app will let you track it. I discovered my temperature was on the low side. 37 is normal. Days I woke with a 35 were bad days. Days that started 36 were better. And yes, there are ways to bring your temperature up. Among the most effective ... /2

eating protein & carbs together every 4 hrs, eating breakfast when I got up & having dark hot choc before bed. Hot flushes: These happened separately - but keeping my basal temp at 37 ie improving my metabolism helped balance the hormones that gave me hot flushes. No question/3

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Sara Sheridan

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16 Dec

I normally have my nieces & nephews for a Naughtiest Auntie Xmas party but not in 2020 so here are my wickedest games to keep small people occupied. 1: Cocktail Competition. Put out ice, mint, lemon, orange, cordials, appletise & fruit juice. They make their own & I judge. Fierce

2 Jelly Hunt. Their presents are hidden & the clue to find it is on a folded piece of paper inside cling film in a bowl of jelly. They are not allowed to use their hands to get it out. This is the one that is most talked about by the older kids as the best game fo the party.

3 Death Scenes. Instead of charades (yawn) Each kid acts out a death scene from a book or movie and everyone has to guess who died. Lit kids do Beth in Little Women Emos: Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge Someone once did Bambi's Mum. 😂

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Sara Sheridan

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29 Nov

@news_RSE

Time for a THREAD👇: amazing Scottish women who had disabilities. Let's start with this lass, brilliant analytical chemist Christina Miller: deaf & blind in 1 eye. In the 1st 5 women fellows @news_RSE & an inspirational teacher. This building 👇 is named after her. Trailblazer /1

@blackwood_HC

'Warrior in a wheelchair' Dr Margaret Blackwood MBE set up the Disability Income Group Scotland and founded a housing association to provide homes designed for disabled people (now @blackwood_HC). Legend. /2

@ArtlinkEdin

Nurse Angela Booth Dobbie founded @ArtlinkEdin to help disabled people access the arts. She was also a daredevil who didn't let her disability hold her back from paragliding. She said 'I like to feel the wind on my face'. Some quine. /3

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Sara Sheridan

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26 Aug

@news_RSE

Today: a new THREAD👇of sheroes: women who disappeared into their menfolk. 1st Dorothy Livesey Reynolds, a key geologist who worked w/ her husband at Edinburgh Uni but wasn't paid as it was deemed 'inappropriate' WHAT? She won a Lyell medal & was 1st female member of @news_RSE /1

@news_RSE

Mathematicians & sisters Jane & Flora Sang pioneered work on logarithmic tables originally credited to this guy Edward (their dad) It wasn't until 1874 they were honoured by @news_RSE as the originators. So many women disappear into their relations' biographies. Sheesh! /2

@lyceumtheatre

Next a group of women: the Bondagers, coerced into unpaid labour they often were offered as a 'bonus' to their husband's paid work - that continued in farming communities into the 20th century. Sue Glover wrote a play about them. The 2nd pic is the cast from @lyceumtheatre
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Sara Sheridan

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6 Apr

Happy 700th to the Declaration of Arbroath, #Arbroath700 . It was a male concern but for #MondayMotivaton here's a THREAD of cracking 14th century lasses 👇1st, resistance leader, Christina Bruce (yes that Bruce) who held Kildrummy Castle in 1333. Pretty formidable quine. /1

Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan, helped crown the Bruce in 1306. She was caged at Berwick for her affiliation with the Bruce cause - this means she was imprisoned in a cage hung off the side of a castle. In the open air. Say, what? I know, the middle ages were fierce. /2

This lass is Marjory Bruce who wd have become Queen of Scotland on the Bruce's death had she not died falling from a horse while pregnant. Her child was saved & became Robert II. Ill-fated, she was also caged at the Tower of London for a while and held prisoner in a nunnery. /3

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Sara Sheridan

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2 Apr

#NHSLouisaJordan is trending but Louisa was only one of many brilliant Scottish medical women who contributed during WWI. So a THREAD of my favies 👇Flora Masson was awarded a Royal Red Cross 1st class & became a sister at Rosewell Hospital. She also wrote several biographies. /1

From Arran, Mary Lee Milne was head cook at the Scottish Women's Hospitals and worked closely with Dr Elsie Inglis, who was key to setting them up. Milne received a medal in 1916 cos she had been under fire. She later said 'I cannot bear to think of the things I saw.' /2

Norah Neilson Grey served as a nurse during WWI but she was an alumni of the Glasgow School of Art & also painted and sketched life in military hospitals. She endowed us with an invaluable record as well as undertaking her medical duties. These women are legends. So. Brave /3

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