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Nov 7 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
There's bungs to worry about right now & loads of ppl aren't sleeping well. So here are my tips 🧵for getting a decent 8 hrs. Blood glucose dips will wake you so go Miss Marple & have a wee snack at bedtime. My favie is proper hot choc: milk, real dark choc, sugar. Sorted. /1
Racing thoughts? Me too. I find playing 'Brown noise' helpful. It seems to stop my brain going off on one. Game changer. #sleep /2
Belle Brodie in #TheFairBotanists didn't come from nowhere, right? Essential oils can help. My cousin put me onto Aromatherapy Associates Deep Relax Bath Oil. I laughed at her but tried it. I laugh no more (too busy snoozing). /3
Nightsweats? I'm perimenopausal - tell me about it. We swapped to a woollen duvet and pillows. It's machine washable and breathable and it has helped. You're welcome. /4
It's worth taking an audit of your body good sense. If you're getting 1 hr of light a day onto your skin (ie you go outside), eat a couple of decent, balanced meals, don't sit on your screen for hours right before bedtime, get a few thousand steps a day - all that helps obvs /5
These are difficult times but if you let the buggars stop you sleeping, they'll be more difficult. None of these solutions will knock you out cold (the doc can give you a pill for that) but they all help. And we all need a bit of help right now, I figure so I thought I'd share./6
If like me you're perimenopausal you might also like this thread I did of things I've tried. I'm still trying. Mostly I'm a load better but as hormones fluctuate, I have tricky weeks now and then. Anyway feel free to try any of this stuff.

Some nights, despite all the things, I'm still up worrying so I sneak out to my favie tree: she's a holly & her trunk is squint & I lean against her. My pal said the other day I was MAD for this. But I'm telling you cos I strongly believe whatever helps helps & it helped me. 🌲/8
Sweet dreams everybody - we deserve the sweetest - nothing compares to getting a really good deep sleep. It's worth putting a bit of work into... xxx

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Today, a 🧵 of Scottish women worthy of statues. Statues memorialise in a specific way. They honour achievement. First, Jennie Lee, MP and founder of the Open University. The work she did as Arts Minister was transformative. Also = Mrs Aneurin Bevan. /1
Williamina Fleming, born Dundee 1857 became an astronomer at Harvard University where she classified 10,351 stars, & discovered 10 novae, 52 nebulae & 222 variable stars. Hon member of Royal Astronomical Society 1906 (not allowed to be a full member cos she was a woman - bah!) /2
Writer of over 90 works, Naomi Mitchison visited the US and talked to sharecroppers, went to Russia and write about rape & abortion and Botswana where she became hon grandmother to the Bakgatla tribe. Amazing. Intelligent. Our young women need to know they come from this. /3
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Sep 7, 2021
🧵About the historical sex trade in Edinburgh. Goodmorning. The go to starting place is Ranger's Impartial List of Ladies of Pleasure published 1775. It contains 66 entries of 'hoors' around town. Here's Lady Agnew's listing👇For sure there were more than 66 but it's a start /1
Lady Agnew was nothing new. Edinburgh had long been a 'stewing pot' Here's a prosecution from 1564 via @BeattieDr 'hur' this time not 'hoor' When prosecuted women cd have their hair cut short or be sent beyond the city limits until a 'relaxio' was ordered and they cd return/2
Once the New Town was built the sex trade was relegated to the Old Town. Here's a Victorian photo of a sex worker in a door which is recognisable as Acheson House. Known as the Cock & Trumpet (see the figures on the pediment) James McLevy mentions it in his 1830s police notes. /3
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Today: a thread about how clothes inspire characters... cos you know I find fashion inspirational right? When I was developing characters for Fair Botanists I chose palettes for each woman. It annoys me that Regency women are always portrayed in muslin - it was a colourful era/1
This dress for example, was worn by one of the women (Elizabeth) to an evening party (her palette was pale pinks and blues) IRL this one is in the MET. Knowing what a character is wearing makes them easier to envisage as they move thru the story. I love the gauze effect... /2
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Ok - so here's what happened at the weekend. I didn't tell you while it was going on cos Things. My daughter noticed a couple hanging round outside her flat, playing with her dog, Kim Chi with a squeaky toy, thru the railings. Aw, she thought, mebbe their dog died or sthg... /1
Kim Chi btw is a rescue, a sweet wee staffy with bad eyes and a lovely nature. The couple came back a few times - very kind to the dog and popping treats thru the railings now. My daughter filmed them and posted on her social media about these sweet people... /2
This weekend, there was a crash outside in the middle of the night. Molly thought it was the wind knocking over old vases outside on the bench. But it turns out someone was trying to climb down and there was a familiar ... squeak. Yes - the nice couple were dog nappers. WHAT? /3
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Today: a thread of ACTUAL Fair Botanists cos my novel did not come from nowhere. Hunners of amazing women were vital to botanical history. This is Jeanne Baret (1740-1807) 1st woman to circumnavigate the globe. Disguised as a man she collected 6000 plants. Total legend! /1 Image
Second Joyce Lambert pictured here in the 1950s challenged the status quo and proved that the lakes of the Broads were in fact man-made cos She Knew Her Stuff. Also, excellent jodphurs, Joyce. /2 Image
Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft, sis-in-law of Mary Wollstoncraft & aunt of Mary Shelly, was a N American botanist, botanical illustrator, AND (most gloriously) a women's rights advocate. Her manuscript on plant specimens (1828) was rediscovered recently Gaun yersel' Anne. /3 Image
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So: a short thread about the ongoing effect of the Holocaust (also called the Shoah) cos it's #HolocaustMemorialDay #LightTheDarkness #NeverAgain I grew up in a wealthy Jewish family in Edinburgh in the 70s. Nobody mentioned the Shoah. People didn't want to upset or scare kids./1
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My family regularly had summer parties. Big buffet. Music in the garden. Maybe 100 folk. We had a big house. It was at one of these parties I made the connection that some of my parents' friends (ie some of my friends' parents) had survived what had happened. /3
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