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Gymnopedie - 2nd prize winner for the Health Education England Essay Competition 2021: Holding onto Humanity.
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Healthcare Resilience
A metanarrative systematic review and synthesis of reviews. Full article here: For complex and multidisciplinary topics such as resilience, the meta-narrative approach presents a method to make sense of the various research traditions and paradigms involved, and allows a…
Pine hive
The Pine hive was a salvage project based on the principles of the Freedom hive. It is an unmanaged, frameless, insulated, observation hive. The inner walls are constructed with scrap wood from old fence panels. The insulation consists of wool…
Woodwise Lip Balm
Well, another branch out of the beekeeping hobby! 2023 saw us render significant amounts of beeswax from the 14 frames we harvested. In addition to the soap we make and the jackets I rewax, beeswax is also a great product…
Mark’s Enhanced ‘Shrooms Solution (MESS)
It’s been several years since I wrote Mark’s Oyster Mushroom MethodologY (MOMMY). Since then, I have tried and learnt lots in this cultivation journey and so, in a classic Johari window format, I will now move on to consider what…
Society of Medical Writers’ Autumn 2022 competition
I cannot believe I have won the SOMW’s autumn 2022 competition for non-fiction! Having recently joined SOMW, I was impressed with the quality of some of the writing in their journals. Several of their members have published books, while many…
Woodwise Beeswax Soaps
With the 650g rendered from our first harvest, we have been exploring ways of using beeswax. Of course, an obvious way, considering the current energy crisis and threatened planned blackouts in the UK, is to make candles. But we didn’t.…
A Resilient Death – JICS
This letter was published in the Journal of the Intensive Care Society (JICS). The public’s response to Queen Elizabeth II’s death in September 2022 was overwhelming, and filled social media for weeks. In response, I thought about how she demonstrated…
Woodwise Honey
Raw, unfiltered honey, sustainably harvested from a small suburban apriary in Greater Manchester, UK.
Another Honeybee Epidemic?
We have not learnt from the pandemic. The recent news about honeybee eradication in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, demonstrates we have learnt little from our experiences. Whether Ebola, SARS, COVID19, or in this instance, the deformed wing virus (DWV),…