Interesting Links for 04-08-2023

1. A New Mode of Cancer Treatment

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2. An estimated 250,000 children would be lifted out of poverty if the two-child benefit limit was removed - 1.1 million children in-poverty would be better off.

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3. People living in low-traffic neighbourhoods support them, even if they're drivers

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4. We're now finding out the damaging results of the mandated return to the office-and it's worse than we thought

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5. Leith Walk's bronze pigeons return home after 17 years

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I bought Sophia The Wheel Of The Year

Sophia has a bunch of posters up in her bedroom, with numbers, letters, colours, and animals on them. I like all of them, and they've all been really useful.

Except for the months and seasons. Where they don't actually match up to what the year looks like. The months one is all text, and the seasons has Summer and Autumn opposite each other, which makes no sense to me, let alone Sophia.

What I really wanted was a wheel of the year. The months arranged in a circle, with a quadrant for each season, and (if possible) a few important dates picked out. You'd think this would be something that existed, but a bunch of searching found me nothing.

So, when a talented artist friend mentioned that she was between commissions and happy to take on a one-off piece, I immediately messaged her. Obviously, I was going to pay her for her time, and even at minimum wage it takes a fair few hours to produce a decent work of art. So I wasn't 100% sure that I wanted to go through with it - and came to the agreement that I'd pay her to produce the initial sketch, and if I loved it then she'd go ahead to the finished work.

And I did. She was very happy to take on a few suggestions, and asked questions about the things that Sophia would love to see (Halloween, a robin, Santa - and I asked for a zombie for Gideon, who loves them). And then she produced the sketch, and it made me very happy, so she made me the finished version.

And then I got it printed, and this evening I showed it to Sophia, who insisted that we take down the poster by her head in bed and replace it with her new favourite.



If you like it, and you have some spare cash to spend on some personal art, then I highly recommend that you take a look at https://www.seobhanhope.com/

*I fully expect one of you to come back to me with 15 examples in the comments. But none of them will be as lovely as this.