Salley Vickers

The inspirations behind my new novel "The Gardener", out on 7 July. Know more salleyvickers.com @VikingBooksUK @CBGBooks

@giles_fraser @horsehospital Great to see this Hurrah Alice

Very proud of my wonderful daughter, Alice, whose first solo show opens at the @horsehospital gallery in Bloomsbury this Saturday.

I wonder if the Minister of Health has ever spent the night on the front line in any Accident and Emergency department in the land and witnessed the decency, kindness, competence and compassion of the staff who are forced to work in ever more cramped and degrading facilities?

Also, he was Chancellor of the bloomin' Exchequer in one of those 'predecessor' Conservative governments!

Not surprised to hear unsatisfactory reports of the Priory group. As a therapist I had many refugees from the Priory and found their accounts of treatment disturbing #mentalhealth #depression #anorexia

@ajlees For myself, when asked to fill in such forms I generally find I lie, not deliberately but because I never really know what I truly feel at any time other than the actual present.

I filled in the Non-Motor Symptoms Questionnaire for Parkinson's disease and ticked 10 out of 30 boxes . I see no advantage to dishing this pseudometric out to people with Parkinson's disease before or on arrival at clinic. Concentrate on improving history taking at med school

@ncolloff Henry Miller? Crikey!

@SalleyVickers Houghton spent three years reading his way through Swedenborg (he tells Henry Miller in a letter) and the deep grasp of what he read shows, transformed into a compelling fictional life & context.

And my most enjoyable fictional read of 2022 was a re-read of Claude Houghton's 'Julian Grant loses his way' as a compelling parable of the afterlife of an egotist infused with Swedenborg's vision of the self-creation of heaven or of hell. ncolloff.blogspot.com/2020/04/half-w…

@ajlees @RichardSearling @Kev_Roberts @IanLevine @lochossian Suspect there are many ailments that Woukd respond favourable to dance

@SalleyVickers @RichardSearling @Kev_Roberts @IanLevine @lochossian These dance party Parky stompers are such an inspiration to all of us in the Parkinson network. If we can find a way to reset the dopamine dial permanently it may provide the next golden moment

The dancing Queen out on the floor on World Parkinson’s day. Keep the faith. Cleethorpespier #dancepartypd @RichardSearling @Kev_Roberts @IanLevine @lochossian

I'm rather in love with @wesstreeting Yes I know it'll be unrequited but he is one of the most intelligent Labour politicians for many years. Can't wait for him to save our NHS

@FannyBlake1 Lovely to see this and hope you are recovering well

Out walking for the first time since last year’s op. The fields were so green, speedwell so blue, the May so white. Absolutely wonderful. Uplifting

For Easter, sharing a new short story available to read on my website. Enjoy! salleyvickers.com/the-easter-sho…

@EdwinaLL Yes, I was working as a therapist then and encountered therapists who were fixated on child abuse and encouraged false memories

I once wrote a short story for @prospect_uk which is now available to read on my website. To read click - salleyvickers.com/the-sofa-by-sa…

@PParkerWriting My own view entirely

“I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.” Vita Sackville-West, born 9 March 1892 #vsackvillewest #vita

Kew is like my natural grandmother. I was there recording with @alice_emily for her wonderful podcast #WhyWomenGrow, talking about memory, motherhood and places that make us. Listen here anchor.fm/alice-vincent4… #TheGardener @kewgardens @VikingBooksUK @CBGBooks

@ncolloff I wish I'd said that......

“Where beauty is greatest, there we should look also for the greatest depth of meaning.” From A Defence of Shelley’s poetry in Kathleen Raine’s Defending Ancient Springs

@StephJaneFarley @ajlees @ProfRayTallis Both in my case

@ajlees @SalleyVickers @ProfRayTallis Are you speaking as a clinician or a patient?

A hospital’s atmosphere markedly influences the healing process. I have found that in London small old National Health Service hospitals are the most therapeutic and glossy new American owned factory clinics the least @SalleyVickers @ProfRayTallis

@ncolloff One of my favourite poets illustrated by one of my favourite artists. What's not to like and I am currently sitting looking out at the 'silly' sheep

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in their places where I left them, asleep like cattle. From Sabbath poems by Wendell Berry (or sheep in this case)!

Lovely to see this again.