Blog of Susannah Quinsee about life, work, parenthood and play
I trained as a Lego Serious Play (LSP) practitioner in December 2018 and was just getting into my stride of using it more widely when … Covid… Bit hard to do Lego remotely as it is such a tangible thing Continue reading Lego Serious Play - online
I watched the film Sylvia the other night, which I found incredibly moving and was haunted by the story and characters for a few days. Not just Sylvia’s death, but reading more about Assia Wevill and her death with her Continue reading Prologue to Spring by Sylvia Plath
So I’m horribly late posting this but, the perfect is the enemy of the good etc etc and just going through photos for this blog has inspired me that there were some good moments in February so I’m going to Continue reading February round-up
Today is the Spring Equinox where night and day are equal length. I’ve just done a yoga workshop (online of course!) run by East of Eden and Hermione Armitage which was wonderful and made me feel full of Spring energy. Continue reading Grey by Edwin Morgan
I wrote this post at the end of last year, but with lots of things happening in December it never got published. Now as we are still in Lockdown 3 in the UK and perhaps somewhat fatigued by remote learning, Continue reading Ideas for …. Engaging Students Online through playful interludes
In honour of Mothering Sunday, I wanted to include a poem about motherhood and in honour of mothers. Despite scouring the internet, nothing really fit, and then I remembered this book 44 Things by Kirsty Gunn which I bought when Continue reading Extract from “44 Things” by Kirsty Gunn
It is International Women’s Day on Monday (8th March) and so in celebration of that I wanted a poem about strong women. This one pretty much fits that criteria and it was one that I wanted to include in my Continue reading A Woman Speaks by Audre Lorde
Bit of self-indulgence this week as I meant to post this earlier and forgot as I was feeling a bit under the weather. Back in January, I did the 64 Million Artists Creative Challenge and one day was tasked to Continue reading My lockdown 3 poem