Fiona MacKenzie

words, books, music, dance, yoga, art, knitting, textiles … Parkinson’s … trying to keep brain and body connected

[Jonny Acheson @jonny_acheson]

Can you educate about #Parkinsons using a Pool table and some balls in 40 secs…..

[The Observer New Review @ObsNewReview]

This Sunday's cover

@TimAdamsWrites talks to the hosts of Parkinson's podcast Movers & Shakers @moversand6 - including Jeremy Paxman, Gillian @LaceySolymar and Rory Cellan-Jones - about challenging attitudes to the condition

📸 @AOlmosPhotos

[Fiona MacKenzie @feef2023]

This is a wonderful rabbit hole to disappear down!

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

What line of poetry would you send someone you *really* love?

[Fiona MacKenzie @feef2023]

@Joseph_Fasano_ All days are nights till I see thee
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me

[Fiona MacKenzie @feef2023]

@arealmofwonder D for the onomatopoeia!

[Fiona MacKenzie @feef2023]

@arealmofwonder I love an arboretum, but B fenkle is a new word for me and it sounds right - like a wrinkle in a river

[Fiona MacKenzie @feef2023]

@arealmofwonder Oof, M. Proust, sounds profound, but that’s wide of the mark

[Fiona MacKenzie @feef2023]

I’ll go for C, and D if everyone promises to adopt it as a welcome immigrant!

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Interesting Words 🌿

Pick your winner. 💫

A B
C D

(Follow for the next batch)

[Fiona MacKenzie @feef2023]

@arealmofwonder I can’t read this without hearing Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel and this version from @Bryn_Terfel in particular https://t.co/zc6loBVlcC

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

'listen' is an anagram for 'silent.'

[Fiona MacKenzie @feef2023]

Everyone - please listen and share and donate! Zillions needed to fund the stopping, reversing and curing of this horrible disease. @CureParkinsonsT @ParkinsonsUK
https://t.co/9z0EZmyL1b We parkies are amazing folk but we could be just as amazing without it.

[Movers & Shakers: a podcast about Parkinson's @moversand6]

https://t.co/QMh2cCsv0k New bonus episode brought to you by half of the Movers and Shakers from World Parkinson’s Congress in Barcelona. Learn about the best diet for ‘Parkies’, why we haven’t ended Parkinson’s and the amazing story of @MattEagles who was diagnosed at 7

[Fiona MacKenzie @feef2023]

My choice was C - with a D for all parkies like #parkieme who have lost their handwriting. I have however managed to cultivate a signature and am now determined to add a wonderful paraph to it! #parkinsons @WorldPDCongress

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Words for the Weekend 🌿

Pick your winner 💫

A B
C D

[Fiona MacKenzie @feef2023]

@arealmofwonder C please - with a paraph!

[Fiona MacKenzie @feef2023]

@rogerandout56 @BrittenPears Such a pleasure this bright Suffolk morning to join the joyous avalanche of well-deserved well-wishing!

[Fiona MacKenzie @feef2023]

@robertgrawson This must be worth a vote!

My thematically related 1, 2 & 3 are those fine works Carpaccio & Salami, followed by Oreo (I appreciate no. 2 is technical inadmissible but …)

[Fiona MacKenzie @feef2023]

@arealmofwonder I love them all but will choose A for its precision and its opaqueness: who was it that needed to invent such a word?

[East Anglian Daily Times @EADT24]

Southwold pier in Suffolk has been named one of the nation's best in a newly-released list by the Sunday Times. https://t.co/lsrpp6vfuv

[Fiona MacKenzie @feef2023]

@Opera_North Simon Keenlyside’s Papageno (and that Duck Hat) in his first scene in David McVicar’s early 2000s ROH Magic Flute - nothing else comes close!

[Fiona MacKenzie @feef2023]

@IMcMillan Nice!!

[Fiona MacKenzie @feef2023]

@arealmofwonder Odd that it should be comforting to be reminded that WW could get it so right when he nails one of #Parkinsons bleakest symptoms and its effects so utterly. Here’s #parkieme’s adaptation:
‘Even thus last night, and every night, I lie
And cannot win thee, Sleep ! by any stealth :