36. Keep calm and carry on

Wild Card - Whose Shoes?

70 years of continuity

How often does that happen in the modern age?

Or ever really?

You don’t need me to tell you it has been the most extraordinary week, so I wanted to take a bit of time to put a marker in the sand, before it too slips away.
Going off piste from my normal theme of healthcare improvement, to share a few thoughts about the death of the Queen, my Mum, the war, and how it has all affected me personally.
I hope it resonates with you – I would love to hear what your own thoughts and experiences have been, particularly perhaps how these might be different for people of different age groups.

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• Rest in peace, Your Majesty. You have done more than anyone could have expected of you
• I will raise a glass of Prosecco to you and my Mum – you both deserve it!
• I hope Mum and the Queen are raising a glass of Prosecco together now - #NoHierarchyJustPeople
• It's important to learn about our past so that we don't keep repeating the same mistakes
• Value older people and all the wisdom and experience they have to share
• Look out for the delayed social media coverage of our #MatExp Whose Shoes workshop in Oxford
• Keep calm and carry on – and think how we can each follow the Queen's extraordinary example

Links

Episode 24 - ‘Mum’s 100th birthday’

In the shoes of Gill's Mum

A life well lived
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Chapters

1. 36. Keep calm and carry on (00:00:00)

2. An extraordinary week - capture it before it slips away. The end of an era. (00:00:45)

3. Privileged? (00:02:03)

4. 70 years of change (00:02:43)

5. The birth of television (00:03:40)

6. Continuity (00:04:08)

7. Proud to be British … on a good day (00:04:56)

8. Emergency planning ... pre-digital (00:05:20)

9. It’s all we have ever known (00:06:46)

10. Planning for succession (00:07:17)

11. “Approved … Approved (00:07:35)

12. The age of social media (00:08:21)

13. A moment in time. Where were you? (00:09:19)

14. I was in Oxford with #FabObs Flo (00:09:57)

15. What to DO? (00:11:32)

16. #MatExp Whose Shoes comes to Oxford (00:11:57)

17. No tweeting … for now (00:12:42)

18. Reflections (00:13:18)

19. The death of Winston Churchill (00:13:52)

20. "Is it right that children think Churchill is a dog?" (00:14:26)

21. Valuing older people (00:16:31)

22. Winning the World Cup, 1966 (00:17:06)

23. Assassination of the Kennedys (00:17:56)

24. Rainbows - and stuff we don’t understand (00:18:35)

25. My mum was so like the Queen (00:19:22)

26. Love and lemons … and Paddington Bear (00:20:11)

27. The war generation - putting others first (00:20:45)

28. A good death (00:22:05)

29. Legacy - how can WE make a difference? (00:22:48)

30. Etiquette. To tweet or not to tweet? (00:23:20)

31. Cancel, or show your respects and carry on?? (00:24:07)

32. Keep calm and carry on? Mum took it to extremes, as they did in those days, when her fiancé died (00:24:58)

33. Getting my head round the shenanigans of the last two years (00:25:41)

34. We look forward to sharing the full story of the Oxford maternity workshop (00:26:12)

35. Self imposed Twitter purdah ... I'm back! :) (00:27:15)

36. Lemon lightbulbs! Cheers! #ProseccoGate (00:27:44)