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IMAGINE
Tia visits the IMAGINE hut during Festespillene, May 2025….. Kreativitetskuber for store og små. Photo: https://www.fib.no/no/program/2025/lekoteket We are in Bergen, during the Festespillene, on Festival Square. Lekoteket, or the Festival “Toy Store”: Fire store installasjoner blir det lekende hjertet av hele byens festallmenning. Gulv, vegger og tak fylles med små og store spill, labyrinter og…
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Last(ing) Music
Wolfgang Schmid and Jill Halstead’s film – on music at end of life In the last week of May, Tia was in Bergen. For meetings. It has been busy. The Sounding Relation Team, in the person of Eva Marija Vukich and Maren Metell. There is work ongoing with Viggo Krüger (writing together, an article on…
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Walking the Wight: Together
“Dad always used to say you never know when somebody you know is going to need the hospice or yourself.” – Jo Smith, speaking of her father Bill Bradley, Co-Founder (with Frank Stevens) of Walk the Wight May 12, 2024, the annual Mountbatten charity event, Walk the Wight, recently awarded the Island’s “Top Event…
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Happy Anniversary Oscar!
Oscar is the Mountbatten Hospice Cat. A fluffy, six-year-old ginger, Oscar moved in to Mountbatten one year ago. Originally, he lived with Communications Head, Matthew White’s family. But the Whites have a dog and… Oscar had a bone to pick with the dog and things were not going smoothly. Here at Mountbatten, Oscar is happy…
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December Time
at Mountbatten, the idea of ‘concert’ and social virtuosity Tia was at Mountbatten three weeks prior to the winter Solstice. These are the darkest days of the year. They are connected, in many faiths, with festivals of light and fire. Last week, the first week of Advent, Mountbatten was ablaze with lights…. Outside, the tree…
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Secret Art
The hidden gems of Mountbatten The Island climate is conducive to things like cork oak trees, olive trees, pomegranate trees. You can find all of these in the gardens at Mountbatten. In season, you will find rare Bee Orchids. The decking, which is wheelchair friendly, allows you to move through the different parts of Mountbatten’s garden, from…
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Food of Love
Days in the life of the Mountbatten Café During her last visit to Mountbatten Tia spent a few days in the Mountbatten café. When she arrived, at opening time on Monday, Jackie, the Café Manager, was at a corner table, diary open in front of her. Jackie was working out the complex weekly schedule for…
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The Flames of Kindness
Organisational Symbolism at Mountbatten Spring. In many religions the renewal and rebirth of this time of year is celebrated. When Wolfgang, Gary and Tia arrived this time at Mountbatten, CEO Nigel Hartley took us on a tour, to show Wolfgang around and to show Tia and Gary what was new. We began in the multi-faith…
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At Gregynog on the first day of spring…
How might trying to be creative help to address loss? 1991. Tia was a University of Wales Fellow at Cardiff University. Among other things she got involved in the Women’s Studies MSc program. It was there that she supervised her first-ever Masters dissertations, including a beautiful study, entitled, Living and Dying with Breast Cancer. Andrea, who…
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The social lives of musical instruments
a biography of the Mountbatten drum kit When Tia met with Fraser Simpson at Mountbatten last month, they were surrounded by musical instruments in the music room. They got to talking about some special instruments that have been donated to the hospice, such as the Moody Blues piano. Fraser pointed to the drum kit in the…
Island Life and Death 