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Colin Pidgeon
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Bad poet, worse painter. Fiscal nerd. Advocate for #LongCovidKids

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A wheelchair that says 'dirty looks directed here' on it
November 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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My daughter's series of Wet Floor Sign images continue

Stare

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@disabilityaction.bsky.social

#disabledartists
A wheelchair mocked up to look like a wet floor sign says "stare" on it
November 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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My daughter Lily is doing a painting of me and her from a Christmas past.

We both look so happy; our story isn't over.

I think I have something in my eye
#daughter #youngartist #mentalhealth #semicolonmovement
A partially completed painting of a young girl and her dad wearing paper hats from a Christmas cracker A photo of a dad with his little girl. They both look very happy;their story isn't over
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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MOT passed. Two more years, and Betsy is officially a classic car, and becomes exempt from road tax and MOT inspections.

#2CV #chevaux #tinsnail
A plum and custard Citroen 2CV on a vehicle inspection ramp
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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My great grandmother, Kate (Kitty) Lyons.

Great photo courtesy of a cousin via ancestry.
A woman in black seated by a desk. She has on a wide-brimmed hat and is in front of a window
November 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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It's hard to believe from this photo of Rosie showing off her trophy, that she won this competition with a broken third metatarsal!
A young Irish dancer showing off her trophy
November 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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#last100daysof2025poetry
Prompt for 23 October: coming of age

"Wisdom comes with age" by Thijs Paanakker is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
Picture of an elderly made walking by the road using a stick: One minute you're young The next you're at the roadside Wondering why You are only wearing your pants
October 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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What do you do when your ignorant able-bodied fellow students won't make room for you in the disabled priority lift?

Rosie fights back the only way she knows how.
A wheelchair mocked up like a wet floor sign. It reads Caution Wheelchair User. Stand in the full lift and pretend there aren't there.
October 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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A blast from the past. I do love a wee #haiku even though I don't write proper ones.

This is from #last100daysof2023poetry
A picture of haggis mashed potato and swede with a haiku that reads: With this national dish No wonder the Scots die young And take so much smack
October 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Today's #poem for #last100daysof2025poetry is in response to the prompt 'in the waiting room'. It is dedicated to the current failure of #publichealth #covidisairborne
A poster about nosocomial infection with a haiku that reads: In the waiting room Nosocomial gifting Brought me to my grave
October 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Today's flashback #haiku is a #poem from a couple of years back.

I am proud of this one; it is one of my better efforts.
A smiling young woman with the text with the first two lines of a haiku: Whenever you smile The world happily smiles back A second picture of a girl (my daughter Rosie) sitting in her wheelchair on the beach, watching the sun set over the sea. We tried to join the rest of the family on a walk across the beach. But I could not drag the wheelchair across the sand. So we watched the waves wash away the tracks in the sand as the sun dropped to the horizon. The third line of the haiku reads It hates your sickness
October 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Rosie's piece Prisoner of my Heartrate (a digital rendering of her actual ribcage and ❤️) made it to the @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social today in support of Sammie and @longcovidkids.bsky.social .
A group of Long COVID Kids supporters outside the inquiry building holding a banner and placards
October 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Today's prompt for #last100daysof2025poetry
is 'maritime'.

Here's my effort. The #poem is best enjoyed if you also listen to MC Hammer's I Can't Touch This as you read
#youcanttouchthis
#hammertime
An image of the Basque Goddess Mari, overlaid with a poem that reads: Maritime Like Hammertime But for a Basque Goddess Not a strange man In extraordinary trousers
September 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Day 1: off prompt. In memory of the legend Dickie Bird
September 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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#last100daysof2025poetry
Day 2: heritage day
September 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Betsy goes to work...
A Citroen 2CV in an office car park with the sun rising behind
September 22, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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From my morning to yours...
Morning sunshine through a castle window, overlooking a lake. The Mountains of Mourne are in the distance.
September 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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A cartoon pigeon held by some weird disembodied blue hands. Text reads,"it may look like nothing to the world, but to a pigeon in need, your kindness means everything"
September 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Rosie challenged visitors to contribute to Rona Lisa 2 by thinking of kind things they could say to people with #longcovid #mecfs. They were invited tonwrit on post its and add them to the piece.
September 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Walkthrough of the #WeAreStillHere exhibition that opened yesterday.
September 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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A piece from my daughter's exhibition #WeAreStillHere
with a short #poem of my own. I will finish it some time, but this is about all I have at the moment...

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A painting of an Irish dancing costume and a pair of heavy shoes, on a canvas made from the insert from Rosie Pidgeon's medication boxes. A poem reads: She yearns for the reels and the jigs from before But she's along in her room and she dances no more
September 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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#WeAreStillHere
#LongCovidKids
September 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Good as they were, they were still upstaged by the LCK Choir's performance of Rollercoaster
September 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Stunning performance by NI Stars at the @longcovidkids.bsky.social exhibition #WeAreStillHere opening today.
September 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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#WeAreStillHere, a new exhibition curated by Rosie and supported by @LongCovidKids .
The work has all been hung. Opening next week!
A photo of a gallery wall with several pictures in the distance. In the foreground is a painting of some Irish dancing heavy shoes on a canvas covered with the leaflets from prescription medicines.
September 5, 2025 at 5:56 AM