Claire – Iain Douglas Stewart

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 29th May 2020

By Iain 29 May 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we are looking at limits of proficiency, and my reflections on them. There are many ethical considerations to take into account when considering your own limits of proficiency. The type of client is one, for example, as a child would require a different approach to an adult seeking therapy. Personally, I would like to gain experience with as…

Self-isolation, quarantine, whatever this limbo is; week seven

By Iain 6 May 2020Creativity, Physicality, Reflections, Site Related, The MissionNo Comments

Time is strange at the moment. It goes fast, but feels slow. Days take ages, but are over before you know it. This strange coronavirus limbo is warping things. It's so quiet outside, it's unreal. Eerie. Spooky. It feels like the entire world has been paused. I didn't get a rowing machine in the end, I'm ashamed to say the…

Self-isolation, week four

By Iain 14 April 2020Internet, Music, Reflections, The MissionNo Comments

It reminds me of when I was unemployed, having all this free time. But it's weird - instead of bumming around playing videogames all day and moderating meaningless internet forums, this time I am spending my time improving my situation. I asked Twitter when the lockdown first started if this crisis brought anyone's mortality into sharp focus. It did mine.…

The “Lewis becoming an adult” thing

By Iain 6 February 2020Reflections, Site Related, The Mission, VideogamesNo Comments

This is going to be hard to write without sounding jaded, or bitter, but I'm going to try. My nephew, Lewis, turned 18 recently. He's Jane's sister's first-born, and I've known him all his life. I don't know where to start with how I feel about my perspective on all this, so forgive me if it seems disjointed. So, as…

About the old me

By Iain 4 September 2018Internet, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

Hey. My old blog, Waves, is gone. Here are the old “About Me” pages. They are no longer relevant to me, my mission or my desires.

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 24th January 2018

By Iain 24 January 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we were asked to explore and reflect on a couple of thought exercises relating to our self-awareness. One was to think about a time you were not helped by someone from whom you expected help from. For me, this would be a couple of years ago when I thought I had some kind of physical problem in my…

Gizmo. We let him down.

By Iain 4 September 2015ReflectionsNo Comments

He died one year ago today. He was an awesome cat.

In the end, we let him down. We never realised how bad his breathing had got. We took him to the vets on a Monday, he had a blood test and had antibiotics on the Wednesday. When they had little to no effect and he got worse, we were scheduled to take him to the vets, we were the last appointment of the day, so he could be kept in overnight if need be.

Friday update 29/8/14

By Iain 29 August 2014Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

So ready for Flipper to appear now. I just can't wait to meet the little guy/gal - and I can't wait for Jane to be able to rest properly again. It's not that she's been miserable or grumpy because of the baby cramping her style - I just feel it's been long enough now, she deserves her body back. Two…

Friday update 22/8/14

By Iain 22 August 2014Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

It's been yet another quick week. Little baby Stewart is due in three weeks if you can believe that - we're hoping that he or she comes a bit sooner than that because now is an ideal time, what with Claire and the kids being away. It would just be a quieter, more relaxed atmosphere for us to introduce the…

Musings

By Iain 19 July 2014Internet, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

I'm just sitting here on a sunny Saturday afternoon, at the PC with a green tea and a couple of biscuits, editing the next series of Sonic games (Sonic 2, for those of you who care), thinking to myself that I've not really written anything that wasn't a Friday update on here in a while. I started doing Friday updates…