Some pics at last!!!
Penny arrives at work on her first day and sees my office......here is the pin-up board:
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She looks out the window (hospitals cannot afford to get their windows cleaned any more)
Penny met my office cats:
She thought my desk VERY untidy (and she is correct):
She met some strange people on my filing cabinets, but soon felt at home:
Though I DID have to tell her that this is a GOOD witch!!!
Penny enjoyed making her posts from my office computer:
and sharing lunch with the team:
She thought the lunch room had a great view:
Penny travelled across the road with me to where we see clients.
and saw the waiting room:
And met some of my team (the non-human ones...the human ones are very shy of photos)
I told her how the team help:
"Some of the team members Deb works with look scary.
There's a huge wolf, and a tyrannosaurus rex, and a big crocodile, and some tigers and stuff.....but they are all very friendly and nice.
Lots of them are puppets, like me, so I felt really at home.
Deb says some of them help kids she sees feel safe and comfortable (cos lots of the kids are sad and scared because they have been hurt), and some of them help kids to talk about how they feel.
The big mean-looking ones help kids who feel very angry......so then they pretend to be mean as long as the kid needs them to."
Some are NOT so scary!!!
"I met one of the lovely baby dolls Deb uses when she is helping parents and children get very close and loving again, when something has happened that made them not be as close and happy as they want to be.
She does work with them with a funny long name.....it is called Parallel Parent Child Narrative, and it means that the parent and the child talk about their lives together from even before the child was born!!! Lots of the talk is about when the child was a little baby, and the baby dolls really help children to think about how they felt as babies."
"I saw a HUGE room where kids come to draw and paint and use play to help them feel better.......it is a very lovely room, full of great things to do.
Deb could only photograph parts of the room because the walls were covered with paintings and things the children had made while they got better, and I can't show any of the children who come, or stuff they have made, because everything that happens here is very private and safe."
I took Penny to the park opposite near my office:
We went to Norwood ( a very old and beloved near city suburb) to pick up the phone cable, and Penny saw the Norwood Town Hall:
We saw an interesting art installation. I think it is about how crash test dunmmies died for us:
I'm pooped!!!
More another time.
Grrr...just realised I should have posted the big versioons.
Here is one:
You can go here and click on 'em:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=273325710&albumId=0
