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Joe Kelly is a writer and campaigner around mental health issues.

Reflections on return from Kampala

8 April 2009

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The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things. Of shoes and shipping and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings and why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings - Lewis Carroll I arrived back from Africa on Sunday morning at 6am. Heathrow Terminal 4. Took a bus to Southall and then home. I had no electricity, no gas, and I had to wait for four hours while the gas man put a new battery in my Quantum meter. It's a bit of a come down from my adventures in Africa. At present my...

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To and Fro

8 April 2009

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Dear Blog The pleasant aspect of the conference is that we are in a warm tropical location, meeting lots of new interesting people and we are focussing of mental health advocacy, but advantages can be disadvantages and likewise one can get stressed and tense and out of sorts. As we get into the conference certain personalities seem to lead. There is no doubt that WNUSP attracts some of the best minds in userdom: Moosa Salie fought apartheid in South Africa; Tina Minkowitz, a feminist and lawyer...

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