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10 Phonebox Magazine | August 2025Reaff rs%u2019 Le%u001a ersCobbs Garden Surgery Patient Participation Group (PPG)Dear SirThe Practice Patient Participation Group (PPG) is a group of volunteer patients. The PPG meets regularly to discuss the services off ered at the surgery and how improvements can be made for the benefi t of patients and the Practice.To inform our work, we would like to canvass the views of as many patients as possible via a questionnaire that is available online and can be accessed via this link https://forms.microsoft.com/e/3p9P8YfuZX.A link will also be on the PPG Facebook page and the Olney Noticeboard Facebook page.I would encourage as many people as possible to complete the survey and help the PPG to work with the Practice to develop and improve its services to patients.The questionnaire is completely confi dential, and the PPG will publish the results in due course. Thank you.Tony LammingVice Chair Cobbs Garden PPGYardley Manor on the right track ... at lastDear SirWalking at the weekend in the Yardley Manor area. Was delighted to see a path out towards the fi elds at the back on the development, and a BMX bike track, both laid and available for use. I took a picture of them.I haven%u2019t been out that way for a while %u2013 although it can be a nice walk %u2013 and it was good to see the work promised by the developer, actually fi nished. I know there have been some delays at that development and I know there is still some work to be done but, credit where it%u2019s due, the bike track and walkers%u2019 path were quite good.I look forward to seeing more works on that site in the coming months because Yardley Manor is an attractive development and deserves to stay that way.Mandy HillaryPhotographer %u2018dares%u2019 people to look at new exhibitionSelf-taught camerawoman%u2019s premier UK display comes to Milton Keynes.Milton Keynes%u2019 popular MK Gallery is the first in the UK to present a major exhibition dedicated to Chilean photographer Paz Err%u00e1zuriz.One of Latin America%u2019s m o s t i m p o r t a n t d o c u m e n t a r y photographers, Errazuriz has built a vast display of uncompromising work that challenges social norms and political orthodoxies. This landmark exhibition at the Midsummer Boulevard gallery features 171 photographs, offering visitors a unique insight into Chilean society during a period of profound historical change. The expo, called %u2018Dare to Look%u2019, includes many of the photographer%u2019s landmark series, including La Manzana de Ad%u00e1n (Adam%u2019s Apple), which portrays the lives of Chilean lesbian, gay and bisexual people, sex workers in the 1980s, and Antesala de un Desndo (Antechamber of a Nude). This haunting series captures the conditions of psychiatric patients in long-term care.The self-taught photographer trained as a teacher but had to leave her job following General Pinochet%u2019s takeover of Chile. That was when she decided to %u2018pick up a camera%u2019.%u201cI am impressed and honoured to be in this gallery,%u201d said Errazuriz, who has travelled to Milton Keynes to see her exhibition in person, which curator Victoria del Val Hernandez organised.%u201cWe are thrilled to be working with Paz Errazuriz on this survey of her extraordinary career,%u201d said Anthony Spira, director of MK Gallery. %u201cWith its focus on communities whose voices are rarely heard, the artists%u2019 work engages with pressing social circumstances that have never been more resonant than today, when the world is as crazy as it is.%u201dPaz Errazuriz: Dare to Look is at MK Gallery from Saturday, 19th July until Sunday, 5th October.