Hello world! This is the title of the first sample blog the WordPress team leaves on the site of new bloggers. Boring huh? Today, you’d better get used to it ‘cos that’s about all I can find inside my head for my blog, and I’m not feeling like much of a writer at all. Such…
I want my writing, poetry and blogs to improve, to be something more, and I find it so easy to be my own worst critic. This fact can often make it easy to accept feedback more negatively or personally than it is meant. Since travelling, there has not been enough time to think and take…
The scariest moment is always just before you start. (Stephen King) The optimist will always find a way to start, the pessimist will always find a way to put it off. I am inherently an optimist, I see the good in situations and people, and usually quickly find a positive solution to everything that comes…
I have blogged about the use of restraints for people in aged care and/or with dementia, both physical and pharmacological, and how I think it is a crime against our human rights. There is another blog brewing on this, and I still think it is a disgrace but have no idea (yet) how we can change…
Life is really just one big book; you can choose to read it and learn from it, or you can ignore your experience of it. I choose to read life as I live, and find I get so much joy from it, as well as learning so much more than simply being in attendance. I…
Well, I am definitely not overly fat, but underneath my clothes I do show serious signs of middle age, normal for my age, the lack of toning exercises, and the amount I eat. My GP has been suggesting for years I do some cardiac exercise, and simply rolls his eyes when I say, but I…
Today’s blog is about why I produced an Adelaide Fringe event this year, something I thought I should write about before I forget why I registered for it in the first place. It came about through a desire to change attitudes and break down the myths and stigma surrounding dementia, and to improve the services…
Needing to wear thermals or long johns and undercoats is reasonably unusual in Australia, unless you visit the snow, and then the insulation is usually built into the ski clothing, but here in the UK, even though it is Spring, I have needed to wear them. I have felt the need to wear thermals especially…
In all honesty, I have no idea what to blog about (6:45am). My brain is blank today, like a white page, no lines, no squiggles, no pictures, no dashes or dots, nothing much at all at least for now. Because of this, I thought I’d just start free-writing, like the NaNoWriMo writing experience, where it…
Following my last blog, I’ve thought further about blogging, and why I do it. Our young friends asked me yesterday if the movie Julie and Julia had inspired me, and if I intended to publish my blog one day. I have thought about publishing Project 366, especially as now it is a recipe file, and…
Yesterday when we were leaving the conference venue, I felt overwhelmed with sadness about departing, to the point of tears running down my cheeks. We walked through the long hallways holding onto each other, and I wondered why I was feeling so sad. Then I realised why; it was because we had been wrapped in…
As many of you know, we have been attending the Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI)London 2012 Conference. Apart from a few hiccups at the start, and the never-ending hair dryer issues (yes, Sally, I do need to get a new hairstyle that doesn’t need this type of assistance!!), it was a huge success. I feel sure the…
My blog today is a change from the last couple, as I have recovered from my spoilt-attack, as one young son implied!!! Firstly though, I’m happy to say the conference has been worth every negative experience leading up to it including putting up with the accommodation. Of course, I should be 100% grateful we can afford to…
Well, a new day is here, and an email from one young son that commented on my last blog saying, remember it’s London, most of it is shit cramped living, and, maybe you guys are just spoilt for luxury, hahaha :-). I guess there might just be some truth in both those comments, however today did not start off…
One has to ask, is the dementia industry friendly or non-friendly to people with dementia. We arrived at the Conference venue, which is in such a remote place, the taxi driver was lost for over 40 minutes trying to find it, even though he has lived in London for over 23 years. Because the experience is not getting any…
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