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…
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…
My Adelaide Fringe events My Unseen Disappearing World are in progress, two down, two to go as they say. They seem to have gone quite well, and last night we almost had a full house, which was incredibly humbling. There were people there, many who I had never met, many who I have known over the years,…
Amazed… I managed to upgrade from a free blog to my own Domain name, Kate Swaffer earlier this week. It has taken me months to get the nerve to do it, and emails to girlfriends, and to the WordPress Support Team, and at long last, I have paid up and done it! I was terrified all…
26/11/11 – 5.15pm: So, here I am I’m writing for nanowrimo, trying to get to 50,000 words. a novel is something i have always wanted to write and get published. more than one! now the thought is quite scary, as my use of language is so impraied or disabled. remembering the words i’d like to use, the ‘big’…
Carol Burnett once said; Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. It most definitely seems this is true, as almost every blog I write is interpreted differently, often quite differently to the way I meant for to it to be understood. Some people pick up on the funny things; some don’t…
Some of my wonderful blog followers have nominated me for the Versatile Blogger and the Liebster Awards. Unfortunately I can’t find their blogs or replies on my blog to confirm them, thank them, or work out how to add them to my blog!! However I would like to salute a few of the blogs I like…
This blog is dedicated to my other ‘sons’! As my children have grown up, through my food business, and since blogging, I have a few more ‘sons’. One young man who ‘adopted’ us as his real family some years ago (he had school holidays with us a lot); he brought up the self designed ‘paperwork…
I am feeling the emotional burden of having people I love locked up in the human cattle yards for dementia and aged care. One friend is as many of you know quite young. If I was well, there is no way I would be able to have any of them live with us, not even one of…
Unfortunately real memory loss caused by something like dementia is not selective, and is not simple age related forgetfulness. It is a damned shame we can’t pick and choose which memories we lose; my husband would like me to forget the things he does that annoy me(of course, I occasionally let him know about them!!). Someone from New…
When I realised I had set myself up to write two blogs per day for 366 days, it was difficult to imagine what I would write about for each one, and I also wondered how on earth I would find enough to write about. The Daily blog continues to be my more serious thinking and writing…
My blog today, partly meant specifically for my wonderful blog followers is to offer an explanation of why I am not actively following everyone’s blogs. Whilst I wonder over to your blogs and love reading them, getting emails from too many bloggers is just too challenging for me to keep up with. I have also signed up to actively follow…
Okay, so it is Day 3 of Project 366: Conversations with Kate (and her blog followers!). I’ve just posted a daily blog, but have since realised I’ve actually set myself up to write a second post here, so that we can actually have a real conversation! For now, tonight, all I have left in my…
The old Discussion Forum page has this lovely new title Conversations, and is for you to leave your responses to any of my posts, or for something you just want to chat about. As I have grown used to this blog thing, having your responses appear there, rather than with the relevant blog has now become a…
Yep, that’s me. Not one person took up the 366 day challenge to blog with me, and then publish it as a book, so if it is to be, it is up to me… writing, all alone, to keep up with my goal of writing daily blogs. I might find innovative ways to get some of you…
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