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🎈🎈🎈Happy birthday, Dad!🎈🎈🎈
Not quite what we had planned, but a damn good cake (my offer to make a chocolate poo was passed over 🤷🏼♀️), connecting all of us through the powers of technology and most of us in person too. 💜
New Digs
It’s been just over a month since I last wrote here, but it feels more like a year. How else can so much have happened? the big thing though, is this: Mum has new digs. She now lives in a … Continue reading
‘Our Place’; an alternative reality
I used to think dementia was very much about people forgetting. Words, places, people and more. We realised a good while back that for Mum it’s also about some sort of alternative reality that is based on nothing other than … Continue reading
Reflections
It turns out that there is so much about demential that you don’t know you don’t know. Like that moment when your Mum doesn’t seem to recognise her own reflection. We’d been looking at videos and photos and I realised … Continue reading
The ‘it was Harrods!’ Tuesday
This Tuesday was slightly more chaotic than usual; unpacking after Tescos I discovered that Mum and Dads freezer had at some point started to defrost, then refrozen. It took a while, two knives and a bucket to get the excess … Continue reading