Making Your Own Mask
Finally, nearly five months after lockdown started, I got round to making myself a re-usable fac… Read More
Second childhood
What activities recall your childhood? Freewheeling downhill on your bicycle, perhaps, with your… Read More
Gardening therapy – episode 6
It’s been raining this week. Not light summer showers that send a sprinkling of raindrops to moi… Read More
Crafting for dementia
My Dad has vascular dementia and about a year ago I began to notice that on days when his anxiet… Read More
Gardening therapy – episode 5
As a family carer, you may not get time, or have the space, to keep an allotment, a veg’ plot or… Read More
Gardening therapy – episode 2
Want to know how you can stop slugs and snails from eating your plants? Well, in this, Alison… Read More
Are board games the answer to lockdown boredom?
As well as being an excellent way for family carers to to pass the time with loved ones, board g… Read More
Gardening therapy – beware, here be dragons
Episode 1 Gardening wasn’t a feature of my life when I was younger – I ha… Read More
A new to-do list!
Several weeks ago, just as lockdown was beginning, I ended up spending a day in Accident & E… Read More
From podcasts to virtual cuppas
Caring for a loved one can be incredibly rewarding. However, as all carers will know, it can be … Read More
Knitting saved my life!
I’ve been a knitter for almost as long as I can remember. I can only have been about four o… Read More
Tools for embedding SENCO sensory strategies at home
Following my post on supporting children with sensory processing disorders (such as ADHD, autism… Read More