Life Story Work and Dementia
I was recently offered a spotlight to present my business, ‘The Memory Shed’ at a local networking group I attend, in Buckingham, That Networking. I shared how I came to write my father’s life story and that reading the notes of his childhood to him in hospital became a great source of comfort when he […]
Pectus and Me – A Year On
It was on this very Thursday, a year ago that something remarkable happened. One hundred copies of the book ‘Pectus and Me’ were shared with clinicians, the media, the head of NHS commissioning and importantly pectus patients and their families at a “Pectus Best Practice Event” held at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. […]
The Art of Remembering through Words and Paint
There is something reassuring and deeply comforting about capturing a person’s life in words and pictures. It is best done with the involvement of the Storyteller themselves – telling their story, in their own words, sharing their reflections and perspective on what has gone before them. This is what we do at The Memory Shed. […]
The Power of a Book and a Collective Voice
Until two years ago, I had never heard of the conditions of pectus excavatum and pectus carinatum. They are peculiar conditions whereby a person’s sternum either sinks inwards (excavatum) or grows outwards like a pigeon’s chest (carinatum). It had completely slipped my mind that when interviewing my father for his own life story a […]
Sheds are Special Places
My first encounter with a shed would have been the rickety structure that stood like a crooked old man in the corner of my grandparents’ backyard. It was a place of intrigue for a four year old. Tainted with a musty smell that was the by-product of rusty old tins full of diesel oil, paint, […]
Hear the Joy in Life
I first noticed early hearing loss in 2019. Conversations were becoming more muffled. I caught myself asking people to repeat themselves. The kids noticed that I wouldn’t join in family film nights as often, choosing instead to read a paper in the same room or scroll on my phone. This was easier than straining to […]
