Home Comfort
I really craved a baked potato today and, while they don't have big potatoes in this country, I managed to find a substitute. One of the family diners - Jonathans - sells them. They're pretty small, but it filled a widening gap.
No sign of tuna mayo though, instead they opted for cod roe. These things I'll never understand.
Next to my Shakeaway, maybe I should open a takeaway jacket potato stall; beans, cheese, tuna mayo. Sweet dreams....
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Memories are made of this...
By Joanna Codd
to see the picture go to bmth evening echo site june 8th or 12th
BACK IN TIME: Shirley Sherman with resident Stella Novick in the 1930s-style reminiscence room at Hannah Levy House in Westbourne
VOLUNTARY fundraiser Shirley Sherman never realised that winning a National Lottery grant on behalf of an elderly care home in Bournemouth would change her life.
Part of the award was to create a reminiscence room to help stimulate residents' memories at Hannah Levy House in Poole Road, Westbourne.
"The trustees didn't quite have the vision I had described in my grant application. They could only see a room with artefacts.
"I wanted to create something warm and comforting, somewhere the residents could retire to and receive visitors, rather than sitting in the TV room," she said.
She combed local charity shops and transformed the room into a homely space containing old pictures, a fireplace, a display cabinet stuffed with old-fashioned ornaments, a wind-up gramophone, books, games, toys and drawers-full of artefacts such as old mincers, bristle shaving brushes and shaving mugs, and replica ration books.
Only the wallpaper and chairs were bought new.
advertisement"I fulfilled my dream. It's not a drab room, but it conveys you back to yesteryear," said Shirley.
"It's exactly as I envisaged."
While researching the décor, she visited a museum in London, where she picked up a leaflet about training as a reminiscence worker.
She is now signed up for a short course learning about reminiscence work and how it can help people with dementia.
She also picked up a leaflet about the Ransackers project, which provides opportunities for people of 55-plus who have never been through further education to study at university for a term. Now in her 70s, Shirley left school at 15 with no qualifications to look after her mother, who was seriously ill.
"I thought it was out of my reach, but I was encouraged by my friends to fill out a form."
To her surprise, she was offered a place at Ruskin College, Oxford, this September, where she will study the benefits of reminiscing, particularly in care homes.
"My mother has just turned 100. She has been in a home in London for 10 years and has been very well. The only thing that has deteriorated is her mind. She doesn't have Alzheimer's, it's just lack of stimulation," said Shirley.
"I want to help all the residents, even the most frail.
"Even if they can't get to the room, I will be able to talk to them in a more knowledgeable and skilful way."
7:00pm Friday 8th June 2007
Thank you!!
The picture is here
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