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"Dementia crept up behind me in its carpet slippers & grabbed me round the waist..."
As Peter often says, he builds castles from the rubble of his dementia and this support group, in its embryonic stages perhaps, is...
Deb Bunt
Dec 16, 20222 min read
Making More Connections
Thank you to Suffolk Association of Independent Care Providers (SAICP) for organising our talk today at their Needham Market offices. ...
Deb Bunt
Dec 12, 20221 min read
Waterstone's Mark II
A bit like the legendary Suffolk bus, you wait for ages and then two trundle along virtually together. Having waited for so long for our...
Deb Bunt
Dec 10, 20221 min read
Destination: Waterstone's
The pictures say it all! Here we are at Waterstone's in Martlesham with store manager, Grace. After the holiday period, Grace is hoping...
Deb Bunt
Dec 8, 20221 min read
All aboard the (Online) Express
Whilst I must confess, it came as a surprise to be see this article in the Express Online, once I had regained my wayward equilibrium I...
Deb Bunt
Dec 8, 20221 min read
Memories Are Golden, Suffolk is a big county!
Being an incomer to Suffolk, I often don't appreciate the size of the county. So, when a Suffolk based organisation (Memories are...
Deb Bunt
Dec 3, 20221 min read
Diss and Dat
One of the wonderful things about living in Suffolk is establishing links and networks with people and this was amply demonstrated when...
Deb Bunt
Nov 28, 20221 min read
Diss Book Signing
Thanks to disspublishing.co.uk for hosting us today. After being met by a photographer from the Diss Express Newspaper (for an article...
Deb Bunt
Nov 19, 20221 min read
New Support Group in Saxmundham
A huge thanks to Liz Gleave at Saxmundham Library for initiating and hosting the first new dementia support group yesterday. Liz, Peter,...
Deb Bunt
Nov 19, 20221 min read
All the way from Hong Kong!
Thank you, Deborah Kan, for this article in your recent newsletter "Being Patient", penned in Hong Kong but arriving in the UK via a...
Deb Bunt
Nov 8, 20221 min read
Sudbury Library Talk
It seemed eons ago when Rachel Taylor, Sudbury's library manager, and I chatted about the possibility of Peter delivering a talk at the...
Deb Bunt
Nov 3, 20221 min read
LIVE on Facebook with Dementia Carers Count
A quick thank you to those at Dementia Carers Count for inviting Peter and me to chat live as part of their 'lunch and listen' initiative...
Deb Bunt
Oct 27, 20221 min read
Preview of some upcoming events
Following the SAICP – Suffolk Association of Independent Care Providers conference last week, Peter and I have been asked to run some...
Deb Bunt
Oct 18, 20221 min read
Thank you to Tesco for joining the Berry bandwagon!
As Peter wisely observed in Slow Puncture - "it's not the destination that matters, it's the journey..." and I believe that our...
Deb Bunt
Oct 14, 20221 min read
Woodbridge Book Signing
A huge thank you to Susie, the new owner at Woodbridge Books, for hosting us on #Nationalbookshopday. As you can see, we arrived in...
Deb Bunt
Oct 10, 20221 min read
A-Conferencing We Shall Go...
Some months ago, Peter was invited to be one of the speakers at the conference hosted by SAICP – Suffolk Association of Independent Care...
Deb Bunt
Oct 7, 20221 min read
A busy Wednesday in the Berry world
This morning, Peter participated in a zoom meeting with the North-West regional team of SOLLA (Society of Later Life Advisers). This is...
Deb Bunt
Oct 5, 20221 min read
"To unpathed waters, undreamed shores” - well, to Norfolk
We discovered that South Norfolk is not "some impossibly remote and dangerous part of the world" as Shakespeare might have said had he...
Deb Bunt
Oct 1, 20221 min read
Back to school
Peter was invited to speak to the children at Snape Primary school about the penny farthing bike. This was part of their syllabus on the...
Deb Bunt
Oct 1, 20221 min read
"A challenge isn't a challenge if it's not challenging."
disclaimer: this is not Peter, and any resemblance is purely coincidental. Today marked the first day of Peter's new challenge: to learn...
Deb Bunt
Sep 23, 20221 min read
Cycling has become my salvation; my very heartbeat has become a turn of the pedals in my mind. You can only pedal forwards not backwards, that’s the important bit.
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