Chequered

Brain and spinal injury centre, Salford 26th June 2018 two friends locked in a meeting of minds heads of two mighty armies engaging in rank from rook through to queen keeping an eye over each army is the ruler of the of the land at either end night facing off against day in a battle …

Memory

Salford, Tuesday 15th May Since my last episode with my IV shunt, I’ve become more appreciative of what makes a memory the smell of cooking of an apple pie in the oven the sound of my favourite music 🎶 on the wireless the feel of my iwm fleece, that I wear when volunteering All these things …

Learning the Harmonica

  Strike a Chord On my bookshelf sits, a steel covered Harmonica. Here it is.  Sat in front of my Discworld paperbacks.  It isn’t that old, only a few Christmas’s have passed as I’ve worked my way through the various notes it plays. Its more of a blues instrument as the notes play over a …

A-Maze-Ing

This weeks session @ BASICs Memory Workshop focused on Attention and Concentration As part of the session, we were given two maze puzzles to do.  Now, the aim wasn’t to complete the puzzles – more to concentrate on doing them and maintaining the focus of going round the mazes. As we did the mazes, we …