Everyone’s felt lonely, but losing someone you love brings a different kind of loneliness. One where you feel so low and empty that you can hardly remember what happiness feels like. There seems to be a dark cloud above you and you feel so numb as you try to come to terms with that person’s […]
A week in the life of our new fast paced world… driving to work, utilising technology and gadgets to do more and more in less and less time… coming home every night to my most amazing husband and cooking a meal together and walking the dogs together then cuddling on the sofa together, to be […]
In 1944 Eileen Nearne worked for the British Secret Service. She was a spy during WW2 and was captured by the SS and Gestapo. She escaped with two young French women also spying for their country. At the age of 89, this adventurer of derring-do, this woman who risked her life for queen and country, […]
The truth about elderly loneliness Shockingly, there are 1.2 million chronically lonely older people in the UK, and half a million older people go at least five or six days a week without seeing or speaking to anyone at all (Age UK 2016, No-one should have no one). There are over 2.2 million people aged […]
It’s been nearly a year since we started The Chatty Café Scheme and it is fair to say a lot has happened. The Government have appointed a Minister for loneliness on the back of the Jo Cox Commission but its still early days so it will be interesting to see what comes of that. We […]
A lot has happened since the last blog; a wedding for which the sun shone, the end of life for a little ray of sunshine and so much more which feels so insignificant when there is a death. But yet out of sadness can come the opportunity to do something that matters and so maybe […]
Have you ever considered the joy of conversation? Even a small exchange of words ‘morning how’s your day going?’ what a difference that can make to how you feel and how your day will go. Imagine a day with no exchange of words – some days we might long for this, (a bit of peace […]
So its nearly the end of the year; a year that has changed my life in more ways than one. In January I got engaged and in just a few weeks there will be a wedding. Its been the year that a baby has turned into a little boy and we are finally moving our […]
As the title says we’ve got a lot to update you on and we are pleased to say that its all good 🙂 Tameside Council has given us some immense coverage by telling Council and health staff all about us and they have also sent out information to residents. Oldham Council has also been fantastic, putting […]
Last weekend I was in Windsor; a city full of history, beautiful buildings and full of tourists admiring the castle and watching the changing of the guards. There was lots to see and take in but the resounding memory that I find myself reflecting on over and over is that of homelessness. Walking up the […]