Author: inspiredinyork

i am a christian, mum and wife, and assistant curate working in the Church of England

A century of memories

A consultant psychiatrist I worked with as a social worker with people with dementia described memories like leaves and branches on a tree, when you are younger you are putting down roots, building up reserves, and starting out fresh shoots, as you get older you establish core branches and reach higher up. In old age […]

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True Intimacy

I’m really loving this song by the Rend Collective at the moment, it’s really soothing. The other day at work, I heard it flash through my mind in the middle of a heated email discussion about work priorities and deadlines, and it made me feel like that I’d come up for air and swallowed some […]

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Hidden treasure

Until today, I have been feeling pretty depressed.  The summer holidays are stretching ahead full of exciting fun things to do, and I’m going to be at work when I could be out there creating “memories” with my kids. The number of different activities they could enjoy just seems endless. Today I had a day off, […]

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Bye, bye June

I love June, it’s such a lovely time of year, with the long evenings, and flowers blooming. It’s the month I got married, and some of my favourite people have birthdays this time of year. When I was at school it was when we’d normally finished exams and hadn’t got the results, and when we […]

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It’s Magic

I seem to watch alot of kids TV programmes at the moment, and most of the time it’s quite unrealistic, so Bob the builder always gets work done on time, Postman Pat hasn’t faced any disciplinary hearings despite his inability to get the post delivered to the right place on time, and despite the Wise […]

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Young at Heart

Many thanks Becky… I’ve voted!DC David Casswell 01904 655071 office: 628552 cliftonparish.org.uk On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Becky Allright <becky.allright> wrote: Hi, we’ve been shortlisted for some funding for iPads and support to get people online through the Young at Heart clubs. Please can you advertise this through your networks and ask […]

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Shine a light

I was an au pair in Germany in 1991 and found it challenging at first, as the lady I worked for had a system where she washed the same colours together, so if I had a yellow top it could be some time before I got to wear it again. After a while I explained […]

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