How did it start?
In 2024 my mum was diagnosed with Alzheimers Disease. It's a hateful condition that has been stealing her a little bit further from me every day but more on that later. It was mum and Nanny Checky (mums mum) as I called her ignited my love of reading. There was always time for a story. My Twinkle comic came weekly every Thursday and I clambered on to my nans knee after lunch and we disappeared for a while into the land of Nurse Nancy, Sam and Shona McGregor not forgetting My Little Brother. For that hour or so nothing else mattered I was lost in their world. My nanny and me Books became my ultimate escape from the world whether I read myself or through bedtime stories that few moments at the end of the day. I travelled to Narnia climbed Faraway Trees and went flying to different lands on Wishing Chairs. I could go anywhere, anytime. Those otherworlds became sanctuaries to me through my dad's illness and death and my spinal surgeries. ...
