Where do you start Well I am hoping this site will be the starting point for many people in the future. Well the first thing I did was to get a pad and write at the top of it what we were trying to achieve. Not too much detail just get down in writing your early thoughts. This I think helps you focus on what […]
WHERE HAVE I BEEN?
Cannot believe how time flies – when we were looking after my mum in the annex I never seemed to have any time to write this but so much has changed sadly my mum died last year and now the annex lies empty? the last year or two of her life were not good – I should have written about it as we went a […]
Microwave meals for an elderly relative….an absolute godsend!!
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Mobility – what some of us take for granted is slowly taken away – very scary!
In the space of couple of years – which I am sure for sum people can be days, weeks or months my mums mobility has pretty much gone from being able to walk and drive to the shops and friends a normal kind of lifestyle, to now not being able to to walk barely at all… Nothing happened all of a sudden it has just […]
Will you be able to get into your house as you get older – make changes now before its too late?
As we have recently found getting my mother in and out of the annex has present challenges even though when I built it the front door had a ramp to it and the back door was level outside they both had traditional thresholds – how dumb there is the plastic from the double glazing in the way!!! I am so annoyed with myself as to […]
Get talking about getting old and where are you going to live, its never too early to talk!
Starting a conversation about getting older and changing where you live is never going to be easy! I have produced the following questions as a way of starting a conversation if you have come to my site not knowing what to do, good luck, if I have missed and great question you can add please let me know. 1. Have you ever thought about where […]
Rugs…decorative addition to the house or death trap for old people?
Rugs…decorative addition to the house or death trap for old people? We are having a running battle – a bit one sided at the moment about rugs in nannys annexe, they are silent and come in many colours but just waiting there like crocodiles, still on the floor, ready and deadly waiting to trip over the unsuspecting person!! Might sound pathetic and odd but since […]
Being near a shop is priceless when you get older…especially if you have an annex and relative living with you!
My family has lived in the same house for getting on 40 years and when my dad originally bought it I am sure he paid little interest in the small shop up the road! Over the years we have probably gone to it most days, when my dad was alive he would walk up there to get the paper and when he was gone my […]
RATS attack, they are everywhere, how did they get into the annex and how on earth do we get them out?
We have had the annex now around 7 years and without too many surprises Well the other day we got one! I went in to see how mum was a have a look round and on the window sill were large droppings – argh rat pooh…….. looking around under the bed, sofa, kitchen units pooh everywhere it was grim – how did it get there? […]
Building our granny annex was a great success
The day that changed my life [and that of my family] was the day that my dad died, lots of things happened from that moment onwards I lost my best friend and I was shocked into a world that I didn’t realise existed, that of my dad not being around forever. With my dad gone it left my mum alone in an old house, she […]
Where are your parents going to live as they get old?
Hello, would you like to help protect your inheritance? Try to prevent your house or your parents house being sold to pay for care home fees? Would you like to invest wisely in your property, make it more valuable, more saleable in the future with a solid built annex? How about trying to increase your property value? Do something while your fit, able and have […]
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