This is one of my favourite photos it is from August 2006 seventeen years ago it was on my 20th Birthday of that year. The picture was took in my Granddad and Lorna’s conservatory in my Granddad and Lorna’s bungalow in Whitley Lodge where my Granddad still lives now. This was the last time I seen Beverly before she died which was two days later a couple of days after my Birthday which was Thursday the 24th August 2006. This was the last time I seen Beverley and the last photo that was took of me and Beverly together it was her Anniversary just the other week the other Thursday that’s when me and my Mum went to Durham and put some flowers on Beverly’s grave at The Cemetery in Durham at Durham Cemetery just before we went to Durham Cathedral then went to see my cousin’s Kelly Parker and Scarlett.

I am looking forward to The NTDF AGM Annual General Meeting at NTDF on Friday it is on at 12.00pm until 3.00pm in the afternoon. Me and Simon Schofield will be volunteering and helping Liz Turnbull our NTDF manager. We will be helping her with other jobs and other things she wants us two to do also there will be food and drink on at The NTDF AGM to.

This is me and Eric in Mama Rosa in Cullercoats in September 2003 when I was seventeen it was three months after I left Southlands School and it was when I was in my first year at College when I was on the GNVQ Bridging course at North Tyneside College. This photo was took in Mama Rosa Restaurant in Cullercoats on my Grans 70th birthday. X

This is me and Eric in December 2005 at Christmas of that year. This photo was took in my Gran and Eric’s old living room in my Gran and Eric’s old house in Maple Avenue on Christmas Day 2005 just two years after I left Southlands School. I was nineteen years old on this photo and Eric was sixty years old it was Eric’s anniversary on Saturday just gone and that is why I am doing this blog on here cant believe it has been ten years it seems longer to me. X

I had a really good time at The NTDF Garden Party the other Friday I thought it was really good fun. On one photo is me Neil Joyce and Baldy Holly and on the other photo is me Paul and Simon sitting in the The NTDF Garden. I really enjoyed seeing Baldy Holly perform on stage again Bob missed his Boat and connecting flat but he was there in spirit. We were very lucky with the weather to and it didn’t even rain the whole afternoon that we were all there.

This is me dressed up as Pudsey The Bear at The NTDF AGM Annual General Meeting in September 2017 when I was thirty one when I was in my early thirties when I was younger. It is one of my favourite photos from when I was younger and one of my favourite photos from NTDF and Liz Turnbull took the photo at the time.

Thank you to Bob Dennis and Simon Schofield for helping me on Learn My Way and for helping me get my Park View Project Learn My Way certificates.

Yesterday I took part in making a video about our personal experience of lockdown. This will be presented with lots of other videos at the end of the project.

Today i participated in a Heritage lottery project about covid lives. Myself and Mart Lee, who is also a volunteer digital buddy, were involved in a lock-down. For me, it was a challenging time. However, our digital skills helped us through, especially with those activities that were once in a physical space, but had to be transferred online. Our Digital drop-in is about, not only helping people with their digital skills, but also providing social circles of support. Let us hope there is no return to such lean times.

Lead project worker for Covid Lives