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A Carer's Role is Extremely Challenging and Carers' Week June 2019 celebrates Carers in the UK

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Time to Care Talk when you feel it is  needed Laugh when you need to Cry if you feel like it. For Caring is Sharing. (c) nature thoughts nw Caring for someone can be a challenge many will find an impossible role but the photo. above, shows an image reflected by the daylight beams, of a person reaching for the moon, where as we know, the impossible was achieved!   On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person to step on the moon (via nasa.gov) The image in the photo, above, also suggests to me that nature always conquers come rain or sunshine, through happiness or sadness, during times of conflicts, we still see flourishing trees and plants that keep us all alive and thriving.  "Touch wood!"  (Trees are being planted as I write, and many care passionately about helping the planet's nature and wildlife species flourish, through their photographic contributions on the  London Wildlife Trust  site. Gene ...

Post Carers Social Share-Your-Experience day at Sainsbury's Merton cafe, London

Here's a synopsis of Carers Week's Carers which I will blog later. They are all superstar Carers: photo shows my write up of a full time mother who works and cares for her parents full time. 👏👏👏 @carersweek @MertonCarers @CarersStepOut @CarerWandsworth pic.twitter.com/z2HaXWFRAJ — Colleen Lue (@LueColleen) June 14, 2019 Being a Carer takes time, effort and dedication.  There are thousands of Carers who care for others without hoping for any rewards.  For many, it is a vocation and they work relentlessly to help others live a reasonably good life, especially as senior members require a lot of support. Lovella (I've changed the name) is an outstanding colleague and friend, who is not only a full-time mother and Union Rep, but a Carer to both her parents, as well as working full time! Her dedication as a Carer is shown when on my day off, I met Lovely with her father getting on the same bus.  It is not only dedication in looking after a family member but ha...

Carers' Week (10th June - 16th June) - Please come along to a Social Carers' Sharing-of-Experience event at Sainsbury's Merton Cafe Wed, 12th June & Fri, 14th June Time 1pm - 2pm

Please come along for a social Carers' Sharing-of-Experiences event at Sainsbury's Merton branch Cafe bet 1pm -2pm at 1 Merton High St, SW19 1DD on Wed, 12th June and Fri, 14th June for @carersweek #CarersWeek #CarersWeek2019 #carers pic.twitter.com/Zj0SfyO9rp — Colleen Lue (@LueColleen) June 11, 2019