About myself.
I was born in Otley in West Yorkshire.
I am married to Brian (who was born and lived in Brighouse in West Yorkshire) with a family of three sons John, David and Stephen Kershaw. I have eleven grandchildren.
I am employed by North Yorkshire County Council. I work at Sycamore Hall Day Centre along with Sue Parkinson and Liz Allen, activity organisers and Liz is also mum to Lucy one of our favourite visitors.
My career training was in the Hotel and Catering industry as a Chef and then Chef patissier in high quality hotels and restaurants until family came along.
I have worked on and off in the caring profession for many years (including Day Care Organiser at High Hall) with a break to run my own garden centre. The garden centre was very successful but when an opportunity arose for me to work at the New Day Centre at Sycamore Close I closed the nursery and returned to work there.
A little while ago (June 2004) we were chatting at the day centre and came up with the idea to produce our own newsletter. One of the reasons being, to keep people informed of the new developments that are taking place at Sycamore Close. We have now published our sixth bi-monthly magazine
Not very long ago (September 2004) we got chatting again and wondered if it were possible to produce a web site that would serve the local community.
I had a word with my manager who had a word with her manager and the answer was, good idea.
I am very lucky that I have a son JohnKershaw who designs and builds web sites. I had another of my little chats with him and lo! and behold! he set up and is host for our web site free of charge. I have been given fast track lessons on strange computer languages and I can now edit a web site confidently, knowing that if I get into difficulties, John will be around to sort things out.
The web site is now up and running.sycamorehall.co.uk
The content is for service providers, users, friends and families in upper Wensleydale.
I am now delving into the history of High Hall Residential Home which was the former workhouse and am finding it facinating. Geoff Keeble is a great help. Ever used a micro-fiche machine. If you can't read maps very well or you don't understand clockwise you could find them a bit tricky.
The web site is progressing steadily.
We now have a comprehensive account of the new Extra Care Housing Scheme at Sycamore Close in photos and text.
Day Centre members are now getting their own web pages and adding photos and information.
We have an up to date Noticeboard of what is going on at High Hall and Sycamore Close plus check out the Latest page.
We also have advertising sites for local business and local organisations.
Never having had as much fun in my life I have now well and truly got the wiki bug.
Have now started to develop a new web site thedales.org.uk
with Brian. We are taking it steadily so we get the content exactly right.
Basically this site is for people living working and visiting the Yorkshire Dales.
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Updated: December 2, 2007
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