Tracey reports on being interviewed by the FT.

Oh hello, it’s Tracey, and I just thought I’d tell you about something that happened last Friday. I had a young man called James Standing(?) come to my house to interview me. He works for Financial Times, but on the video side. And he wanted – a public home and Kate from Young Dementia UK , and she thought of me instantly, which was very kind of her. And basically he wanted to get across to people that people who have dementia, especially if they’re young, can be very active and just keep on with their life, with their dementia. And because I do that most of my video has  of how it’s meant to be. So he opted for the time of 9.00 in the morning, which I know is quite early, but in my mind I just thought, ‘well if it’s early, we’ll finish early’, but that’s not how it – what happened and so that’s fine. So he filmed me. So there’s two cameras, two microphones and some lighting, which I thought was very posh. And so he got some of my story and then he took some photographs in the house, except my cat got – kept looking, and then he also filmed me making an omelette,  I know it’s not quite the most interesting thing, but sometimes I can’t always remember how to – but luckily it all went well. Making a cup of tea, doing some embroidery, which is quite complex at times. But I do it quite fast, I just sometimes slow down. And that was quite a long time, and then we went – we went and caught the bus. Luckily he didn’t film me on the bus because it was quite busy and I was a bit – quite embarrassed. And then we went to the sports centre and he went to take pictures of me on – what I do, really. So he took pictures of me on the bike, the cross-trainer, doing some weights, and I was actually I was feeling tired myself. We actually finished at half past three in the afternoon, so about six and a half hours constantly stopping, starting, stopping, starting. It was quite tiring and I fell asleep on the bus home and then I fell asleep when I got home. But this feature, which is shown at the end of the month, will be condensed to five minutes, so it will be quite interesting to see how he’s actually done it and hopefully it will help others know that they can carry on with their lives the best way they can, or stop the stigma, because that’s my big thing is stigma and people and perceptions as well. Because I get – I still get lots of stick sometimes, I suppose we all do, about what we – the fight we have and the fight we do. So I thought I’d just share that with you, really. It was very interesting and I’m glad that I was chosen and that he asked me. Anyway, have a good day. Bye-bye now.