Peter Miller and his wife, Hilary Kingsley, downsized four years ago years ago from a large family home in South-West London that they had lived in for decades, to a smaller house just down the road. Although they are happy with their move, the process was not without its problems. Here, Peter shares what he wishes he’d known before they’d started.
We knew the time had come to downsize when we received a quote to repair the roof. It was
Whenever I meet someone new and they discover that, as a professor of psychology and neuroscience, I study memory for a living, the most common question I get is: ‘Why am I so forgetful?’
I often ask myself the same question. Daily, I forget names, faces, conversations, even what I’m supposed to be doing at any given time.
We all wring our hands over those moments. Forgetting remains one of the most puzzling and frustrating aspects of the human experience
