Steve Denehan

And he used to buy books on how to...

How to sustain your memory or how to improve your memory.

So he couldn't remember.

Like, obviously, he couldn't remember one line from the next.

It's ridiculous.

And so then what he started doing was he started going back to primary school.

So when Robin was in primary school, he would ask for her exercises and he would copy it and he would do two plus two.

He would ABC, AS for Apple, all of that just to fight against.

Now, I don't know.

If there's any science behind that, there probably isn't.

Probably, look, once it gets going, it's going to keep on going.

But Dad was a believer that he could rebel against this dementia.

And maybe it kept it at bay a little bit.

But that was his whole plan.

So he was recording himself counting and he was recording himself reading Snow White and stuff like that.

And then he would listen to it back over and over and over again.

in the hope that his mind would continue to remain as untouched by this dementia as it could be.

So look, the stuff he's saying on these tapes is gobbledygook, but it's nice to hear his voice.

I actually haven't listened now in a little while, but it's love.

I must because it's nice.