Like is like a box of chocolates - sometimes it's a chocolate truffle [yum] and other times a piece of liquorice [yuck] Saying goodbye to my mum was THE hardest thing I've EVER had to do. Leaving my husband after 7 years was the worst thing I've ever had to do to somebody else . … Continue reading M U S I N G S • Life is like a box of chocolates
It was my Mum's birthday yesterday. She would have been a beautiful 76 year old.I don't know why I find birthdays so hard , I guess it's another year older … or in our case another year without her.Before I go any further these posts are never meant to be mordly or written for sympathy … Continue reading L I F E • yesterday my mum would have been 76
Hey Up Mum ... How is life up there on your cloud? Can you remember Monkey Magic [ how could you forget it was Mark & I favourite programme! ] Well that's how I like to envisage you ... zapping around on your super-powered - all singing -all dancing cloud It’s been a funny old … Continue reading L I F E | happy birthday mum
Sometimes I feel so ‘full’ that I could burst. I’ll look around & see people enjoying themselves; shiny happy people as 'REM' coined them. I feel overcome with a sense of enormous emotion , you know the kind? Warm ,fuzzy and all consuming. You are so glad to be alive, surrounded by the most amazing … Continue reading L I F E | dancing for the both of us …
July ... what does it mean to you ? For me it’s the start of a long hot summer [hopefully] alfresco ‘everything’ in the garden , weekends away, my best friends birthday. It is also a painful reminder that in just a few days time, 2 years ago , my mum and best friend died. … Continue reading L I F E | grief diaries
Morning , I'm posting something a bit different today ... Please bear with me and let me know what your think ; also let me explain. I have mentioned this on previous occasions, so I'm sorry if you feel I am going over old ground; but there is not one day since we lost mum … Continue reading MUSINGS | the poem