5 Y E A R S • ago on 10th July 2017 at just after 3.30pm with dad & I sat by her side, my mum died. She had been in palliative care for 2 weeks but she did not open her eyes or speak for the last 4 days of her life. I spent … Continue reading 5 Y E A R S …
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
I have a yearning to travel again; explore new places. To sit in hidden coffee bars that smell of tobacco, sun oil and ‘Brut’ . Places where nobody speaks English . Sipping coffee, watching the world go by. To lie on sandy beaches where the only thing I have to worry about is whether I’ve … Continue reading L I F E | pistachio …
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