May 2011
1 post
If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
31 posts
WatchThis is the second half of the Memorial Service.
WatchThis is the first half of Mum and Dad’s memorial service
My first ever sighting of a kingfisher →
What a shame my SLR camera had broken.
“He was permanently unsettled as if he were in an airport lounge waiting for a...”
– Nick Hornby- Juliet Naked
WatchMy parents’ coffins arrive at Worthing crematorium.
WatchThis is the higher resolution version of Mum and Dad’s PowerPoint.
Despite the presence of the sun for the first time in a little while, nothing seems to be able to entirely dull the empty ache in our hearts. There is such a huge hole inside which mo amount of understanding that they are blessed to have ended their lives so close together can entirely erase. They are people who are out of reach to us now. We can’t just call them and invite them round for...
Leaving Worthing hospital for the last time, having returned mum and dad’s hearing aids. I’m relieved that, barring something awful, I won’t have to be visiting it again. It’s clean and bright and everything, but there is an air of shuffling old age in it’s very fabric.
I’ve lost weight and am looking forward to losing much more in my commitment to a...
Our Christmas and New Year have been times we will never forget. My dad-90- has been declining gradually for a year or two now. It hasn’t been a sharp decline so that we got used to seeing him a bit breathless and slowing down. More recently he has had a couple of blackouts, one of which put him in hospital with a horrible gash to his head and a black eye. He also had several near misses...
WatchMy dad saying grace on Christmas Eve - nine days before his death
She’s just not recovered since dad’s death just four days ago. Ever since then sheer has been flustered, twitchy, suffering information overload. She has barely stopped talking. Except that
It’s not really talking. It’s just jibbering. Pointless chatter to fill the space.
Some of it is talking to Dad, some is asking questions„ but most of it is self- castigation-...
Mum in hospital
It’s quite hard to believe that mum’s so gravely ill, sitting here by snoring gently under her oxygen mask in hospital. Her colour looks oK and her mouth agape looks nothing unusual. She’s just an old lady sleeping, keeping the most precious thing she owns - Dads brown jumper - close to her.
And yet she is gravely I’ll.
Reflections on a dying dad
My dad’s dying. I always knew that it would come to this. I knew that one day he would start to deteriorate and maybe just peg out. Not wake up. Die quietly in his sleep. That would be devastating, of course and deeply sad. But not as sad as this.
When I thought about this event, I never pictured it with a doddery, breathless old chap clutching onto the oxygen tubes that he now relies...
Text to Joy in Canada
Just left mum and dads. He's really not at all good today. Constantly coughing. Eating nothing. Drifting in and out of sleep. Working hard to maintIn appearances for visitors. Painful to watch. Smile on his face for virtually every second of your phone call. He's got the atlas out and us delighted to have found where you are. We'll keep you up to date. Btw Sandy would have given a score of 4. Xxx
December 2009
19 posts
“Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was...”
WatchApproaching midnight on New Years Eve at Andys party in Hunston. This is how we’ve always spent New Years Eve together ever since we’ve been together
Resolution 3 - I must learn to ignore fear
Resolutions 1 and 2
I must lose weight. Half a stone will do. A stone would be better
I will not buy stuff - especially clothes- just because it’s cheap.
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you...”
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be...”
– Steve Jobs (via hrrrthrrr)
Tips on a low cholesterol diet →
Off out to dinner at the new fish place in Littlehampton- where the old Spotted Cow used to be.
“Signs of Parental Alienation (PA)
A number of signs or indicators of...”
– http://www.parental-alienation.info/publications/24-sigofparalisynandhowtocouitseff.htm
Symptom's of Parental Abduction Syndrome →
“What is Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS)? This is the definition of PAS as...”
– What is Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS)?
Coping with the Parental Alienation Syndrome →
This is a poem that was read out at the Queen Mother’s funeral. It is particularly nice and one that could be printed out and put into a nice silver picture frame and given as a momento to your sisters and brother.
She is Gone
By Anonymous
You can shed tears that she is gone
or you can smile because she has lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that she’ll come back
or you...
http://www.hostile-aggressive-parenting.com/determi... →