Dad – 10 years

I couldn’t let today pass without saying a few words about my dad, who died exactly 10 years ago today, aged 74. I don’t have many photos of him that have been digitised so I apologise that this one lets MsDD take centre stage, but it shows his delight at...
Some further thoughts on Remembrance Sunday

Some further thoughts on Remembrance Sunday

    I have written copiously before about Remembrance Sunday and if you want to see those posts of previous years, perhaps just search Remembrance up there to the top right hand side of your screen. There’s little need to repeat all that stuff here....

Farewell Beryl

  Beryl Angela Cook 25 January 1929 – 19 August 2015 A lone bouquet of irises lies on a wicker coffin. Tributes are paid to a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a friend. A venerable husband, hunched, crumbling, stands beside a recently occupied grave, takes a...

A final send-off for Uncle Keith

  We spent this afternoon in Kesgrave, Suffolk, finally laying the ashes of the OH’s Uncle Keith to rest. He died suddenly but after a long illness last October on the occasion of our last family get together. Auntie Mavis, supported by her two lovely sons...