After Mum died a lot of people said to me ‘Christmas will be hard.’ There is a kind of expectation that things won’t be the same after someone has died, whereas in fact I felt like the spirit of Christmas encapsulated everything that Mum was about. Christmas for me is about family, giving, doing nothing and [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Christmas!
December 20, 2008
Mamarazzi
December 17, 2008
Just on the off chance that any of her off-spring turned into celebrities Mum put in the ground work on the paparazzi front. Mum was a photo-holic, taking pictures of the grand kids and us on a more than regular basis. Mum didn’t really believe in using the zoom, instead she just walked up really close to [...]
Dog Trainer Extraordinaire
December 16, 2008
Our family has quite a checkered history with dog ownership. We got through quite a few dogs over the years, and suffered all the dog-related tragedies of them being knocked down, put down and everything in between. We were an equal opportunities dog owning family, at one stage we had a schizophrenic dog called ‘Penny’ who [...]
IW60
December 11, 2008
Mum loved the idea of being eccentric. I think in her later years she felt she had gained the right to be as eccentric as she liked. She’d often mockingly accuse me of thinking her eccentric, when I knew she loved it if I told her she was eccentric. Mum certainly liked being a sexagenarian, it came [...]
Lie down beside me
December 10, 2008
I remember when Mum was sick, coming in from an early morning walk with my Auntie and going upstairs to see Mum in bed. Mum was just getting ready to get up and face the day. I remember going in and just lying down beside her in bed and having an early morning chat. It was [...]
