General Chat

Thinking of my Mum Annie
A wonderful lady who was loved by everyone she met.
She died 4 years ago on the 28th of october.
Love and miss you lots.
Also for everyone else who lost a loved one in the month of october/ november let us remember them together.
Sylvia
xxxxxx

Your Mum sounds a bit like my late Mum Sylvia, when we died we put in the obit notice, A friend to all, as that was such a good description of her. She would talk to everyone she met, in a queue, on the bus whereever and had lots of friends. Last year I went to the village where she worked as a Landgirl, when they had a special open gardens day, and tracked down her landlady's daughter, now an elderly lady herself. It was great to talk to her about my mother's time there and the other 'girls' that she worked with and became friends with. She put me in touch with a couple of other ex Landgirls who worked with Mum. Even that woman who was a young girl at the time, remembered my Mum taking her on the bus into Norwich from that then small country village so she could meet my Mum's sisters and have a day out in the city.

How I wish I had thought of taking Mum back there - not sure why she didn't visit them but I suppose meeting my Dad there when on demob and marrying him, leaving the village and having children etc took up her time and there was no spare money for bus trips. We never had a car when I was growing up but I could have taken her when I learned to drive, just didn't think of it.

The 31st of October would have been the 68th Wedding Anniversary of a dear cousin of my Dad's who helped me so much with family history info, but sadly died earlier this year aged 89, she had lost her husband a couple of years ago.

In 44 B.C. Cicero wrote, "The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the Living". He also said, "Memory is the treasure of all things and their guardian".

Enjoy your happy memories, Sylvia.

Lizx

Thinking of you Sylvia. Our Mum's are very special and we will always miss them.

FATHER IN LAW DIED 2nd OCTOBER 12 YEARS AGO
TEN MONTHS LATER GRANDSON ARRIVED
DAUUGHTER GAVE HIM HIS GRANDADS NAME
AS MIDDLE NAME

Thinking of you xx

Hi Purple s d,
Your mum sounded lovely, just the same as my mum, she spoke to everyone. Couldnt take her anywhere where she didnt know someone. It is so good to be able to remember them being so happy and laughing, even though money was so tight.I find myself saying the things mum used to say. She was very deaf and we had all laughed so much at the things she misheard, I loved to listen to the things she told me about when she was little.

Thank you saltnPepper.
You are right out mums are very special x

Hi Dizzi,
Its nice that your grandson got his grandads midddle name.
My niece had a little girl 2 weeks after mum died and she got my mums name as her middle name. x

Thank you Cat for your thoughts
xxx

Sylvia, I have turned into my Mum lol, always looked like her throughout my life, skinny and dark haired when young and now I am an apple shape with grey hair which is the way Mum ended up altho I do try and disguise the grey with a blonde colour lol My Dad used to go nuts when they were out as she would start talking to people she didn't know and Dad was the opposite, very shy and private, not open and chatty like Mum and me.

I do the same thing now, much to my son's horror, my o.h. just had to get used to it lol

Just wish I had inherited Mum's talent for baking especially her pastry!
Her sausage rolls and mincepies were reknowned through the family and I used to laughingly suggest she left some frozen for her own funeral 'do' I was so disappointed to find none in the freezer! Folk had to put up with bought ones lol

Lizx