Almost ….

As I approach the third anniversary of my father’s death I feel despite everything the ground beneath me disappeared for a while. In fact this week feels like the hardest and I have yet to get through the day itself. It has been a while since I have felt so...

The third year!

Yes this month is a month of retracing our last moments together though I try not to but the last month is etched in my soul so deep that I recall exactly what Dad and I did on this day three years ago. Today three years back this was to be our final 3 hour drive. My...

2 years 11 months and 3 weeks…

So here I am about to mark 3 years of surviving ‘alone’ after my father’s physical death. Alone is the reality I don’t mean that in a self pity way far from it. I am blessed to have had some really lovely kind souls as my kindred spirits who...

1,000 days

Today has arrived. It is exactly 1,000 days since my dear father’s death. I have been thinking what to say. To be honest I doubted I would get here let alone feel the way I do at this stage. I won’t beat about the bush I feel invincible, unbeaten and stronger. I could...

Almost 1,000 days

I am on day 959 not long before I reach 1,000 days after becoming an adult orphan and being without my amazing Dad. Still incomprehensible that I have survived his death but I have thus far. Not a long time in the scheme of things compared to the decades I had with my...