How to get through your loved one’s birthday?

How to get through your loved one’s birthday?

  In two days, I will mark what would have been my dad’s 105th birthday. Does it matter since he is not on planet earth? It does to me.  I have become a dab hand at this now as I have been navigating anniversaries, birthdays, and other milestone, all without him...

This is my happy place…

 I start this blog with a bold statement, but it is deliberate. This is my happy place. I am walking through the 10th year since my precious father’s passing. I have been through the roller coaster of grief and as Sir Elton’s song goes, ‘I am still standing after all...
How to get through your loved one’s birthday?

Happy birthday Pops..

I write this post on my father’s birthday. My dad would have been 104. My amazing precious father is still with me though it is 8 years since he passed.  I have approached this day in a more low key manner than usual, perhaps because this birthday celebrations...
Easter blessings…

Easter blessings…

As I write this post I do so sat in our lovely garden.  Around this time of the year the beech hedge starts to fill out and bloom and this time is no exception. So much has happened in the past two years let alone in the last ten years but nature reminds us of how we...
Cracked open again!!

Cracked open again!!

Last July I made the first big #commitment and change to my life from being in survival mode to perhaps giving myself permission to stretch myself and allow myself to be 💖 loved. It sounds sad and heavy but honestly, it isn’t. I’ve been blessed with a very privileged...