In 2009, for many reasons that we wont go into here, we took the family decision that it was high time that we had our next big adventure. Its taken a year to sort out but finally, on April 11th 2010, we leave Blighty and family and freinds for a new life in New Zealand. This blog is for us to keep telling our story to those we leave behind and for those we leave behind to know that we miss them and they are in our thoughts.



Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Bad news

It’s a moment that I’ve got too familiar with in recent years, when the phone rings and the voice is unexpected and instantly you know that something is wrong. It will never be something to get used too. Patsy died on Monday night, suddenly, like a light switching off. It was not in any way expected. My thoughts are with her daughters. The loss of your mother is a deeply profound thing. All the things you should of said and all the things that you did say come back to haunt. The moments of greif that spring at you from small things, a smell a photograph, a sudden rising of a memory.

Patsy will be missed by many, we will raise a glass and light a fag and remember her in full throttle dancing in the kitchen with no shoes on.

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