a bit of scare this morning, I felt unwell, it had started last night, but it is just what I call a sick headache, which are married I think to migraines, those wretched headaches that will make you bring your stomach up and lie in darkened rooms cursing any noise. Messaging my daughter about the jigsaw site for Lillie, I had said it was weird feeling lonely and it brings home all the complications of being ill. Well I am getting better, and don't have to sort my will out! So what did my magpie instincts pick up today. Loads of photos I have, realising that my need to walk, explore and research has been an ongoing passion in my life. Lots of lovely photos of grandchildren posing and pulling faces for the camera, and above all a realisation that life has been very kind to me. We cannot measure the good things against the bad for both must come our way.
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| Is anybody in there? |
Lillie was a fashion queen who always chose her own clothes to wear, those furry boots went through summer. Anyone recognise the 'L' sign - you're a loser, a bad habit she picked up
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| The family at Gruyere a couple of years ago, somewhere I have a photo of me, my daughter and Marc her cousin about 40 years ago near the same spot. |
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| Proud granny hen with three grandchildren |
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| Lillie not talking to anyone, not eating her food, this was the era of sitting on the naughty step! she will hate me for this. Matilda at an earlier time and about the same age, once sat in this doorway, after having collected her doll to cuddle and made herself comfortable - howled. |
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| Paul having to come to terms with little ones...He never quite understood how these two girls worked out the code on his brief case in under a minute. But if you will choose your birth date? |
Perhaps tomorrow I will write something sensible, I can hear the long tailed tits moving through the garden and I resent a day going by without doing something in the way of work, but then............ there is nobody to see if I have vacuumed or not ;)
Playing with jigsaws link recommended by a blogger friend.
Nice photographs, nice memories Thelma. I did a similar thing yesterday - came across lots of things I had forgotten. Yes, like you, I have had a good life and a happy one - obviously times of sadness - losing both husbands but at least very happy memories of both of them. Stay sane in this lockdown.
ReplyDeleteI think sanity will be very hard to find soon Pat ;)
DeleteA friend sent me a photo of my son as a toddler sitting on my Mum's lap last week. It was a lovely reminder. Arilx
ReplyDeleteThree generations of your family already Aril, it is quite a surprise when friends send photos of years ago.
DeleteWhat lovely photos and happy memories linked to them.
ReplyDeleteI hope you are feeling better soon - stress can make our bodies react in strange ways. I am toddling off to bed now, having been awake since 1.15 a.m. Slightly shattered!
Well I hope you had a good nights sleep Jennie, at least you can relax without having to go to any antique fairs.
DeleteLovely photos and sorry about the migraine. Miserable things.
ReplyDeleteHaven't had one for ages Rain, forgot the whole process they go through. Become addicted to your jigsaw link as well, thank you for that.
DeleteMy father called little girls like Lillie "porky!" I loved them. One sat on the back seat of my car, in the days before seat belts, and entertained a row of children plus or minus the same age with stories of the purple foxes, which happened to be the little purple jelly shoes on her feet.
ReplyDeleteI was plump when little, then grew thin as I grew as up my grand children have, a family trait and one which my daughter thanks me for!
ReplyDeleteHope you are better. I'm betting on the balance of probablilities - that one is much less likely to catch it in quiet villages provided you keep a distance.
ReplyDeleteProbably true, but of course people go out to shop in the supermarkets. And yes I am better than you.
DeleteI do hope you migraine has abated now, horrible things. Lovely trip down memory lane.
ReplyDeleteThanks SM, there is not much else to do but take trips in one's head.
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