let you know that there will be a Celebration of the Life of Pat Thistlethwaite (Weaver of Grass) in Leyburn this Thursday afternoon (2pm). It's at The Garden Rooms at Tennants. I can't make it myself.
Well today is rather a special day, a Memorial, or better still a Celebration of Weaver's life. I cannot make it down to Leyburn but I shall be there in spirit at least. Pat faced life with a lovely energy and time for everyone in blogland, she amassed many followers. Followers who listened to her wise words about her life. Her life with The Farmer, wandering over the fields and finding the wild flowers together. She faced death stoically and said her last words to all of us with kindness and I think cheerfulness. She was the example we should all be.
When I think of her, I wished I could have visited her, I know she loved the restaurant at Tennants Auction Rooms, being dined by close friends and her new red leather jacket to wear. But I never did. I visualised the journey Paul and I would have made, it would have been from Normanby in North Yorkshire, we would arrive at Sutton Bank, the sharp cliff that falls down to Gormire Lake, where once a knight rode his horse over the cliff. Down the steep road we would go to Thirsk.
We only went to this town a couple of times, and that for visiting a bank. I remember it had a cute little patchwork shop there. I still have the print of Sutton Bank on the wall, for it was here that we stopped to feed a new acquisition to the household, dear old Lucy our spaniel from The Dog's Trust. She had one of the two halves of sandwich and we shared the other between us.
Weirdly today, as I thumbed through my tablet I managed to find Weaver's blog, but I still get denied on this computer, so I don't know what is happening there.
So to all Weaver's friends in blogland and elsewhere let us to raise our glasses (of whatever) to a wonderful person who lived with such grace.
I think a lot of us will be there in spirit. She bought a lot of common sense and good humour to Blogland and is sadly missed.
ReplyDeleteShe wrote so well on many subjects and I feel privileged to have met her 10 years ago.
ReplyDeleteHer blog is no longer available to read which is sad but understandable for privacy of her family.
Pat's blog is available via the Internet Archive.
Deletehttps://web.archive.org/web/20240913055517/http://weaverofgrass.blogspot.com/
Thank you, Damselfly! It's so nice to be able to go back in time to read Pat's posts again! This is terrific!
DeleteNot your computer, I don't think Weave's blog is available for anyone to read.
ReplyDeleteOh, I wish I could go to pay my respects to Pat. I so liked her Blog and her take on life. Even in her dying, she set such a good example for us of acceptance and peace.
ReplyDeleteSo agree! Inspirational
DeleteHer calm acceptance of her impending death, dealt with so stoically, was impressive. She was such a lovely lady, wrote a wonderful blog and I know leaves a lot of followers who will feel sad they cannot be at Leyburn tomorrow to remember her. I too am one of them. A lovely lady, much missed.
ReplyDeleteCheers to Weaver and thank you for updating us. Jan Bx
ReplyDeleteLovely post and I am one of the many, many people who will miss Weave and her amazing and interesting blog. My understanding is that her blog is no longer open and I wish it were. I'd love to start with Weave's first post and begin again. She was a remarkable woman and a wonderful teacher her whole life long.
ReplyDeleteHere's to The Weaver of Grass, with thanks!
Just to say I found her second blog from 2011. It was her drawing which she did every day for a short while and not her main one.
ReplyDeleteHere's a link to the Wayback Machine (an internet archive) for Pat's blog: https://web.archive.org/web/20240913055517/http://weaverofgrass.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteShe wrote intelligent, well-informed stuff every day for years, seemingly without any effort. A rare talent, even in blogland. I miss her writing and comments.
ReplyDeleteThe internet archive seems only to have her most recent posts.
Check the sidebar on Weaver's blog, scroll down and find the Blog Archive heading, and you should find a large number of her posts.
DeleteDoesn't load anything for me.
DeleteAh! The year and month headings do work, but the monthly pull-down links don't.
DeleteThank you, Thelma, for posting the obit notice. I was wondering if she had already passed but not knowing her surname had no way of searching. An intelligent and interesting person, always worthwhile to read her thoughts.
ReplyDeleteI am sitting at my computer now Thelma - with a cool glass of sauvignon blanc which I raise in memory of Pat the Weaver.
ReplyDeleteoh Thelma, I read your blog post, and then followed the links in the comment via the archive service to this lady's blog. Never came across her before, but her final words on her blog were lovely and beautiful.
ReplyDeleteAnd the fact so many people wrote back to her is a testament to how loved and liked she was by people.
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Thank you Liam and everyone else for replying. I know I go off 'piste' sometimes in my writing but I was very sad to see Pat leave this Earth. One of the things that did upset her was of course her first husband's sojourn as a Japanese prisoner of war. This always worried me when I was writing anything about Japan. But her faith as a humanist, (of which I know little of) must be behind her welcoming of all people. So I will shut up now.
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