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77/365 Message from a very long way off…

March 18, 2013 By Ellen

Yesterday was my brother’s 42nd birthday. As the years go by the fact that he’s not there to celebrate birthdays and the like really doesn’t get any easier. After the first year or so, that old chestnut about time healing is actually a lot of crap. It doesn’t, you just learn to live with it. Anyhow, […]

Filed Under: 365, brother, nathan

Take a moment, please

November 11, 2011 By Ellen

pic: Luckynick @ Dreamstime Kelly, aka Domesticgoddessque, has hosted a series of guest posts about Remembrance Day. They are an arresting and thoughful collection of posts. I urge you to take a few moments to visit and read them this morning.  Here is mine: They shall not grow old…  They shall grow not old, as […]

Filed Under: brother, Remembrance Day

A DAFTS idea, but it might just work…

August 23, 2011 By Ellen

Brothers in harmony! Cue drums, trumpets and fireworks. I’m going to introduce the child food reprocessing system to knock your socks off. It’s called DAFTS the Dinnertime Automatic Food Transfer System. Actually it’s the brain-child of my marvellous sister and she’s a health care professional, therefore, knows stuff. Let me explain the idea behind DAFTS. […]

Filed Under: brother, family, food, silly, toddler

This weekend was father’s day too for us…

April 4, 2011 By Ellen

One might be inclined to think that my family and I do nothing but go on memorial walks. But this weekend’s outing was for dad. It’s four years since he died and we have got together, one way or another, every year to mark the occasion. That post from 2007 was the first proper one […]

Filed Under: brother, Cumbria, family, mother, other things I have learned, walking

A walk at the Whangie

March 18, 2011 By Ellen

Is it through the Whangie, to the Whangie, round the Whangie? If you don’t know what I’m on about, or you think that, perhaps, I’ve come over all post-watershed, I will explain. The Whangie is an odd rock formation in a corner of the Kilpatrick hills. We walked there this week and the sun shone. […]

Filed Under: brother, grief, mother, poem, Super Sister, walking, women, Wonderful women

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