A Perfect Grandmother

We still think of her all the time. We owe her so much. In recent years I found the packet of seeds she gave me. She had got them from a magazine and they were labelled “For A Sophisticated Lady.” I wish I had thanked her for her vote of confidence at the time but …

The Christmas Grotto Next Door

Today I was reminded that a year ago, I was visiting a hospice on an almost daily basis. My friend loved Christmas. Her lounge was always like the Grotto of a particularly enthusiastic Santa, which had been decorated by elves on steroids. One year when I had been ill and had been particularly struggling, she …

End of Life Care

I had never thought I would find a hospice a beautiful place. I heard the phrase today, “End of Life Care” and it had reminded me of watching my friend’s final bravely-fought battle. The brightest light in the whole experience for me was the hospice. So much was going on in my life at the …

The Perfect Grandmother(an Update)

Found another site which describes wonderful , professionally-made cake pops: cocochloblog.wordpress.com I shared my post and something beautiful happened. My friend’s husband brought round my friend’s pink cake pop machine for my daughter. It made me cry, as I remembered my daughter having used it with Maree. Today we made cakepops and shared them with …