I’m also feeling slightly weird that I’m feeling ok! It’s been 20 years today since the light left my little girls eyes and we were left broken hearted. So much time has passed, yet it seems that it wasn’t so long ago. Shouldn’t I be a mess today? Significant day, significant number of years? It IS the day my daughter…
During my current garden renovation, I’ve rediscovered a little tree I planted a number of years ago. It is still alive, but small for the time its been in the ground. A similar one I planted at the front of my house 3 or 4 years later, is now roof height! This poor baby is under 2 metres tall. It’s…
You think I’d be used to it by now. Yet the end of May rocked around and my mood started to shift. Really subtly, nothing to really notice at first. Just a vague sense of unease, a certain ‘flatness’. The unease evolved into dread and a strong feeling of…da da da…DOOM! I’ve been ill this past couple of weeks too.…
While planting a tree has enormous benefits to the environment and our health, planting a tree in memory of a lost loved one can help the grieving process. In Perth we have the avenues of trees in Kings Park commemorating fallen servicemen and women in wars, most cemeteries have trees where name plaques can be placed. There are groves of…
Besides gardening one thing that I did regularly after Rhiannon died was bush walking. I had been doing it before she died too, as the forests around Pemberton were perfect for getting out of the house and pushing a pram around to get a fractious baby to sleep! We also had 2 energetic German Shepherds to exercise. After Rhiannon’s funeral…