« Reply #55 on: Tuesday 17 July 07 00:39 BST (UK) »
Thank you everyone for your good wishes. On Saturday just gone. my other half and I drove to Leicestershire to visit the spot where dad died. Relative from Oz and my stepmother came too. We placed a couple of small posies in the grass verge as near to the spot as possible. This was opposite a country pub, from where at the time of the accident customers ran out to help him. We then had a little drink to toast dad's memory. Afterwards we visited with other step sister who is now sadly very ill and unable to travel.
When we told her where we had been she realised that despite not knowing the exact location of dad's accident she had regularly stood in the car park of this pub awaiting the return of her own son who used to be a racing cyclist. At that time all the races finished at this same country inn.
It reminds me somehow of the old Olympic Games Symbol of entwined circles. One thing connects to another but they all end up leading back to dad.
A cynic might say that you can read anything into anything but there has been too many links in my story for it to be a coincidence. For example, relative from Oz posted the search message for me over Two years ago yet that day when I entered the website there it was staring me in the face. Yet I had been on the site a few times in the previous two years and never seen it before. Ozzie relie was absolutely astounded when I responded to the message thinking there was no chance after two years.
The only thing I can think of is that this year dad and step mother would have been together 50 years if he had still been alive. She was a good ten years older than dad and it was assumed that she would die first. If he hadn't gone on that fateful journey what a long lovely life they could have had together.
Pennine
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