Those events are very meaningful and people get great comfort from them.
We have our Christmas bauble service, the Sunday before Christmas .
Two very big trees are by the chancel steps,at the back of church are baskets of baubles people have taken ,sometimes years before but all in alphabetical order so easy to find the ones with your family’s names .
Names are read out and people go up with their baubles and people on ladders for the top branches hang the babies complete with names of loved ones, and then lower down .
It is very comforting to hear your loved ones’ names spoken out loud ,they are remembered .
The church is packed and mince pies and coffee served.
We may not see many of those people until next year but that does not matter ,they have some comfort and their loved ones remembered.
That is the point of the service.
And it is almost that time again .
How time rushes by.
My mother’s anniversary yesterday ,I have some white roses by her photograph, she was only 61,but was not even hospitalised after a heart attack ,just left at home until I argued with the G,P .that she needed much better more qualified care than being at home.
But she died in hospital the next day after a second heart attack.
I have some regrets about that.
Well Flash Harry,Kyra and Layla the boxer puppy ,mummy and daddy came yesterday, will come again today bringing fish and chips!
They had fun with some stickers my son had got for them .Kyra loved her’s, fairies etc ,F.H’s were animals ,he drew cages etc made a zoo picture.
He looks so grown up in his specs ,black like daddy’s .
Well must get on a bit ,although it will need a tidy when they have gone .
It is so nice to see them all, but gosh Layla is big and gangly ,she is the first boxer I have seen with an undocked tail—- my it is soooooo long like a whip and bangs on things when she wags it - well waves it!
That can cause injuries and it has a lot of nerves but dogs do communicate
with other dogs via their tails.
Well I hope all are alright and those unwell are feeling better.
Hope you all have a nice weekend .Thanks for your news folks .
Cheerio.Viktoria.
