A friend of Elaine’s (and mine) called unexpectedly on Sunday afternoon to retrieve some DVD’S lent to Elaine just prior to her going into the hospice. We chatted briefly whilst outside in the cold sunshine and it was later, after she left, that I started to think. Elaine would have been up to Bruce atContinue reading “SURVIVING THE STORMS.”
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RITUALS and the LAST TWO ROCKETS.
Do you have any rituals in your life that you feel compelled to carry out? I don’t mean routines, they’re more in the nature of necessity and I’m not meaning habit here either. What I mean by rituals is the doing of something that is completely unnecessary to living but you carry out anyway, eitherContinue reading “RITUALS and the LAST TWO ROCKETS.”
A CHANGE OF DIRECTION.
This was originally intended to be part of a more general post but in the end I wanted to keep Christmas Day as compact and complete as possible, so it has become a blog in its own right. One of the things I had been dreading most was the coming of the first Christmas withoutContinue reading “A CHANGE OF DIRECTION.”
ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD.
For Elaine my darling wife- 7.1 1955/5.1.2021. In memory of just one of so many wonderful adventures together- Appledore, N.Devon England. We walked along the shore together Do you remember? The Burrows, We had it all almost to ourselves. The wide damp sand, the sea That house right on the cliffs edge, All oursContinue reading ” ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD.”
CHRISTMAS PRESENCE.
It was always difficult to judge what would make a welcome gift for Elaine. That’s not to say she was demanding in any way, far from it, but she had definite likes and dislikes that were not always so easy to guess, and, as her birthday followed Christmas by just two weeks I was alwaysContinue reading “CHRISTMAS PRESENCE.”
FRIENDS.
A funny thing happened to me recently on my way into the kitchen. When I say funny I mean that in the sense of its strangeness, not its humour. It was early one evening, I’d had a shower popped on a t-shirt and some sweat pants and came downstairs. Sometime previously I had leftContinue reading ” FRIENDS.”
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
Tuesday 12th October ’21. Today I killed a spider. Not a deliberate act, I hasten to add. It lived in one of the woodbins behind the house. I was filling the bin then let go of the lid just as I noticed the large black spider that’s been living in it for a while wasContinue reading ” WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?”
Book Launch!!
Lilith House Press is thrilled to present Elaine’s irreverent memoir is here at last. Published posthumously, hers was a life lived with unique humor and remarkable passion. Join Mark and Crissi and Anna for live reading and Q&A from listeners. Starting at Noon Mountain Time this Saturday, October 2nd. London time is 7pm Saturday. FindContinue reading “Book Launch!!”
A Horse A Husband and Cancer: the book.
Our cover reveal! The memoir will be available very soon! This is not a book about horses; nor is it a book about husbands and it is certainly not a book solely about cancer. Though that condition is the core reason for this work it does not make this some sort of self-help book forContinue reading “A Horse A Husband and Cancer: the book.”
Seconds.
What’s the most important measure of time? Days, years, decades maybe; perhaps hours or minutes? I think its smaller still, I think its seconds. I could get anal here and go into hundredths or thousandths of a second, the world of grand prix drivers etc, but let’s stick with something familiar to us all andContinue reading “Seconds.”
a horse, a husband, and cancer 