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well ‘ Frosty Breaches ‘ died on sat, my gran. So we’ve been sorting out her stuff etc, and the things she has kept got me thinkin ‘ what a bad mother I am ‘ …!!
we have just had a laff with all my grans’ schooling stuff, all my late grandpa’s, their kids which is 5, even all their events throughout life, Marriage certs, birth certs. my grandpa’s war papers etc… his wage for a year in the 2nd War was £15 13 shillings and 18d. all his postcards and letters while in Germany, Italy, Greece and France.. even all my ‘great grandparents and back to a great great… the old Ration books, the ID cards…
even all the letters, cards from all us grandchildren and great grandchildren…. even my letters from when I first went to australia… there’s is nothing she didnt keep.
I was like that to my mum, I havent keep everything my kids have done for me, have got alot of stuff which Im doing a This is you Life books for when their 21 etc, but made me think, I’ll need to do it, as the joy and laff we the family have just had looking over everything was just amaZing….
the thing that got me was my gran was a twin, and when she born she had what they call a Cowl over her head which is supposed to be lucky, She kept that also, no i didnt look into it rank its in an evelope which she wrote a heart rendering note, thats ‘ she may of not had much in life, But had Love, Love was worth more, espeically that of a good man, love to share and give to your children, Love for Grandchildren, and Great Grandchildren.. So I have been rich in life ‘ to which My mum has finally broke down and cried..!!!
What delights have you found from looking through your loved one’s things when they passed on…??
god thats some find Mary..sounds flipping fascinating ! Im in envy of you having all that,to look back on. And yeah were too fast to throw little things like handwritten letters and cards out nowadays..i still have all the papers from when the kids were born,im sure they will find it fascinating when the time comes.
But to have all that history ! good on frosty breeches. Im sure the Peoples palace would love a look at it.Thats true archive material yer holding .. wow ! xxxxMary for reasons i wont go into i wasnt able to look through me mums stuff but have kept loads of my kids stuff and last christmas i gave them a book of poems i had written , to give them a small insight of what their mum’s about lol…… i tell em i love them often and they both know im here for them…… I too have a letter to them though and was considering a video but I dont know if I could bear for them to be upset like that and not be here to give em a hug…….. lol not that I would know but i think you get what i mean!! :)
If i can scan the postcards from the war ill do it… when I get time, as their funny as some of them, when it was such a bleak time..!!
Last year,,,,,,,,,when my mum passed away
In her tin box,,(they all have one don’t they :lol: ) full of papers and bits and pieces. We found what I suppose you’d call an ”ode”. My brother said he’d remembered her showing this piece of paper to him some 15 or so years earlier and how funny she, and he, had found it then.
During the following week, when we were organising her funeral, we had a humanist minister come to see us to arrange a service for her, she wasn’t religious at all, and we felt that this was what she would have preferred.
We had this ‘ode’ placed into her order of service, it summed her up completely. It made people smile on the day, laugh in fact! and it was exactly what she would have wanted, she’d often said that when her time came, she didn’t want people to be sad, more remember her with a smile. This is it……..
WHAT IS A SENIOR CITIZENA Senior Citizen is one who was her before the pill, television, frozen foods, credit cards and ball point pens.
For us, time sharing meant togetherness, not computers. A chip meant a piece of wood, ‘hardware’ meant hardware, and software wasn’t even a word.
Teenagers never wore slacks or jeans, we were before tights, drip dry clothes, dishwashers, clothes dryers and electric blankets. We got married first! and then lived together, we thought cleavage was something the butcher did.
We were before disposable nappies, jeans, pizzas, instant coffee. Macdonalds wasn’t even thought of!
In our day, cigarette smoking was fashionable, ‘Grass’ was for mowing, ‘Pot’ was something you cooked in! a ‘Gay’ person was the life and soul of the party, ‘Aids’ meant beauty lotions, or help for someone in trouble.
We are today’s senior citizens. A hardy bunch when you think of how the world has changed and the adjustments wev’e had to make.
HOW TO KNOW WHEN YOUR GETTING OLD.
Everything hurts, what doesnt hurt doesnt work. The glint in your eye is the sun shining of your bi-focals.
You feel like the morning after, but you haven’t been anywhere. You get wind playing cards. Your children begin to look middle aged. You join a health club but you don’t go. A dripping tap causes an uncontrollable urge. You have all the answers but no one asks you the questions.
You look forward to a dull evening :roll: You need glasses to find your glasses. You turn out the light for economy, not romance. You sit in a rocking chair but you can’t make it move.
Your back goes out more than you do! You put your bra on back to front, it fits better! You sink your teeth into a steak and they stay there!
Your house is too big, and the medicine cabinet is too small.
And as if all of that wasn’t enough!! Your birthday cake collapses under the weight of the candles!!
There isn’t a day goes by that I don’t think of her. I think too of the people who were there on that day. They all felt as we did, that it would have been exactly how she’d have wanted it to be.
I’m sorry for your loss Mary. You have some wonderful memories that she’s left behind for you, enjoy them xxx
Memories are beautiful things and with all the surprises she has left you, they will last a lifetime xxx (been trying to reply to you on here all evening, but having techy probs lol)
good greif i was low last night.happens to the best of us i suppose.some nice stories here though made me smile.
@cas wrote:
Last year,,,,,,,,,when my mum passed away
In her tin box,,(they all have one don’t they :lol: ) full of papers and bits and pieces. We found what I suppose you’d call an ”ode”. My brother said he’d remembered her showing this piece of paper to him some 15 or so years earlier and how funny she, and he, had found it then.
During the following week, when we were organising her funeral, we had a humanist minister come to see us to arrange a service for her, she wasn’t religious at all, and we felt that this was what she would have preferred.
We had this ‘ode’ placed into her order of service, it summed her up completely. It made people smile on the day, laugh in fact! and it was exactly what she would have wanted, she’d often said that when her time came, she didn’t want people to be sad, more remember her with a smile. This is it……..
WHAT IS A SENIOR CITIZENA Senior Citizen is one who was her before the pill, television, frozen foods, credit cards and ball point pens.
For us, time sharing meant togetherness, not computers. A chip meant a piece of wood, ‘hardware’ meant hardware, and software wasn’t even a word.
Teenagers never wore slacks or jeans, we were before tights, drip dry clothes, dishwashers, clothes dryers and electric blankets. We got married first! and then lived together, we thought cleavage was something the butcher did.
We were before disposable nappies, jeans, pizzas, instant coffee. Macdonalds wasn’t even thought of!
In our day, cigarette smoking was fashionable, ‘Grass’ was for mowing, ‘Pot’ was something you cooked in! a ‘Gay’ person was the life and soul of the party, ‘Aids’ meant beauty lotions, or help for someone in trouble.
We are today’s senior citizens. A hardy bunch when you think of how the world has changed and the adjustments wev’e had to make.
HOW TO KNOW WHEN YOUR GETTING OLD.
Everything hurts, what doesnt hurt doesnt work. The glint in your eye is the sun shining of your bi-focals.
You feel like the morning after, but you haven’t been anywhere. You get wind playing cards. Your children begin to look middle aged. You join a health club but you don’t go. A dripping tap causes an uncontrollable urge. You have all the answers but no one asks you the questions.
You look forward to a dull evening :roll: You need glasses to find your glasses. You turn out the light for economy, not romance. You sit in a rocking chair but you can’t make it move.
Your back goes out more than you do! You put your bra on back to front, it fits better! You sink your teeth into a steak and they stay there!
Your house is too big, and the medicine cabinet is too small.
And as if all of that wasn’t enough!! Your birthday cake collapses under the weight of the candles!!
There isn’t a day goes by that I don’t think of her. I think too of the people who were there on that day. They all felt as we did, that it would have been exactly how she’d have wanted it to be.
I’m sorry for your loss Mary. You have some wonderful memories that she’s left behind for you, enjoy them xxx
lol Cas…. enjoyed readin that…. i used to wind her up callin her Grabnnie… she’s bark back.. ‘ i i dinny sit on a roof n go roon n roon ‘ lol
my Aunt wants to say a few words tomorrow sort of Ulogy that spelt rite..?? and she asked my daughter of 9, say something NICE about your Great Grandma, she replied ‘ Something Nice ‘ lol well laff’d i did… I said no you’ve to say something nice that you’ll rem her by silly’ she said, ‘ oh when she came downstairs with that cream on her face ‘ and I said ‘ Great Grandma have your hurt your chin and lip, she said ‘ yeah just abit of cream to make it better’ she said’ will it take your beard and monstaste away’ lol My Aunt said oh we can’t tell that story lol then she said ‘ what about when she left the cream thats makes you skin better (immac) on her table and The Wee Barra smeared it on his heid and it burnt it’ lol so we said NO to that one…. she replied ‘ let me think ‘ came back 5mins l8ter and said ‘ Mind the time she had diahorria as she ate the cooking choclate as she couldnt see the writting on it ‘ we all laff’d again and said NO…. away she went… then she came back and said ‘ what about the nite me and mummy ate all her ferrier roche choc’s and wrapped them back up with the wrappers like the choc’s’ lmfao then when she went to have one she sat and open them all up sayin there wasnt a chocolate in any and was goin to take them back to the shop ‘ lmfao my mum said she made her take them back lmfao…
Mary sorry to hear about ya loos love but have to agree memmiores are good to look back on
Still look threw moms stuff f00k me for some 1 who lived on her own she kept every think……………….From most me punk and ska 12 in records lol to all me school reports
god some pics of our mom when she was bleatch blond behive hair do looks amazing to be hnest was a great looking women
infact i sat in me room sunday looking though some of her stuff with 1 of her cardies on me lol daft i no
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