...which was remarkable for the celebration candle on top of it. It went up like a Roman Candle, very exciting! In the back ground of number 2 just about visible is BreaksandBeats and his wife who is 7 months pregnant. Needless to say the bloody thing set off our smoke detector...
Wasn't the best Birthday my Twisted Sister has ever had.... : (
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
*There's no vocabulary for love within a family, love that's lived in but not looked at, love within the light of which all else is seen, the love within which all other love finds speech. This love is silent..... *
T S Eliot
After the shopping trip:
Me: I've just spent a bloody fortune on you..
DD: Thanks
Me: You could try being a bit nicer sometimes
DD: These are difficult times
Me: Don't you go exploiting the situation with Dazzle_Dust (A family health worry)
DD: I'm not! You know I'm going through Boobitty..... !
I hadn't heard puberty called that before! I love it!
*Standing on the rooftops
Everybody scream your heart out*
...Who is Dazzle_Dust's mother. Happy Birthday, let's hope for some good news soon and see you Sunday hopefully!
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Defrosting the freezer makes me think of my mother. She was very frail towards the end of her life and would hobble in to the kitchen and stand in the most inconvenient place and offer to help. I'd tell her no, it's OK but sit and talk to me while I do it. Make the time pass pleasantly
And she would talk about Walter De La Mare the poet, or Andy a boyfriend she had during WW2 or her own sisters who by then were all dead. Once she told me about going to see the lying in state of King George Vl and how three queens had attended his funeral. My best memories of my mother are not from childhood when I was one of many but when we were two women together alone talking. It seems funny to miss her presence here in this kitchen which she was never in, as we moved here after she died, but I do.
Perhaps in middle age my daughter or my God daughter will miss me and my stories in a kitchen I will never know....
