Living Memories

When my children were growing up we were never in a position to purchase a video camera. Such an object was considered a luxury that we simply could not afford and by the time our situation changed, it was too late, as the boys were much older and didn’t want a video camera shoved [...]

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Photographs and Memories

I found the following photograph and comment on Gary’s Floralscape account. It says everything I can’t say right now for fear of breaking apart.

Comment by Gary:
This photo was taken on the 17th May, 2006. We were trying out Karen’s new camera.
We were celebrating breaking a 6 month diet. Karen had lost 14 kilo and [...]

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King of the Road

By accident, I found myself listening to a song that brought back memories tonight – King of the Road by Roger Miller.
Many years ago, Barry stayed with his Nan and Grandad for a week. Both his father and I had to work, Daniel returned to school after the long Christmas break, but Barry’s school [...]

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The Letters

Before Barry left this world, he went through his things and threw a lot of stuff out. Why? Did he want to save me the trouble? Did he dislike the thought of his family rummaging through his things? We will never know.
We do know that he chose carefully how he would [...]

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A Friend’s Memory

Yesterday, I invited you to Meet the Family. Afterwards, I settled back and went through the photos on both sites. A trip down memory lane, as they say.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered two comments had been made on my photos. Both were made long ago and I apologise to Fiona and [...]

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Message of Love

We live in the centre of a city. It’s a hive of activity in every direction, yet our street is a dead end, which means it’s usually quiet as only residents have any reason to use the street. At the end of the street is an alley, which takes residents around to the [...]

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A Tribute to Barry Henderson

Gary has been working hard on our family photos lately. He has been adding different effects, cleaning up the backgrounds, optimising the area used and the quality (where he can). This has taken many hours of work and he has started an online photo album called Floralscape where he shows a small portion [...]

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Switched On

Whilst visiting with my parents today, I made a statement that reminded me that Barry and I shared strong feelings about Christmas, but we were very different when it came to the music we listened to on that special day.
Let’s face it, there are only so many Christmas songs to listen to. For me, [...]

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Part 5: Christmas Traditions

Read these memories from the beginning.
Christmas 2005 – Our Last Christmas Together
Daniel and his girlfriend came over early – and I don’t mean 5am early either; remember we’re all grown up now, it was more like 9.30am – to open the presents. The photo below was taken not long after we discarded all the [...]

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Part 4: Christmas Traditions

Read these memories from the beginning.
Within a month, the boys returned to Australia and they came to stay with me for a week. I wanted to do Christmas then, but they said not to bother. Christmas had been horrible and boring (not because of the way they had celebrated with their father, but [...]

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