That’s the one!
Your turn.
Xx
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Man walks into a butchers shop and asks him what happened to his apprentice……….
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The bacon slicer got sacked as well!
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Spot on,if we keep this up admin will be slapping our hands again.
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I better sit on mine again, then.
Nice to have a giggle now and then, even on a bereavement support site.
Nobody can stand being miserable all the time forever.
We are all really sad and devastated to lose the ones we loved. But I refuse to let death take both of us. Bad enough that he died on that day. One of us is left to give my daughter some kind of life. I am that one, like it or not, and I have to get a grip, and get some of my life back, and that includes restoring a sense of humour now and then.
You have to have a sense of humour when you care for someone with the extra needs my daughter has. I love her to bits.
Xx
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I agree,this past week has injected a touch of humour and smiles into my life,for which I am grateful.
Your daughter is lucky to have a caring mum.
I wish her the best she can be.
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So glad my initial comment on the knobs brought some humour into the chat.
I wondered if anyone would pick up on it 
And how are you folk all so tech savvy?
I think I’m younger than many but have nothing remote controlled in my house - apart from the tv !! I feel old and a bit inept now.
Rest well all xx
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You really started something with the knobs😂
And your not inept it’s just us sad geeks that prob are.
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Thanks, Ron. Though, truth be told, I think I am the lucky one to have her. She is the reason that I keep putting one foot in front of the other, get up, make breakfast, keep the house clean and everything else. And her brother, of course, he helps me constantly. And if I threw the towel in, it would be him that would have to face the fall-out.
It’s a funny old life. We all know that people die. We know that if we meet and fall in love, the chances are that one of us is going to be left alone, but we push it to the backs of our minds. Then we are shocked to the core when it happens.
We all know that, should we have children, some are born with a disability, but we don’t think that will happen to us. Until it does.
I have loved and lost two good men, I loved them both dearly, and equally. My daughter has special needs.
If I had the choice again, I would change nothing. Even with all the pain and anguish, I would do it all again.
Xx
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And that really is the meaning of true love Jane.
Even with all the pain and loss, having known such love is to be lucky indeed. 
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So would I,I posted this a while back and it still resonates,shortly after my wife past I took my grandson for a hospital appointment,as he was in with doc I was sat in the waiting room crying,
A lady walking by stopped and asked what the problem was and I told her about my wife,and that I should have gone first.
She dragged me down the corridor to an office thrust a cup of sweet tea in my hand and asked did I truly love my wife I said with all my heart,her reply was would you have wanted her to go through what your going through now,and to this day I don’t know who that lady was or even her name but she was very wise.
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The lady was right.
You, me, everyone here, we were their “Happy Ever Afters”. We made them happy for the rest of their lives. They passed knowing that they were loved until the end, and beyond.
They didn’t have to endure what we are enduring.
If that is all we can salvage, it is worth holding.
But, given time, we can all hopefully salvage much more. We can make a new life which still honours them and their love.
I am proud and grateful that I was his Happy Ever After.
Xx
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The year before Norman died I was at risk and in hospital for 4 days. I had fluid around my lung and could well have gone first. My neighbour told me how worried he was then. He would have made a better life than I have now as he could drive and his mobility was ok. He would have had the support of his Masonic brothers and the two short mat bowls clubs he belonged to. But of course he would still have had the awful pain of grief. I know he was worried how I would manage but we do what we have to.
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I often wonder if happy ever afters are going out of fashion.
We have two kids a son and a daughter,both have been married and divorced twice.
Both are on their third long term partners.
Did they not see/feel the love and care in mum/dad growing up.
Or is it just the disposable society we now live in.