i know we miss them but the small things we miss a lot now a shep pie is a big thing to me daft isn’t it. if anyone mentions it i just think about chip. shop bought is good enough, food is food but next time have a try and making some home made chips x
That is the thing that I notice when your doing something and you remember those moments together, I can’t be very bothered about cooking for myself, seems a lot of trouble for so little.
my mom portions her food and freezes it so she only cooks what she needs. other wise to that plate two dinners so you have one for next day cook diners one day and desserts another. im sure Jean will be there to guide you. we all look for signs and i am sure my chip is beside me helping me. he kept telling me to learn stuff around the house because he wont always be there. i thought yes you will he has always been there. the first week the electric went my daughter didn’t know what to do. luckily it was something simple it was the trip switch. yesterday i was watching tv and it wouldn’t turn up i checked both remotes and changed batteries. when we used to lose the remotes chip turned the tele on from somewhere on the back i never took much notice. i mean how hard can it be. so eventually i got the tele to turn off. it wouldn’t come back on. so i started looking for the button on the back i couldn’t find anything. i sat down tried remotes again nothing. i got back up and tried the tele at the back again i said come on chip help me out the tele came straight on i thanked him. sat down and everything was working fine again volume was working and the remotes. i honestly believe chip helped me out
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I always cook daily Richard. I agree it’s not the same cooking for one. My husband loved his food and he had an enormous appetite and yet was so slim. I often batch cook vegetables now or do a simple stir fry for ease. Great that you’re trying though Richard. Yum! Fish and chips. Maybe tomorrow 
x
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i agree i could eat a fish and chip aswell good old fashioned friday supper 
I know what you mean Karie, now and again I find odd things happening
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there you go you in your own mind if its jean sending you signs. I knew yesterday when i asked chip to help me out with the tele and it came straight back on it was chip. he let me have a go myself untill i asked for help, still he is there for me and i love him so much for that x
Hi Kate, someone else said about preparing food as you mentioned, can’t go wrong with fish and chips, one of Jeans favourites, we always went down to Devon at least twice a year, Jean adored seafood
Richard
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I love your story Karie. It is hard without them, isn’t it? The pull cord on my mower snapped the other day. Fortunately I managed to buy a replacement online. It arrived this morning and a friend has just been to fix it. Probably broken the lockdown rules 
but I kept my distance and at least I can cut my grass with all this extra time on our hands.
Your mum sounds like me with her cooking. It’s a good idea. Routine is good too. You have a good attitude Karie, I like it. You’re in the early days of your grief and yet you try to be positive. Xx
I think your Jean had good taste. I love fish and I love Devon. We used to go to a lovely little place called Polruan. Do you know it? x
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we went to colwyn bay and had a fish and chip by the smallest house in britain it was a lovely bit of fish. Me and chip had planned when we went away this year for me and him to wonder off get a fish and chip and just sit on the sea front and eat it. When i first lost chip i said i wasn’t ever going to do that now i decided i am because i know he is with me x
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Another of our favourite places Karie. We go there every Christmas. You have to watch those pesky seagulls though. But the fish and chips are amazing. I’m actually drooling 
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No I haven’t been there, but it is just a lovely part of the country, we always said we would like to live in Devon
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im trying to be positive i actually believe chip is with me so im keeping my spirits up i want him to be happy so i got to try and be happy. My mom lost Dad 20 years ago it still feels like yesterday. She talks to him and shares her feelings. She copes well but i know she has really hard days. last year she got her self a dog best thing she has done he keeps her company and she got something to love. i worry about her all the time especially now. she been isolated since this began so 5 weeks nearly. it must be horrible for her. She got a routine now and it works for her. she separates her food bacon sausages even bread and her chips in portions and gets what she wants out daily. that way she doesn’t feel like she over cooking. she has times set for feeding buster and he makes her keep getting up to let him in the garden it all helps. my daughters got me a dog the week after i lost chip he is my little buddy and my protector and i have something to love x
chip was from stow on the wold in the cotwolds after a rough few years he ended up in worcester. we took his flowers to stow a couple weeks ago to put them with his mom and dad. just driving through stow i could see why chip wanted to go home now and i wish we had have moved there
the seagulls yes they dont scare easy do they they? just come up to you and if they want your chips they just get in there. we had a lovely day when we went there went round the castle had a little boat ride its those memories that keep you going x
Oh my goodness Karie, another of our favourite places. We spent our last holiday together in the Cotswolds just 2 months before my husband passed away. Stow on the Wold is lovely and I particularly like Bourton on the Water. Happy days.
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im not sure if it bourton chip took me and our grandson to the bird sanctuary for the day it was lovely . i will scatter chips ashes in stow when im ready so he can be back home but isnt it a lovely place
beautiful memories we hold so close now x
I often watch Escape to the Country and love it when it’s an area I’m familiar with. It can bring back all kinds of memories (and emotions). x
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