I have 2 neices who especually good to me ..i went the cinema with one of them on tuesday and the other is calling for coffee over the weekend ..my daughter lives away so its especially nice that we are close x
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Thank you it’s been an awful first day …plus I don’t want to get up and I was always an early riser and took Sel a cup of tea…one of my dogs keeps looking at his bedroom door so I open it now for him to look to see he’s not there. I started sorting some of his clothes today for the charity shop and I could smell his aftershave and found things in his pockets …funnily enough I love company but I feel comfort coming home to read these…Thankyou everyone
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Oh HelRen im so sorry about that, that’s awful. I honestly have no words that would make that seem any better. Please know im thinking of you
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Peg2 its so awful that every day or every week or month is another horrid milestone. No one on here can hijack another ones post as we are all sharing this horrid continuing pain, thinking of you
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Whisky, bless you. Last week I was doing ok I think or at least better than this week. This week is like been back at the beginning again. It does come in waves and docent like to announce itself either. The only way we get through this I think is to keep posting on here and know what you are experiencing is exactly like what we are all going through, in other words my friend you are not on your own. The dales was mine and Gills goto place, we loved our weekends away stopping in pubs, Reeth was probably our favourite. I doubt I could ever go back again now.
Funny you say that, Gills favourite cardigan is in her wardrobe and I won’t wash it as I can smell Gill on it. Once a day I go to that cardigan and reconnect again, gives me comfort
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Scotland was our go to place for cottage holidays Also the place my husband died I doubt I’ll ever go back there.
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Oh Eddie fancy that…well we had a cottage booked in Settle in March…my niece had a cafe there and I’ve had to cancel it as no one to go with.,we loved Reeth we met my niece and hubby there one day as they were walking the coast to coast. My family are from Yorkshire so I feel that closeness every time we went. I so want to visit again but no one to go with as my family near me are my nieces…we had no children just dogs …we love children of course…but my nieces are busy with their families and they go abroad for holidays…I’m just happy with the Dales and Cornwall …we had just discovered Derbyshire too …one day I might find someone to go with I just can’t say I’ll never go again it’s too final
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Sherbet we loved Scotland too its magical
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Yes it’s a beautiful place , so many happy memories . And like you I now have no one to go with ,I think it will be a long time or if I ever go back again . As it was my husband’s and my place .
Sherbet …died at the holiday cottage?! How utterly dreadful for you…we had just got back from Derbyshire when Sel died and I thought how horrendous if he had passed there…sorry I was so full of my own grief …did you have any support there
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Well I lost my bachelor brother some years ago…the most wonderful lad …he was 62..he used to go on holiday with me and Sel. We left it a few years before we could go back…I think it made it worse as I was terrible when we got there…if you have someone to go with and you love going I think it’s best to go as soon as
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That is so nice. I think, because Mark and I didn’t have children (by choice, but I do wonder sometimes if it was the right choice, especially now), I feel an even stronger bond with my four nephews. That, and the fact that they are all pretty special 
Being an aunty is a privilege x
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Mick and I loved Flamborough on the Yorkshire coast looking at the seals and puffins. We went last April when we knew he had cancer. Had amazing time and he walked more than we thought possible. But towards the end of our last walk, we both went v quiet….. I heard a voice saying to me you will never come back here together. So weird….. Never told Mick obviously.
Have booked to go on my own in May. Looking forward to it - only thing I am looking forward to - as think I will feel really close to Mick. If it doesn’t work out that way, I will just come home….
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Have you thought of holidaying on your own ,lots of people do .
I havent yet but id like to in the future when im ready
That helps, it really does x
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It definitly is ..my sister has had alot of problems and ive always been there for my neices and nephew.i feel its payback time now they are definitly there for me .
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Oh Helren, sorry your nephew can’t be at the funeral. I have neices with families who couldn’t come to Mick’s funeral. They felt dreadful so I told them Mick would have understood, but inside I was devastated….. On the day of the funeral I sent them the order of service and eulogy so that we could feel connected…
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Yes my husband died suddenly heart attack, while we were on holiday in cottage in Scotland . The lady who owned the cottage , was lovely like my guardian angel .she never left my side till my son and family arrived at the cottage . She then made beds for them .I will never forget her
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Someone who lives near me who’s been on her own for years. Told me she does sole holidays . She said they are very good
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