after a Sunday into Monday away in a county different again. A road trip past Stoke on Trent Birmingham, The Cotswolds to name some ...
An evening meal on arrival. A breakfast to start a day of the celebration of a life of a Uncle. The wake for all before the service. The family at the committal and home after for yet more refreshments.
A time to embrace and recount much, meet those not seen for a long time or not at all until now! The friends and family too one knows over the years of a family matriarch who gels the family unit together. The last family gathering for an 85th birthday ...
A sibling who made it out of the three remaining. The requirements of the usual big wet over enthused kiss. The only brother surviving after a stroke on his 59th wedding anniversary celebrations... he recovered to celebrate his Diamond wedding anniversary, this last February
The two sisters, one too frail ... one too far to come now, who resides in Canada ... a selection of the many cousins attended with the next generation of many more cousins ...
And all the new friends made since a second marriage of a couple who came from the opposite sides of the Atlantic settling in England after spending part of the time in both Canada and England ...
The surreal time back in the extended family fold. The years not missed to those that were .... and plans in the usual 'you must come to stay' again, such that was said at my own husband's funeral!
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