Loved and lost

FAREWELL TO JOHN GIBBONS
Goodbye John,


UNCLE JOE
When I was a kid at school I was very fat, and spotty into the bargain.

WHEN DID YOU START HATING ME?
When did you start hating me? Was it when you realised how I felt about you?

THE BICYCLE
Marie Redwood entered the church quietly and shut the door behind with only a whisper of a click as the catch caught the lockpiece. She was like that. Quiet.

THE RELUCTANT HOOKER
Sandra and Billyboy had lived together for 10 years. She was as large as a house. Legs like telegraph poles to match. "'ated men" she said, and meant it.

BIRD TALK
You looked across to me with those blue eyes, smiled faintly, and then closed those eyes forever. Surely not, you wanted to leave me after so many years together.

TOO MUCH
So is it possible to love somebody too much and how do you know when that happens?

THE PAST
Should the past be back in the past, as though it never happened? I tried to do that but failed. Maybe I did not want to.

WHAT IS ...
Let's start at the beginning of this life, that made this story. The sun was shining in your hair, turning it into spun gold.

THE LAST TIME
The hearse came round the corner and I said to myself: "Here is my wife coming home for the last time forever."

NO CURE
Blue eyes crying in the rain.

THE BLUEBELLS AND THE RAILWAY
At ten years old I pushed a four-wheel cart six miles from the town to get bluebells. There was a house by the level crossing and I watched the trains go by.

ABERFAN
In a village in the land of the dragon,

I KNOW A SECRET
As I was walking past his room

LOVE EVERLASTING
Driving the last bus of the day, I had three journeys on the same days, which puzzled me greatly at the time.

HOUSE ALIVE
Living in this house I am, of course, alive, but there is no life in the place. Sitting here the silence flows over me. There should be somebody else here to make it live again, as it should and did when you, my love, were here with me.

FOREVER FOREVER
It was dark and raining and I said to her: "Shall I wait for you?"

SOMETIMES FRIENDS ARE NOT ENOUGH
The years have gone by since my lady wife was taken from my side and I was devastated. My world had gone.

THOUGHTS ON NEW YEAR'S EVE
On the 31st December 1999 I think that many of us were looking forward to the dawn of the new millennium with a sense of great hope.

I AM MITZU I AM DEAD BUT I WILL NOT LIE DOWN!!!!!
I was Mitzu's owner. When I was 18 months old I was bitten by a Pekinese dog, so my very clever parents decided to give me my very own puppy for my second birthday. She was a Cairn terrier and promptly named "Nipper".

THE ROCKING CHAIR
My wife of so many happy years used to sit in a rocking chair.

ONLY DREAMING
In the dark silence of the night I awake and like a forgotten melody I hear your voice, which I have not heard for so many lonely years.

ONE DAY IN MAY
Why did I return to this church in the village we loved so much when we were young; what did I hope to find?

ALWAYS REMEMBER
You, my love, are reading these words now because our Lord said my day was over and He took me into His care.

ANOTHER SUMMER
How I hate the long summer days without you. We loved them so much when we were together.

NEEDING YOU
My memories of you are as fresh as ever, the wonderful times we had together.

NEW STAR
You, my love, were taken from my side. You took my heart with you,

BIRTHDAY CARD
You gave me a card for my birthday.

THE RUSTIC BRIDGE
We used to walk through the valley in the springtime. It was so peaceful and soon we came to the little wooden bridge. It was truly rustic, made of poles and it crossed the little stream.

THE RUINS
The man stood looking out of his window in the farmhouse where he and his forebears had lived for generations.

THE WORST DAY IN MY LIFE
It seems on this particular day everything that could go wrong, went wrong. Waking up bright and early, I looked out of the window as one would expect in the month of May. I felt happy, and didn't have any foreboding of what the day would bring forth. Suddenly I heard my sister Mary call my name, and also call her husband's name. She sounded strange. Putting on my dressing gown, I ran down the stairs.

EVERGREEN MEMORIES
Following a family bereavement, my beloved daughter persuaded me to bring a dog into our home. I chose to have a Belgian Shepherd - a Tervuren. This was after hours of reading the pages of a book entitled 'All About Dogs', with a forword by the once famous but now deceased Barbara Woodhouse.

TWENTY EIGHT TOES
Our lovely Persian ginger cat, Sandy had been put to sleep. He was suffering and in pain, due to kidney failure.

DEAR DAD
It will be 26 years on Sunday since you left us. I keep hoping you are watching and helping us but I really know different.

MY STORY IS ABOUT MY HUSBAND
It began in 1927, July 4, when he was born. His mother, who was in service, was unmarried, but she did keep him for three months and then she put him in a box and left him on the Hove Town Hall steps where he was found by a cleaner who worked there and she asked to take him home, which she did.

LOST IN A GOOD CAUSE
Several winters passed and still I had not found my soft, woollen Prince of Wales checked shawl.

DEDICATED TO PEGGY
It was 25 July 1999 when my partner and I had just purchased our first flat together in Palmeira square, Hove. It was such an amazing accomplishment to achieve this we thought.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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