In loving memory
My sincere apologies for not updating the blog regularly, I have lost my mojo. This last few months have been difficult, filled with what could only be described as a mixed bag of emotions and events.
My grandmother fell and shattered her hip at the end of January. After a week of sitting in her chair hoping it would get better on it’s own she went to hospital. A day later she was sporting a brand new hip and my kids had dubbed her the bionic gran. Things were improving, she had started to get to grips with the zimmer frame and there was color back in her cheeks. The weeks went by and I have to say she was looking a lot better with each visit. Sadly, at the extraordinary age of 94 in the early hours of march 4th an infection proved too much for her to handle and she passed away.
She was an outstanding woman who dedicated her life to her family to the end, never complained and was always smiling. She was a fairytale gran with her perfect grey hair and her devotion to making other people happy. Meals would be lovingly prepared and served to the family and more often than not she would sit down at the table forgetting to serve her own. For birthdays she would always make sure there was a little something for the sibling so they didn’t feel left out, and she would always supply us with our favorite biscuits (usually those pink and white blobbed marshmallow covered things with jam in the middle and coconut sprinkled on top…what on earth were they called?) Read the rest of this entry »
