Friday, April 22, 2011
Special people.
What a lovely day!
The early morning was clear and bright and very quickly the little nip in the air had been warmed by the sun.
We went to a small charity car boot sale held at Collyer's School.
We browsed, but bought little. I have 7 books of 1930s cigarette cards and a couple of other items with a masculine interest.
We met Jo there and other people we know to chat with.
We came home via Asda to pick up bread and milk.....etc. There is always something extra.
I do not have a Christian faith, but it does feel kind of inappropriate for shops to be open on Good Friday.
We call ourselves a Christian country and yet this day of mourning amongst Christians is now ignored. In my youth shops would not have opened....except a small baker's which opened for a few hours on Good Friday morning to sell the annual hot cross buns; only available on this day. Both Bill and I can remember going to the side door of Hibbs the Baker in Horsham Road to buy our Good Friday buns.
Another really special part of today is that through a random thought, I have made contact with a special friend who I had lost contact with over 30 years ago. We are now facebook friends and have enjoyed a facebook chat - catching up with those areas of interest so important to older women, grandchildren and ailments!
Although Marianne is hardly an older woman, aged only 57.
Welcome back to my world Marianne and her husband Len, who many in both mine and Bill's family would have known in their childhood.
And this afternoon we met up with another special person.
We are so lucky to have over 30 very special great nephews and nieces, some who we rarely see and some we sadly have never met.
Caleb comes to visit his grandmother, Bill's sister, Pam, quite often and I do so enjoy spending some time with him and our niece Fiona.
We had a gift for him today - not an Easter egg - a special plaything.
Bill had made sturdy wooden garages for our boys to store their toy cars and to brrm them around on and in. That would be about 40 years ago.
We no longer need them in our house.
It is a shame that young John couldn't have one - but postage to Thailand would have been a ridiculous price.
So today we have passed it on to Caleb's world.
Time for sleeping soon. I slept so badly last night - I have taken an antihistamine this evening to counteract the effects of a clean bedroom! I think there was too much dust disturbed and polishes had been used.
Up early tomorrow for Ford and Littlehampton.
The early morning was clear and bright and very quickly the little nip in the air had been warmed by the sun.
We went to a small charity car boot sale held at Collyer's School.
We browsed, but bought little. I have 7 books of 1930s cigarette cards and a couple of other items with a masculine interest.
We met Jo there and other people we know to chat with.
We came home via Asda to pick up bread and milk.....etc. There is always something extra.
I do not have a Christian faith, but it does feel kind of inappropriate for shops to be open on Good Friday.
We call ourselves a Christian country and yet this day of mourning amongst Christians is now ignored. In my youth shops would not have opened....except a small baker's which opened for a few hours on Good Friday morning to sell the annual hot cross buns; only available on this day. Both Bill and I can remember going to the side door of Hibbs the Baker in Horsham Road to buy our Good Friday buns.
Another really special part of today is that through a random thought, I have made contact with a special friend who I had lost contact with over 30 years ago. We are now facebook friends and have enjoyed a facebook chat - catching up with those areas of interest so important to older women, grandchildren and ailments!
Although Marianne is hardly an older woman, aged only 57.
Welcome back to my world Marianne and her husband Len, who many in both mine and Bill's family would have known in their childhood.
And this afternoon we met up with another special person.
We are so lucky to have over 30 very special great nephews and nieces, some who we rarely see and some we sadly have never met.
Caleb comes to visit his grandmother, Bill's sister, Pam, quite often and I do so enjoy spending some time with him and our niece Fiona.
We had a gift for him today - not an Easter egg - a special plaything.
Bill had made sturdy wooden garages for our boys to store their toy cars and to brrm them around on and in. That would be about 40 years ago.
We no longer need them in our house.
It is a shame that young John couldn't have one - but postage to Thailand would have been a ridiculous price.
So today we have passed it on to Caleb's world.
Time for sleeping soon. I slept so badly last night - I have taken an antihistamine this evening to counteract the effects of a clean bedroom! I think there was too much dust disturbed and polishes had been used.
Up early tomorrow for Ford and Littlehampton.
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