Thank you everyone

Thanks for your support, for reading my posts and expressing your thoughts

Thanks for your gentle advice

Thanks for sharing your personal stories

Thank you 😊

I found this beautiful meditation,

youtu.be/uttz5kx5Cl8(Not working as expected?)

Helping you to heal from the loss of the loved one, it was a powerful journey..

Wishing you all a good time at Christmas, it can be a joyful, it can be lonely, it can be as you wish it to be.

Today and tomorrow I owe it to Bea to pull myself together as she has decorated, the tree, the house, the cat bowl even. We have more crackers that we can pull, my stocking is overflowing..she has even prepared sage to burn..

Time to be here for my Bea and share her need for love and warmth because I have been so wrapped up in Dad’s health, so wrapped up in our own health, that we have left the days go by..somehow at Christmas time stops, even wars stop, it is time for a truce.

Wishing you all well xx

Fran

[breatheeasy1]

Hi Fran thank you so much for this meditation and for thinking of us all when times are so hard for you. It's wonderful that Bea has made such an effort for you for Christmas, but don't put yourself under too much pressure to be 'merry' if it's too much. The tough times bring us closer too and she is your daughter and will understand.

I truly wish you a wonderul day tomorrow and boxing day though, and can't thank you enough for your heartfelt posts, replies and beautiful meditations. Don't forget we're all here for you whenever you need us💕💕

[Hidden in reply to breatheeasy1]

Hi Anne

Thank you 😊

You have been a good friend through my hard times..hope I can be here for you when needed..

Music is good for the soul and guess what Mariah Carey is already singing on the telly..

Fran ✨💖💫

[breatheeasy1 in reply to Hidden]

You already have been dear Fran 😊. And that's got to be my favourite Christmas song out of all of them...though it also makes me cry ha ha. Aren't emotions wonderful things?! Have a good day today xx

[knitter]

Thank you for sharing your journey with us, and showing such compassion and strength. Your father would be proud of you.

Thank you for the beautiful photo too. I can see an amazing orange sunrise from my window now.....as they say ...' A new dawn, a new day' .

Wishing you and the rest of your family well, together with your father's many friends and acquaintances whom he must have helped and inspired over the years. His legacy will live on.

Take care.

[Hidden in reply to knitter]

Thanks 🧚‍♀️

Bea took that photo this summer when she went for a walk in the hills above the lake. She isn’t an iphone girl like me 😃 she has a proper camera!

Take care xx

[sassy59]

Another beautiful photo Fran and thanks for sharing the meditation. Hope it goes some way to help heal the pain.

Be kind to yourself and enjoy being with Bea and the cute Aria.

Love and huge hugs. Xxxx💕

[Hidden in reply to sassy59]

Hi Carole

It does actually, the lady has such a moving voice and she takes you on a journey like a storyteller..

Lots of love and hugs to you and your family xx

Fran

[sassy59 in reply to Hidden]

Thank you Fran, take care xxx

[Hidden]

Thank you Fran for all your lovely pics ;facts and also sharing your struggles along the way... I truly wish you ,Bea and Aria a wonderful Christmas and hope 2018 brings with it good health .with love your lam sister mel xxx

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

I certainly do hope we can all have a peaceful and pain free 2018 sweet Mel..

Thanks for thinking of us xx

Fran

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[Pam1952]

Thank you for your kind words. Do whatever you need to do this Christmas, and take some precious time out for yourself....your darling daughter will understand. I hope that you enjoy your time together, and that you can look forward to a much happier 2018. Take care. XXX

[skischool]

Happy Fran,

i don't normally do New Years resolutions,but in your case i will make one now,that will be to help make you happy again,to lift your veil of sadness,so that the warmth you show and generate to others will beam back at you as strongly as possible to brighten your life.

By the way,am i looking at a field of lovely grape vines?my alcoholic red nose(akin to the reindeer you all love)is twitching as never before and grapes bathed in sunshine is a wondrous sight,..............Love to you,Bea and the regal Aria xxxx

[Hidden in reply to skischool]

Thanks Skischool 😻for that NY resolution, it is kind of you.

Yes Swiss vines my dear, expensive and tasteless lol, well I do drink their Pinot Noir or their dry white, that’s ok for a French palate 😃

I said to Bea let’s hire a movie, we saw Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk! What a movie..you soon forget your own troubles!!

I’m waiting for Guys and Dolls on BBC2 at 3.20pm, for a bit of Christmas romance..

Then old Rowan in Maigret in Montmartre on itv at 8.30??

Take care dear friend and your Scruffynounette xx

Fran

[skischool in reply to Hidden]

Enjoy your entertainment and the pleasant company of Bea and a black and white purring machine,probably wrapped in Bea's bedding,Perhaps a few treats and a bottle of a nice vino more associated with your birthplace may accompany your evenings viewing. xx mike

[Hidden in reply to skischool]

Haha..Bea says Aria is wrapped in her sweater..xx

[Kitten-kat23]

Merry Christmas. I hope you can enjoy your day.

[Hidden in reply to Kitten-kat23]

Thanks Kitten. It is fine today, just a quiet Christmas Eve at home, Bea, Aria and I, just what we needed.

Take care xx

[Shirleyj]

You and Bea have a lovely restful Christmas, you deserve it xx

[Hidden in reply to Shirleyj]

Thanks Shirley xx