To all of you who have been wondering if I have fallen off the face of the Earth, I can honestly say that gravity works on me too and I am still here.
Pen's mum's funeral was held on Thursday and I have been busy helping with the arrangements, most notably, the Order Of Service booklets. My job was to produce pictures of Rosamond that would hopefully show her as we best remembered her and from the feedback and number of people who were keeping their copies, it was mission accomplished.
It was a baptism of fire for Photoshop and my first 'commercial' venture and Anne-Marie, who was Rosamond's sister-in-law and also took the service (she is an ordained priest who works as Chaplain for Gifford House), reckons we ought to go into business producing Order of Service booklets, but I don't think she was being serious.
Rosamond's Basinette (an alternative to the traditional casket as it is wickerwork) looked wonderful bedecked with all the interwoven flowers and coupled with a nice, sunny day, which many of the mourners thought was probably Rosamond's doing, since they were convinced that in the end, she had a direct line to "the man upstairs", made the somewhat tearful service, better.
We miss her already and Pen is feeling a little unsettled by it all, as Thursday really brought it home that her mum really had gone and that really was, that.
So basically, I'm saying that after Easter or Tuesday as the title suggests, I have a mission to get Chapter Four of The Cliffside Heroine restarted (or finished) and continue with my studies, trying to catch up with where I left off or even starting again, just to refresh my memory and ensure I have actually got the facts straight.
Hopefully, you will not have to wait long before you can catch up with Jamie and find out where this rather strange holiday is taking him/her, as Gabi has offered to pull all the stops out to edit and return post haste so you're not being kept waiting any longer than is absolutely necessary.
My thanks for the support you have all shown Pen and I and hopefully, normal service will return as soon as possible.
Hugs
Nick B
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Nice to see you're back, Nick, and my condolences
Burying a loved one sucks.
Sweet to see she had a somewhat uncoventional burial what with the wicker. Was she a unconventional woman?
You might do what I have done, slip a version of her into some of your stories. It can be a good tool to work out your feeings and to remember.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
Thank you, John
I think compared to me, many--or perhaps most--are mostly conventional. Rosamond was very conventional--in an unconventional way.
I will try and take your advice and write some of her into one or more of my stories.
That would be fun, I think.
Thanks John.
I don't just look it, I'm totally into John's idea
Order Of Service Booklets
Sounds like a great idea for a niche business to me. Why don't you give it a go?
Glad everything went off all right, Nick,
Joanne
Nick, your avatar bears some resemblance to
to my heroine Joanie or is that the other way around? You know, tall, loooooong legs, nice tush, tiny waist, BIG um, protuberances, sexy deep voice. Though she's a strawberry blonde not a redhead. And 'Toon rabbits do not make her laugh.
So far my mom, an aunt, uncle, niece have all popped up in my stories. Oh, make that two aunts and even my sister the Evil BlondeTM. And a great great grandfather I never knew but am named after. I mean he died around the time of Custer and that little argument with the Sioux at the Little Bighorn.
Have some fun with it. Plus people who REALLY made your life hell can also be put in a story, bru ha ha ha ! In fiction ALL is fair, or is that in life and war?
Sounds like your mom-in-law was quite a character in life. Might inspire quite a character in your stories.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa