Stormybay's Thread a bit of comfort in a hard world

AnW'sMum

He adores anything to do with Thomas the Tank Engine I should add!

Violetta_2

What a wee sweetie. Hope everyones doing ok x

Snaggles

I hope you don't mind if I share a brief story about my Grandma's funeral, which was yesterday.....

Just as a bit of background, my Gran was an amazingly brave lady, who fought through to the very end. She also had a wicked sense of humour!

The funeral service was lovely, the lady that conducted it had know Gran for over 50 years and shared some lovely memories of her (so much nicer than having someone who didn't even know her reading stuff off a card).

Then it was on to the crematorium, which is actually about 20 minutes away by car. The hearse set off, followed by us in the funeral car, followed by about 10 other cars full of friends and family. Half way there, the hearse developed a puncture and broke down. The funeral director (who also drives the hearse) called for an 'emergency hearse' (whoever knew such a thing existed??), and told us to continue the journey to the crematorium and he would follow as soon as possible (he was only about 5 minutes behind us in the end).

When we got there though, we discovered there was a power cut! As heartbroken as we all were, we couldn't help but smile that Gran was having the last laugh by being as stubborn about leaving us all as she had been while she was alive. It really felt as though she was looking over us all, and trying to make the day less of an ordeal for us.

Afterwards, when we arrived at the wake (which was heaving - I have NEVER seen so many people at a wake, which is a huge tribute to how many people loved her), the door of the funeral car jammed, trapping my hubby in for a good few minutes - the funny thing is that a few days before she died, she told my hubby to look after me, and not to get drunk (he very rarely does), so we were convinced she was trying to remind him of this (the wake was in a function room at a little local pub, and we thought she was trying to stop him getting to the bar ).

I miss her every day xxx

mandymoo

Morning one and all. I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to this thread and made it somewhere where we can all talk about our loved ones and share our feelings.
Have a good a day as you all possibly can.
Love from mandymoo xx

mandymoo

Could this thread be made into a sticky ? rather than having to look for it each time you want to check in on someone.

babyangel10

Hi Mandy,

Why not subscribe to it or add it to your bookmarks?

I sub'd and everytime someone posts you get an e mail telling you who it is and a link to this page.

HTH!

Hi to all, hope you all have a nice day.

T x

twink

thats a lovely story snaggles, your gran sounded like a much loved lady, my dh had a lovely send off and tea too and my stepmother played up at the graveyard which the family knew dh would have smiled at

sending love to all x

anniestar

AnW's mum Thank you for sharing that you made me laugh and cry at the same time! Snaggles I am glad that the funeral reflected the spark that your nan had. It is so much better when things are personal helps a lot. When my mum died the priest was a monster who made things harder to cope with. The saving grace was that the priest from the hospital who was a friend(mum was a nurse) co officinated and brought love, warmth and a true reflection of what my mum was like. Also there was hundreds of people at the funeral which helped. Feel very sad at the moment have just posted on another thread of someone with stress problems who is htinkin gof going into teaching! I had a very close friend that ended up taking her own life due to the pressures and demands of the job. I posted and am feeling sad she was such a wonderful person and its such a waste of a life. All for a job! Even now almost 16 years on I struggle to understand it and miss her. I think I said far too much on the other thread and was a bit strict(which isn't me at all I 'm a wuss!)but felt I ha dto say SOMETHING. I think I'd have been letting Alex down if I hadn't said anything. But not used to being nasty(hope I wasn't though) I think of all of you a lot and mention you in my prayers(dont speck on me though I sometimes forget to pray at night-5:30-40am starts NOT good!) Have a good day and stay strong. You are all amazing. Thank you.

justmarried06

Morning all, I haven't been in for a while but wanted to say I've been thinking of everyone and sending psychic hugs to all those who've needed them.

Snaggles, so pleased the funeral went well (although I always think thats a funny sort of phrase really) and I know what you mean about your Gran having her bit of 'fun' with your DH - we had an uncles funeral this time last year and had to pick some of the family up, and my car refused to start. Just as we thought we were going to have to call a cab and be very late she decided she would start and ran like a dream the rest of the day. We also had to break into the house when we got back!! DH's uncle was definitely playing games with us that day........

Stormy, hope the trip to London was okay and went as well as it could - on a personal note I work in London so if you're ever down again and ever feel a bit stranded and need someone there please PM me (am on nearly all day at work!!) and I'll be there

JM xx

nearlyrich

mandymoo wrote:

Could this thread be made into a sticky ? rather than having to look for it each time you want to check in on someone.

We have rather a lot of stickies but as this one is so popular I will stick it....;) it is a very popular thread.