CrouchEnding: Two years on...

About Me

Location: York, United Kingdom

I started writing my first blog ten years ago. I didn't really know what I was doing or expect anyone to read it, but my mum had just died of cancer, and I found writing helped me begin to deal with this devastating loss. As the blog was called "CrouchEnding" after the London suburb we lived in, it seemed necessary to end it when we moved to York a few years later. After we had our daughter, I was then challenged to write a new blog as part of 40 (small) personal challenges I undertook in the year I turned 40. And the blogging was the challenge I enjoyed the most. So when the 40 challenges were completed and my young daughter finally got her 15 hours of nursery funding, I looked for something else to write about. Telly and Travels is it. Something I do too much of combined with something I would like to do more of.

Monday, April 02, 2007

Two years on...

Flowers in memory of Mum at the Bishop's Stortford Methodist Church yesterday.

None of us can quite believe it's been two years since we lost her. Grieving is a process that never leaves you; it lurks beneath the surface whilst you put a brave face on your daily life.

A rare appearance in church for me, but it was nice to catch up with some of Mum's old friends, who were all pleased to see me. One couple lived in Crouch End many, many years ago on Weston Park and Ferme Park Road and seemed entirely shocked when I said that houses on Weston Park now sold for well over a million pounds. They remember it being somewhat less desirable. I bet they almost wished they'd stayed now. Weston Park is one of my favourite streets in London; I love the trees, the semi-Dutch style gabled roofs, the colourful tiles in the porches and the fact that each house has original painted stained glass windows in its front doors. If I had the time and the permission, I'd photograph them all and publish a book of the prints.

Mum, wherever you are, we all still miss you so much.

REBECCA