Monthly Archives: July 2007

 Whats the best thing I have bought in ages ….

I love my crocs!  they are soooo comfy.  See that scratch on my left foot,  that was done by that little villian of a kitten, Mitten!  He has taken to creeping under my duvet during the night, which is sweet company, as long as he does not lash out at some point in the night because I move in the wrong direction.

Thank you all again for all your comments regarding Jenny’s story, they are such a comfort.

Whilst I was cruising around blogging land the other day, I visited Lucy Locket Recycled Her Pocket and discovered this ….

“I will send a handmade gift to the first 3 people who leave a comment on my blog requesting to join this PIF exchange. I don’t know what that gift will be yet and you may not receive it tomorrow or next week… LOL… but you will receive it within 365 days, that is my promise! The only thing you have to do in return is pay it forward by making the same promise on your blog.”

I thought it was such a lovely idea that I have jumped in and joined the party! Would you like to join in too and receive a gift from me?

My other piece of news is that I have at last opened a little shop!!! and you are all welcome to come and visit it.  I would make you a coffee, but the keyboard may get a little soggy, lol.   It is over at Etsy, there is a link on my side bar. 

I will be offering a variety of items,  cards,  papier mache, painted wood items as well as original paintings.  Do hope you call in – the door is always open 🙂

I would like to say a huge thank you to those who have sent me comments on my last post,  I feel as though I have opened a door to a secret part of me and friends have come in and held my hand, I can’t tell you how much I needed that.  

It all seems to fit together now.   When Jen said she was going on this trip, she told us about this live journal that she had set up.  I had never heard of one of these.  She sent me an email with instructions on how to get into it.  Then, in late summer 2005, sending me an email meant me paying a visit to our local library to receive it, as I didn’t have a computor of my own.  After she had left, I would pop in the library every few days and read what she was getting up to, and now and again I would leave a comment (how I wish I had left more now),  When in late January I was told of her disapearance, a thread was set up on the Thorn tree site, and I would anxiously follow that on the computor at the library.  By April 2006, I was fed up with sitting in the library reading what was really harrowing posts about the search for Jenny, that I decided I needed a computor so I could follow what was going on any time.  My older son Thomas had just turned 21 and had been given money for his birthday so we pooled our resources and bought a shiny shiny computor.  Which I could hug and kiss right now.  Best bit of electronic wizardary in the house! 

Whilst following what was happening in South America,  I also googled about stuff, mainly art, and one day I decided to google the name of a fab papier machie artist, Julie Arkell. and the result came up with ‘Juju Loves Polka Dots’, I liked the sound of the name and clicked on it, the rest as they say is history.  I had discovered blogs.

Jenny’s story came to an end last Friday, but I have so much to thank her for, not only was she the best of friends,  someone you could talk to and not notice the hours pass by, sitting by her fire in her back yard sharing wine, music, food and good conversation, but I have to thank her for leading me to you all,  I may never have found this world had it not been for Jenny, I loved Jen and I love you all too.  Heres to many more postings.  Cheers!

silly photo taken of Jenny at the cottage on Anglesey North Wales,  March 2004.

In September 2005, myself and a group of friends gathered together to wish bon voyage to a good friend of ours, who was about to set out on a trip to South America that she had been planning for about two years.  We wished her well and hugged her and wrote in a book of poems that she was to take with her.  She kept in touch with through a live journal telling us of her adventures.  In January 2006, she went missing in Equador,  Police were informed and funds were raised so that her husband and son could go out there to see what they could do.  They spent 11 months in Equador searching.  Finally someone was charged with kidnap and robbery.  Our friend was never found.  Last Wednesday would have been her 52nd birthday, her family held a private  humanist service for her and on Friday night, family and many many friends gathered together to celebrate her life.  it was an amazing evening led by a humanist minister, her son who is an accomplished singer song writer, sang the song she wanted at her funeral, “May you never” by John Martyn, food and drink was shared, photographs were put on to a memory tree and with the help of a wonderful cajun band, The Boat Band, we learnt how to do cajun dancing.  As her husband said, we were not there to weep and be miserable, but to laugh and smile and celebrate her life.   It was the end of a very long 18 months that we had so hoped would not end as it did.  It has taken me three attempts to write this.  I can not bear to think that she has gone, I miss her so much.

Photograph on the memory tree.

Love you Jenny.

Jenny wrote in her live journal of her travels and adventures, it is a wonderful read and a lasting tribute to her.  http://mossleyjen.livejournal.com/

You have to scroll back down to get to the beginning.