its Saturday again and time for LindaGHill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday.Our Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “pin.” Use it as a noun, use it as a verb, use it any way you’d like. Have fun!
One of my sisters was a fashion designer in her working days . Of course she worked her way up but designer she was and she traveled the world, New York, Hong Kong, China, Lyon, Paris, Milan, Belfast, London. When I was a little girl I would put a coloured pin in the map to plot her progress. She always looked like a fashion plate to me, she still does, there’s a kind of elegance about her that hard to pin down. As bright as a new pin that was always her. Even now with her fingers bent and gnarled by arthritis she is as sharp as a new pin where style and fashion are concerned. She made my wedding dress so many years ago, with Taylor’s chalk, tissue pattern (she made the pattern for my dress and fitted it from scratch) satin,cotton and pins. When I was younger she made many an outfit for me, using needles and pins. My most abiding memories of Frankie are her kneeling on the floor, tape measure around her neck, pinning material to a paper pattern, tailors chalk in one hand, pincushion on her wrist, and shears in the other and a mouth full of pins.
Now the tools of my trade were not dissimilar, a pin cushion on my wrist, sharp knife,a staple gun and tape measure and of course a mouthful of pins! But that is another story.
This is part of LindaGHill’s One-Liner Wednesday. Most importantly it speaks of how I regard all my sisters genetic and those with different parents. A couple of my sisters need a boost , you know who you are. I am always here for you.
“For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.”
The lovely and talented Ritu of butIsmileanyway.com has set us all off on Loveuary. I for one am excited with the task. What is love? We shall find out as the month goes on.
Today is Day 24 of Loveuary. My prompt today is siblings, I come from a large family there were nine of us three died very young … there were six of us up until 2015 when one of my lovely sisters died . This is a tribute to my sisters. I do have two brothers I shall come to them in another prompt.
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My eldest sister is 14yrs my senior and she looked after me a lot when I was young. Though she has more memories of this than I do. Circumstance then separated us for a long time then through the internet, more than anything else we have grown back together. Definitely one of the better changes in my life. The photo below is not us …. but it could of been.
but now I am older my best friend you have become.
Travels and families kept us apart yet
We were always together deep down in our hearts.
I think the need was mutual and I have certainly gained
From your life learned wisdom, stress, happiness and pain.
The computer has been our weapon of choice
But we still use the phone it is always good to hear your voice.
You helped me meet my recent changes the facts I did want to face
The times I wanted to give up you showed me how to just drop down a pace.
Now you need my strength and help, you need support and love from me
I can now repay the love and solace you gave, and show you how to be free.
Once you where my eldest sister just a photo on the page
But now we are there for each other no longer separated by age .
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My dear and beautiful second eldest sister died in October 2015 . She was a nursing sister all her working life and she touch so many lives. She died a horrible and painful death due to a drug resistant bug.
The machines murmured and slowly stop their pings
As her soul, finally at peace was released and found it’s wings.
After months of pain and strain she was free to run and laugh again.
I hope you are back with your true love and dancing to a sweet refrain.
God Bless you sister dear
I shall miss you so, yet still feel you near.
The wonderful times you have given me are
Memories I shall never forget. You are next to me not afar.
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My next sister lives not far from me and we see a lot of each other. She has travelled the world with her job and lived in Hong Kong been the toast of this and that has settled close to me! She has always been my idol now she is my mate!
Hello everyone welcome to the garden we have a marquee and heaters, all the garden furniture has been washed and I have put out cushions for your comfort.
Well what do you think shall we chance it . Now as always we have tea and coffee from all over the world not to mention all our cakes and muffins and as Paul calls them sweets! Every single one is calorie free! Plus of course we now have spirits and liquors to warm the coldest of you.
If we were having Coffee: I would ask you what has been going on in your world this week, has anything deeply affected you, have you need a sympathetic ear, a shoulder to cry on or just needed someone to make you laugh! If yes feel free to talk it out here with us. We will all help if we can.
If we were having Coffee: I would remind you that there are lots of other coffee mornings all shared and organized By Diana and Gene’O over at,Part time monster
If we were having coffee: Well it has been a busy week with alot going on, where to start? Lets look at world affairs mainly the Charleston church shooting in which a 21yr old man , Dylann Roof shot and killed nine people. He sat and pretended to be taking part in the service for an hour and then he shot people in cold blood.
I truly believe that guns should be totally banned. The licensing laws must be made stricter and more rigourous tests and investigations need to made into anyone wanting one! I believe that no one needs to have a gun, only those who need a gun for their work and then those guns should be securely kept at the place of work! America you are no longer pioneers you do not need guns . I do know that all countries have this problem to larger and lesser degrees but please it should not be as easy to buy a gun as it is to buy your weekly goceries!
I am speaking from an English perspective but our ordinary police do not carry guns. Armed police are a separate part of the police service and you see them at airports, ports and in London or locally if armed officers are called for….. In fact the last time I was up near Buckingham palace I saw armed police and I was shocked and surprised. Anyway I have no say in what laws other countries have, it is none of my business but I still had to throw in my three halfpence.
On the same subject I read that the Emanuel AME Church is opening today for a service of solidarity and rememberence for the relatives of the dead. I believe that all the churches will ring their bells in support. This madness and hate must stop it is like a cancer.
Only last night there were deaths and serious injuries in West Philadelphia read here about it . Everyone needs to stop and think about what is happening and why is it happening ….. sorry I am still ranting I must stop now.
Where are my manners If we were having coffee: I would say do let me replish your cups or pour you something stronger if I have bored or enraged you !
Now what has been happening on the home front , well one of my sister’s has been in hospital for the last two months , down in the West Country. Well a fortnight ago she had a heart double bypass and two valve repairs. She was in intensive care and then a hight dependancy unit for ten days, having been already in hospital previous to that for six weeks she was in need of family! We could not visit before because she had been very sick and at one point she caught the Norovirus .
My eldest sister wanted to visit her as well so the husband kindly said we would drive up to her house ( she lives up North ) and we would stay the night before driving down to the West Country the next day. My sister had offered to come to us by train but it was a long and complicated journey. Any how we made the trip and visited the sister in hospital and stayed over two nights , she looked better than we expected and she perked up a lot when we spent time with her. We did not like to leave her but good news since we have returned home she been taken from the large hospital, she was in when we saw her, to her local hospital where she knows the staff and her friends can visit her easily . Here are a few of the sights we saw .
Such a tall tree!
Such a pretty tree
An old water mill
If we were having coffee : Let me get you some more cake before I take you out to see the veg garden …I know yawn…yawn but this year I thought a weekly garden update might be fun….. or maybe not , if it is boring you just tell me!
Tomato alley honest they have grown!
Flowers on the toms
Beans and potatoes
Amazing how the beans know to climb!
Roses being nosey
Hello reds!
Beans
Potatoe flowers
are they not pretty?
Promise of fruit
pretty yellow
and the extra beans
Well If we were having coffee : I tell you that it is fathers day here so I wish every Dad who is celebrating today a very special day! I am off to cook a special meal from hubby the boys have all been in touch and so he is happy!
If we were having coffee: Shall we all go across and see Paul and all his guests , we need to encourage Paul to start writing a book about the nitty gritty of dialysis and all the wonderful little incites he gives us weekly of his treatment highs and lows. It would be a great help to many even those who are not even going through treatment! Also all the lovely little assides of people he meets while at the hospital …come one lets twist his arm , gently of course!
Once again I thank you all for visiting me and Paul too we love to see you and hear what you have to say and we hope you will join us again next week! Hugs to you all!
Do all stay and be comfortable we love to see you all.
Brothers and sisters look out for each other. We argue and fall out and then we grow back together. We help each other we stand back and let each other make our bad mistakes, we applaud the loudests at each others triumphs. We feel each others pain … each other are the words ! We are there for each other when needed and gone when not. We may not be perfect but we love each other !
Bossy but no always so
There for each other
Love for us. will always grow ❤
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If we were having coffee: I would tell you to sit down and put your feet up and take it easy!
I’d tell you: today I was up early and at the gym by 7.30am…. I hate the gym but if I do not exercise regularly I seize up! After the gym I went home sorted the washing had breakfast then washed and changed. Then I picked a friend up and took her to a job interview. While she was there I took the opportunity to drop in to see my sister for a cuppa.
While we were chatting I noticed her two ( feral cats) were sitting by her french doors watching me. Nothing very unusual there I hear you say but! These cats have ignored and given me a wide birth for over a year now.
My sister has a house abroad and there had been a cat that had had a litter of kittens in her garden about 18 months ago.. The residents had sent round a letter telling people not to feed the feral cats, well my sister, never one for rules, ignored the missive.
Sadly the mother cat and all but two of the kittens died so F took the survivors into her house and she and her hubby fell in love with them. As time for their return home approached they had the cats, checked out , deloused and spade and doctored and chipped even got them their own passports. They would not be left behind.
When my sister and her husband flew home the kittens began their train journey home too. Well the cats were used to my sister and her husband but they have taken a long time to accept anyone else. So the fact that they both sat still long enough for me to photo them and for the female ( the feistiest of the two ) to circle me three times and eventually sniff my feet! was a huge landmark.
I’d tell you: After picking my friend up after her job interview she asked me back for coffee. I drink my coffee black and because today was a hot one I was thirsty. I went to the sink to put some cold water into my hot coffee. Out of the corner of my eye I saw her cat jump up on to the sink unit beside me.
What the ? I squeaked, my friend just laughed… he wants a drink she told me. Imagine my amazement as I watch the cat drink from the tap!
I had never seen this before. I know cats are clever and do amazing things but!!
I’d tell you : That photo of the cat was supposed to be a video….. I am working on that! For now a photo will have to do until I find out how to transfer the video to wordpress!
Well it has been a feline day today and that was only the morning! I did get home mid afternoon, did some housework, prepared tonight’s and tomorrows dinner.
If we were having coffee I’d ask you : would you like another cuppa, or a biscuit . I’d tell you I have really come to enjoy these chats and I’d love to here what you would tell me , If we were having coffee.
It did not stop raining today and it would of been really miserable had it not been for the fact that I was visiting my sister in law who is not my sister in law any more for she is no longer married to my husbands brother! That not withstanding I have been friends with her girl and woman for 47yrs. Yes I was thirteen and she was fifteen, when we first met. Both of us sitting on the 97 bus not sure whether or not to talk, Then when we both got off at the same bus stop and started walking in the same direction we broke the ice.
We have been solid since, I like to think we are more like sister even though the in law title is now debunked. We have been through thick and thin and weathered some nasty storms!
Talking of storms , today was wet! So we stayed in the warm and drank coffee, had parsnip soup for dinner and chatted about all sorts. Our children, grandchildren …( my first grandchild as yet unborn, D already has one ) husbands, houses, my son’s new home, her daughters job, her granddaughters triumphs. Of course we talked of the dogs the beautiful dogs.
The dogs have two beds in the kitchen dining room. They take up a lot of room! One bed ( a huge bed large enough for them both ) fills an alcove. The only trouble is that one dog , the younger one always insists on laying on top of the older dog. So D hit on a brilliant idea, get the husband to put a separator down the center of the bed ….. each dog then could have his own space and the extra bed could be removed !
success
Well they were not too sure at first but no one likes change do they?
So after a while they settled down and after their duvets and cushions went in, all was looking cosy!
comfy and cosy
So we thought , we turned back to our photos and our coffee and time ticked on. The dogs were happy, the dogs were comfortable , the dogs seemed very quiet and settled ! Job done, well done to D’s hubby the problem of the younger dog flattening the older was solved!
Well it was wasn’t it…………………… er? not it was not!
Nope, no it was not! It just goes to show you just cannot help those who will not be helped! You also cannot teach a cheeky dog new tricks.
The time came for me to go home. It was dark t was wet and it was actually flooded! I have not had the pleasure of driving through flooded roads before ! I did not like it but I remembered my husbands words of advice and I got through and after what seemed an age I got home safely.
So it was wet cold and windy in the real world today but I was happy!
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We may not be together but we are not far apart. You my dearest sisters are never far from my heart.
We may stand on different shorelines separated by the sea and county but we are never to far that my words cannot reach you and your thoughts cannot affected me.
The other night I spoke my grief I let out my pain. I put it here on line not realizing I’d cause you so much strain.
My selfish words hit you like a curse and drew your heart strings tighter than a mean man’s purse.
So I write this to tell you, all my sister’s three. I am whole and still standing, so you need not fear for me. My way may be dark and uncertain I am not sure of my road. But to know you are all there, helps me balance this heavy load.
Also my dear friends who read my outpourings, who follow me every night I really need to thank you have supported and helped me face this plight. The clouds will some day soon be parting and I must choose my way and step by step I shall make my way back to the light and a better day.
