Memories

Steve's mum Barbara left us on September 30th after a long long journey with Alzheimers, she's flying free with Eric now xx 
We are so grateful to the caring staff of their nursing home for looking after Barbara and Eric since 2012. 
After all this time Steve felt ready to have a look through Barbara and Eric's possessions that we packed up in 2012, and we had a healing time reminiscing over hundreds of slides of days gone by, and remembering the stories behind ornaments and trinkets.
Goodbye dear Barbara, we miss you, and we miss you too dear Eric xx

 One night last week we drove up to the War Memorial in Albany, there is a wonderful art installation to see.  It's called Field Of Light by Bruce Munro.  He has installed 16000 lights all along the Avenue Of Honour, that pay homage to the 41000 troops that left the shores of Albany destined for the battlefields of WW1.  I believe the lights are representative of the souls of those who lost their lives. 
We parked the car, and with many other people, walked slowly in the dark up the long, winding avenue, surrounded by magicial, beautiful lights and the shadows of the enormous trees lining the road. It was amazing, not only in its beauty, but is also really made us reflect on the devastating loss of life in wartime.  It is well worth a visit, and the installation will remain in place until just after ANZAC Day 2019.

 Until next time...xx