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Cherish The Time With Your Loved Ones
So, the last few days have been a bit emotional for me. I’m really missing my friend at the moment. It’s around this time of year that she would have been madly focused on planning our next holiday to the Isle Of Wight. This would be A YEAR prior to the actual madness of packing and actually going.
Every August, the madness would begin in earnest. She loved the planning and organising; making sure that everything she needed was in the camper van. I dreaded that time, where I had to run around like a crazy person, packing, unpacking and repacking when all I wanted to do was sit in the garden reading, or writing.
ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD
Now that I have all the time in the world to sit and read and write, and all I wish is that I could be running around after her once more. Her health was going downhill quite rapidly by August 2017. I could see it. I don’t know for sure if she could, but we planned and we prepared and the ferry tickets and admittance tickets were bought, and in the second week of September, we were off.
Looking back, I feel so thankful that I got to have that one last holiday with her. We had a great time and I will never forget the smile on her face when we were on the ferry, and when we were at…
