It's been a beautiful day today on our peninsula down here in West Cork.
Thank you all so much for your heartfelt comments at the parting of my children's motherand my beloved wife.
The funeral service was so beautiful and the Canon conducted it with such skill and kindness and he read our Eulogies. One wrote by myself and one by our youngest son.
We had traditional hymns like All Things Beautiful and The Day Though Gavest Has Ended and I chose some popular music favourites by Paloma Faith, Chris De Burgh, Heart, The Beautiful South and Whitney Houston. There was a lot of tears shed that service, mine included.
I not only lost my wife I lost my friend and chauffeur and fellow carboot sale Womble. It's difficult getting to town with a very limited Local Link bus service on a Tuesday and Thursday which went last Thursday through the flooded boreens and twenty odd miles picking up four of us. It cost me 6 Euros including the return fare. Thankfully the return journey is less than six miles home.
I have got back into walking again. The Saturday after the funeral I visited J's grave and walked thirteen miles via Durrus and back home.
I am also reading a book by CS Lewis called A Grief Observed. It's brilliant and only cost me 74 Cents to download on Kindle.
The last month is probably the hardest month of my life and I like all of us have been through some very difficult times. I don't know why God took my wife. I know she wouldn't want to be separated from us. I had nearly thirty one years of happily married life and she gave me two wonderful sons.
Thanks again.
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