Guess it's time I put in a blog appearance? The last eleven weeks have been heart breaking and I have never experienced such profound sadness.
Now my chauffeur and pal is no longer here to ferry me around. I have been doing lots of walking. Last week according to the health app on my mobile phone I walked 51 miles or 102000 steps to the average person. Last Monday I walked 18 miles. Yes I'm fit again. I will be 62 in a couple of weeks.
I have took some photos on my travels and my next blog will about my 18 miles walk along the boreens of our peninsula here in the SouthWest of Ireland.
Any road or anyway. A few of my blog friends like Yorkshire Pudding appreciate dry stone walls and stone walls even made with sand and cement.
I have noticed two newly constructed stone walls on my walks recently:
A newly constructed garden wall. It reminded me of the herring bone basket weave style of dry stone walls you see on our peninsula. A legacy of when the Cornish miners mined metals like copper, lead and tin here in the nineteenth century.
It's good to see natural materials like stone being used to construct walls.
Hope you're all ok and I will try to catch up with your posts and write some more blog posts.
I kept coming back here Dave, hoping and expecting that you would resurface - coming up for air again from the pool of that profound sadness. Glad to learn that you have been walking away your sorrow and it's nice to stop and admire the skill and artistry we can see in most stone walls.
ReplyDeleteYes it a strange pool and a walk along the Grief Road. Someone said: Grief is our last act of love. That is so true and resonates with how I feel. Hope you're all well and Hull look they are having a good start to the season YP?
ReplyDeleteYes, the start The Tigers have made has been much better than expected but I will be happy if we finish comfortably in mid-table this season. "Grief is our last act of love"...So true and it never really ends. You will think of Jean every day until the end of your life and hopefully there will be many happy smiles along the way as you recall with deep affection the special moments you shared together.
DeleteThe Championship is my favourite division YP. Few prima donnas and the bottom can beat the top on the right day.
DeleteIt's like being an ham actor in a bad movie. I laugh and cry and all the wrong moments. Seriously it's the photos of Jean with the kids when they were little that really upset me. I still talk to her. Thanks.
Hope the boreens and coast walks of Beara will lift your spirits!
ReplyDeleteHi Sabine. We live opposite Beara. It's a lovely place to walk on a nice day. Thanks.
DeleteYou never get over it, but at least you seem to be just about coping. Please don't sink into depression. Stay strong.
ReplyDeleteHi Tasker. It took me a while to accept that I would never see her again. The bedroom is so peaceful and full of her presence. I thank God for the thirty and half years he gave us together. It's more deep sadness than depression. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a hard time. Memory is treacherous jumping out at you just when you're doing better. It's a rollercoaster, but it does calm down over time.
ReplyDeleteI grew up on the north Yorkshire moors, and drystone walls are an early memory. They're artworks as well as landmarks.
Memory is treacherous Boud at this time. You sound like you have been through a lot. Lancashire and Yorkshire have a lot of the drystone walls along with Derbyshire and the Lake District. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteMemories will always keep jumping out.. welcome them.
ReplyDeleteKeep walking...it will keep you fit if nothing else. It is what I did for weeks after Mountain Man died, a year before I got together with Pirate.
That isn't a dry stone wall.is it ?! I hope they are using mortar not cement.
Thanks GZ. Gosh you have had it tough haven't you? Walking definitely helps and changes your mood. Especially if you're lucky enough to meet and have a chat with someone. The wall looks like a drystone wall but it's held together with a dry mix. It helps hold the round boulders in place. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteSo glad to see your post, Dave. Stone walls are truly works of art. Stay safe and well.
ReplyDeleteThanks Damselfly. The walls are functional but so beautiful. They really are works of art and the fruits of blood, sweat and much thought.
ReplyDeleteThose walls look sturdy and should last for years, so glad to read your words, we are here anytime you need us. I'm missing your post.
ReplyDeleteHi Marlene. The walls should stand for many generations. Thank for your kind words at this very sad time.
DeleteGood to see you Dave. Norwich are having a bad start to the season but have Philippe Clement now. He has his work cut out. Rachel.
ReplyDeleteHello again Dave. I was worried about you x
ReplyDeleteI see the walking has given you some solace. Long, quiet walks give me my best thinking time and being out there in such beautiful surroundings would lift my spirits.
Thanks Rachel. The Championship is a very difficult league to get out of. I wish Norwich well for this season. They always played attractive football with wingers like United use to play.
ReplyDeleteHi JayCee. The walks do me good. Looking at four walls all day isn't good for the spirit.
ReplyDeleteHello again. Grief is like having a hole in your bedroom floor - you eventually learn how to walk around it but time happen something catches your eye and you stumble into it again. The stumbles get firther apart and last less time but the hole remains. Over here the spuds are flowering, the gorn germination was patchy but the plants I have are strong and growing fast, peas and beans are having a disaster time, but I have about 70 pumpkin plants grown from saved seed....if I get them planted all over here it will be an interesting harvet this year. How are the leeks and onions at yours?
ReplyDeleteHi TM. Someone wrote the dead don't grieve. I hope that's true.
ReplyDeleteI made potato and leek soup yesterday. Jean would have smiled. Thanks for commenting.
Oh I am glad to see this post!
ReplyDeleteI am fascinated by dry stone walls. They are works of art.
Hi Debby. Natural materials rock don't they? I agree they are works of art.
ReplyDelete"Natural materials rock!" Very punny!
DeleteYep.
DeleteI’m so sorry for your loss. The pain will lesson slowly but unfortunately it will never completely go away. It’s the price of love.
ReplyDeleteThanks Angela. I will never understand why the ones we love are snatched away from us. We live in a world of sand. Everything we grip onto slides through our fingers. At least our love lives on.
ReplyDeleteDave, lovely to read a post from you. Hope the walking is giving you some solace.
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda. I walked ten miles yesterday. It was a lovely weather. Back to the rain today.
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