for you: never too
old nor too absent for a
birthday cake or two155
family
And the greatest … is Love
for all the lovely
souls who did and do care for
us with empathy133
Focus
happy birthday young
murmuration watcher and
I wish you clear sightSRM – MM Haiku 120 Day 150
Smiler
how is this joy-filled
joy of a boy a year old
smiler already?SRM – MM Haiku 86 Day 116
5 years old
My grandson is 5 today, and it was a joy, by way of FaceTime to catch up with him this evening. Happy as the proverbial sandboy, he’d enjoyed the kind of day that 5-year-old boys should.
I’ve been wondering what I was doing on and around my fifth birthday, and have been amazed by how much I can recall.
Important and exciting years. Happy birthday, Jack.
Happy returns
When we were children we
used to give you the Giles
annual at Christmas:
‘To Dad, with lots of love,
from Simon, Sarah & Nick.’And we still enjoy those
brilliantly drawn accounts
of loving family
life in which everyone –
cantankerous grandma,the bobby, the parson,
postman, prime minister,
ma, pa, cold-struck Vera,
and the children, mad dogs,
cats, and neighbours, lived withcheerful – if chaotic –
confidence that they were
loved and treasured. On your
eighty-fifth birthday I
know my siblings will joinme in telling you that
it has been like that for
us, Dad. You and Mum are
creators; together
you made that greatest giftof all – our family
lives in that confidence
too. Happy birthday, and
thank you. Eighty-five times
and counting, we love you.SRM
remembering RM, 10 January 1932 – 18 October 2017 &
JMT, his daughter-in-law, 23 February 1960 – 13 January 2018
with deepest love xx
Reunion thanks
Many, many thanks for each and all, friends and family, with whom, over several days, in different ways, in various places, we have shared glad reunions. Beneath the same bright moon and stars tonight, we find we’ve brought a bit of each of you home with us. xx
