I'm so glad you listened to it Shirley, thank you for letting me know as it difficult to gauge who is listening and whether it is worth the time recording the voice over. If people are listening that's great as it inspires me to keep going. I'm glad you found a connection to it, that certainly makes it worth the effort for me. Thank you. x
What a lovely listen on my walk this morning Lindsey. My mum also used to get Family Circle and I think it is responsible for my love of cooking and crafts. Xx
Thank you so much Gina, it's nice to know it has been listened to as you are the first one to mention the VoiceOver. I'm feeling a bit like you were a couple of weeks ago, a little deflated and not sure if people are liking what I am writing about etc, etc. It seems so hard to keep everyone happy!
Just need to keep yourself happy Lindsey. As long as you enjoy writing etc keep doing it. Personally I rather like listening to you speak and listened to another one this morning on my dog walk!
I'm so pleased you like them, Gina and thank you so much for letting me know. Like most people I'm not too keen on my voice but I am getting used to doing them now and actually enjoy reading, I feel like I'm reading a bed time story all over again! I'm a bit more up-beat today, last week I had a handful of subscribers leave so I think I panicked a bit and wondered what I had done wrong but realised I can't please all the people all the time so I'm just going to carry on as I am. Thank you, I do wonder why we do this to ourselves sometimes!
Such a great blast from the past Lindsay. Thank you so much :-) I was right here with you related to your references to White Horses TV programme and The horse with no name....
Oh, thank you Lynne. That White Horses theme tune has always stuck with me. I was horse mad when I was young, I read and watched anything with horses - the Horse of the Year Show was my annual TV highlight - I can still remember the theme tune to that too! Thank you so much for commenting, have a lovely weekend. x
What a beautiful heartfelt ‘memoir’ Lindsey. Such a lovely read. My mum was not a great knitter nor seamstress but she did pass on to me a love of cooking and gardening. And I remember Family Circle magazine too 😊xx
Thank you so much, Annie, I'm so pleased you liked it. It is quite difficult writing something each week that everyone will enjoy. I wish I had kept a few of my mum's Family Circles, they would be quite fun to look back on now. Do you remember when everything seemed to be set in aspic jelly!?
Your lovely post brought back many happy memories of my own mum, Lindsey! Like yours, she was a very good knitter and I was also fascinated by the way she could do it in one fluid motion with only the occasional glance at her work. She also made clothes for my sister and I, and embroidered table cloths, cushion covers and tray cloths, sometimes using transfers given away with magazines. She would call herself a 'ordinary, everyday cook' but she was actually a brilliant cook and could make the most sublime pastry, which I have never been able to replicate! All those skills, yet they were just seen as normal tasks for so many women of her generation. Making clothes was a way of saving money, aside from anything else. Your mum sounds lovely - as mine was, and I can't imagine the pain of losing her to dementia. My mum had myriad health problems in later life, but, happily, retained her mental faculties to the end. Thank you for sharing your memories! Xxx
Your mum sounds very much like mine, Sue, a multi-talented busy bee! When I think about it now, I honestly don't know how she got the time to do everything she did, and there was me making her do more knitting!. My mum used to make me clothes too, my dad used to cut the pattern and my mum sewed them up. They both ended up in a care home, my mum had vascular dementia and my dad Alzheimers, so not a good ending for either of them but I like to remember them before that as they were both such lovely people and I miss them dearly. Thank you so much for your wonderful comment, don't give up on the pastry! There's actually blue sky here this morning for a change, it's been so chilly lately, I've got the heating and the fire on. Hope everything is good with you, I passed by your old house yesterday and thought of you. I also found a video on my phone of me telling the story of collecting your cabinet, I was laughing all the way through - I'll have to see if I can send it over to you, it might make you laugh. Lots of love. x
I would love to see the video about the cabinet! We remember watching you go down our drive with it strapped on top of the van and wondering if you'd ever get it home! Lots of love x
My mom was dedicated to needlepoint, and one of her masterpieces hangs in our guest room. The picture is of lilacs in a vase. It took her many years to accomplish. I don't think my kids will keep it after I die, and I hate to think of her work discarded. I guess it's a lesson in everything is temporary.
I go to a lot of garage sales and I'm amazed at the things that some people sell that were once prized family possessions. I don't suppose we worry about that when we're dead, Ilona! You never know, as the years go by your kids might change their mind and end up fighting over it!
Thank you for relating your memories! Your story brought back long ago put aside thoughts of The Family Circle magazine and how my own mother tried, in her own way, to be nurturing and gave her only daughter "girly" gifts of " stuffies", along with hard plastic trolls with funky hair and accessories. My mom's only creativity was in her making great food and I have kept many of her recipes to recreate the magic for my own family.
Dementia took her mind, memories, mobility and eventually her life more than a few years ago, after Covid had separated us for several months, causing us to lose precious time together. I was with her in her final moments and though I've stored many of the things she gave me tucked away in a footlocker, I hold the memories of how her thoughtfulness made me feel in my heart.
Your memories of your mom have touched the cockles of my heart! Thank you. ❤️
Oh Joyce, it's heartbreaking that people were separated from their loved ones, both my parents were in a care home during Covid so I couldn't visit to see them, it was so upsetting. I hope the post brought back some happy memories too, your mum and mine would have probably been able to have a good natter about The Family Circle! Thank you for commenting and letting me know about your mum, it means a lot. Thank you. x
Thank you so much for sharing this! I loved it and will read it again. It brought back many very similar memories for me, including losing my mum to Alzheimers. Jemima is so beautiful, the precision of those clothes etc is amazing!
I had a favourite doll, with a hard head (plaster?) and a boy tried to kiss me on the way to school and I screamed and dropped her, her head cracked! How I cried and cried.
Luckily, someone stuck it together for me and she lived a few more years after that!
I used to be a prolific knitter, until arthritis put a stop to that and how I wish I’d hung on to some of those cardigans and jumpers! My husband doesn’t miss the click clack of needles, though, 😂
Thank you so much for your lovely comment, Janet. It seem's everyone has, or certainly knows somebody, who has lost a loved one to dementia. I wish they would find a cure for it, it's such an awful disease and I am sorry to hear you lost your mum to it too. I have arthritis in my hands as well, it's not too painful at the moment but my hands are becoming very knobbly. This age thing has a lot to answer for! I'm so pleased you enjoyed the post, thank you again for commenting. x
Finally finished listening to this …… it really resonates with me. I found it very moving……. thank you ❤️
I'm so glad you listened to it Shirley, thank you for letting me know as it difficult to gauge who is listening and whether it is worth the time recording the voice over. If people are listening that's great as it inspires me to keep going. I'm glad you found a connection to it, that certainly makes it worth the effort for me. Thank you. x
What a lovely listen on my walk this morning Lindsey. My mum also used to get Family Circle and I think it is responsible for my love of cooking and crafts. Xx
Thank you so much Gina, it's nice to know it has been listened to as you are the first one to mention the VoiceOver. I'm feeling a bit like you were a couple of weeks ago, a little deflated and not sure if people are liking what I am writing about etc, etc. It seems so hard to keep everyone happy!
Just need to keep yourself happy Lindsey. As long as you enjoy writing etc keep doing it. Personally I rather like listening to you speak and listened to another one this morning on my dog walk!
I'm so pleased you like them, Gina and thank you so much for letting me know. Like most people I'm not too keen on my voice but I am getting used to doing them now and actually enjoy reading, I feel like I'm reading a bed time story all over again! I'm a bit more up-beat today, last week I had a handful of subscribers leave so I think I panicked a bit and wondered what I had done wrong but realised I can't please all the people all the time so I'm just going to carry on as I am. Thank you, I do wonder why we do this to ourselves sometimes!
Such a great blast from the past Lindsay. Thank you so much :-) I was right here with you related to your references to White Horses TV programme and The horse with no name....
Magical xx
Oh, thank you Lynne. That White Horses theme tune has always stuck with me. I was horse mad when I was young, I read and watched anything with horses - the Horse of the Year Show was my annual TV highlight - I can still remember the theme tune to that too! Thank you so much for commenting, have a lovely weekend. x
What a beautiful heartfelt ‘memoir’ Lindsey. Such a lovely read. My mum was not a great knitter nor seamstress but she did pass on to me a love of cooking and gardening. And I remember Family Circle magazine too 😊xx
Thank you so much, Annie, I'm so pleased you liked it. It is quite difficult writing something each week that everyone will enjoy. I wish I had kept a few of my mum's Family Circles, they would be quite fun to look back on now. Do you remember when everything seemed to be set in aspic jelly!?
Haha! Yes! It seemed very sophisticated at the time 😂
Your lovely post brought back many happy memories of my own mum, Lindsey! Like yours, she was a very good knitter and I was also fascinated by the way she could do it in one fluid motion with only the occasional glance at her work. She also made clothes for my sister and I, and embroidered table cloths, cushion covers and tray cloths, sometimes using transfers given away with magazines. She would call herself a 'ordinary, everyday cook' but she was actually a brilliant cook and could make the most sublime pastry, which I have never been able to replicate! All those skills, yet they were just seen as normal tasks for so many women of her generation. Making clothes was a way of saving money, aside from anything else. Your mum sounds lovely - as mine was, and I can't imagine the pain of losing her to dementia. My mum had myriad health problems in later life, but, happily, retained her mental faculties to the end. Thank you for sharing your memories! Xxx
Your mum sounds very much like mine, Sue, a multi-talented busy bee! When I think about it now, I honestly don't know how she got the time to do everything she did, and there was me making her do more knitting!. My mum used to make me clothes too, my dad used to cut the pattern and my mum sewed them up. They both ended up in a care home, my mum had vascular dementia and my dad Alzheimers, so not a good ending for either of them but I like to remember them before that as they were both such lovely people and I miss them dearly. Thank you so much for your wonderful comment, don't give up on the pastry! There's actually blue sky here this morning for a change, it's been so chilly lately, I've got the heating and the fire on. Hope everything is good with you, I passed by your old house yesterday and thought of you. I also found a video on my phone of me telling the story of collecting your cabinet, I was laughing all the way through - I'll have to see if I can send it over to you, it might make you laugh. Lots of love. x
I would love to see the video about the cabinet! We remember watching you go down our drive with it strapped on top of the van and wondering if you'd ever get it home! Lots of love x
I tried to email it Sue but it was too big so I've put in on Instagram a minute a ago - it still makes me laugh!
My mom was dedicated to needlepoint, and one of her masterpieces hangs in our guest room. The picture is of lilacs in a vase. It took her many years to accomplish. I don't think my kids will keep it after I die, and I hate to think of her work discarded. I guess it's a lesson in everything is temporary.
I go to a lot of garage sales and I'm amazed at the things that some people sell that were once prized family possessions. I don't suppose we worry about that when we're dead, Ilona! You never know, as the years go by your kids might change their mind and end up fighting over it!
Thank you for relating your memories! Your story brought back long ago put aside thoughts of The Family Circle magazine and how my own mother tried, in her own way, to be nurturing and gave her only daughter "girly" gifts of " stuffies", along with hard plastic trolls with funky hair and accessories. My mom's only creativity was in her making great food and I have kept many of her recipes to recreate the magic for my own family.
Dementia took her mind, memories, mobility and eventually her life more than a few years ago, after Covid had separated us for several months, causing us to lose precious time together. I was with her in her final moments and though I've stored many of the things she gave me tucked away in a footlocker, I hold the memories of how her thoughtfulness made me feel in my heart.
Your memories of your mom have touched the cockles of my heart! Thank you. ❤️
Oh Joyce, it's heartbreaking that people were separated from their loved ones, both my parents were in a care home during Covid so I couldn't visit to see them, it was so upsetting. I hope the post brought back some happy memories too, your mum and mine would have probably been able to have a good natter about The Family Circle! Thank you for commenting and letting me know about your mum, it means a lot. Thank you. x
Thank you so much for sharing this! I loved it and will read it again. It brought back many very similar memories for me, including losing my mum to Alzheimers. Jemima is so beautiful, the precision of those clothes etc is amazing!
I had a favourite doll, with a hard head (plaster?) and a boy tried to kiss me on the way to school and I screamed and dropped her, her head cracked! How I cried and cried.
Luckily, someone stuck it together for me and she lived a few more years after that!
I used to be a prolific knitter, until arthritis put a stop to that and how I wish I’d hung on to some of those cardigans and jumpers! My husband doesn’t miss the click clack of needles, though, 😂
Thanks again, Lindsey.
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Thank you so much for your lovely comment, Janet. It seem's everyone has, or certainly knows somebody, who has lost a loved one to dementia. I wish they would find a cure for it, it's such an awful disease and I am sorry to hear you lost your mum to it too. I have arthritis in my hands as well, it's not too painful at the moment but my hands are becoming very knobbly. This age thing has a lot to answer for! I'm so pleased you enjoyed the post, thank you again for commenting. x