What mood are you in and why?

[Gemmill 49415]

Looking forward to Broccoli Head Jr.

 

Pleased to hear there have been some nice moments for you in a very shitty time. 

 

My gran died a year ago, and my mam is taking the house, but it has sat for a year while they sell theirs etc. All of my gran's stuff still in it. Anyway, the time has come in the last month to clear it out, so she's been there with my sister, obviously an unpleasant thing to do, as you'll know. Loads of memories and their entire lives in cupboards and drawers. 

 

Heartbreaking shit like taking their dressing gowns off the back of the bedroom door - my granddad had died a few years earlier, but my gran had never wanted to take his down. 

 

Anyway, at the back of one of the cupboards was a bag with an old handbag in it, and a note that my Gran had written to remind her that my mam and her (long dead) brother had saved up for weeks to buy this for her when they were teenagers. My mam was in bits, but she also feels like it was her final gift from her mam that she obviously treasured this thing for 60 years, that my mam assumed would have been thrown out years ago. 

[wykikitoon 22573]

A perm 😂 

 

It's a shit emotional roller coaster time but I know when my mam and dad passed I still found lots of laughs happened in the week(s) too. 

 

At my mams wake a bloke came up to me and was apologising for not getting down to Leeds earlier we got talking about mam and then onto football. My dad came over talked to him and he went to the bar for a drink. I asked who it was he said 'oh it's one of your uncles' 😂 oh right. Mam was 1 of 14 the mad catholic bastards 😂