It was a strange day and to be honest although it was the 12th and the day Mikey left us, Thursday was without question the most miserable and the most wretched.
Tim was so pleased the Diana called round and has spent the last two days recalling snippets of their conversation. How kind of her, as always!! i love her to pieces. A very true friend. You know the sort that even if you hadn't have seen them in years, they would drop everything if you was in trouble. A rare and precious gift is friendship like that.
We went to Sherringham yesterday and took Duke. My word i spent the whole journey whittling about him that i had no thought for anything else!! He made it though. We had a quiet reflective time and our lunch out. Yep the diet was out as well!!!
It was strange to see the people in this part of the world out enjoying the tranquil sea air and sunshine whilst other parts of the country were torn apart by rioters. How odd. It was as if we were in another country. We discussed why it was happening, and a comment was, look those children are with their parents. Is that it?? Can it be as simple as all that. I don't know.
Tom phoned me today and chatted for ages, his first words were, i thought i would ring cos its a year today! Tom has been so thoughtful about all the anniversaries and just checking if we are OK. It was always Mikey that would be so thoughtful and Tom bless him never really bothered, and yet now he is always on the phone. Lovely and means so much to me.
It was the Perseid meteor night!! and decide to go to Wicken Fen to watch for the stars. A fitting end to a very special day. Tim didn't want to go but my niece Joni said she would come. It would also give me chance to try out the camera a bit more!!
I collected Jo about 2345 hrs and off we drove into the night. Tim and Duke tucked up in bed. Us out on the road with a flask and hand torch!! oh and a route map.
Wicken Fen is part of the national trust and is one of the top 25 places in the country to star watch. They have an area purposely for viewing.
There was surprisingly a lot of traffic on the roads, and i was so grateful to have had the laser treatment on my eyes because at least i could see where i was going.
We reached Wicken and then went down this lonely lane and found a car park! yep this was it.
We really must be mad two women out on their own in the middle of the country, miles from anywhere and pitch black!!
We got all our gear together, looked at the map and off we went. Well you couldn't see a thing! Joni had a headlamp on which was helpful because we could read the instructions/directions of the route. It was helpful when it read, there will be trees and shrubs on you left!!! we were in the country, yep plenty of trees and shrubs. The next instruction was regarding a wide footbridge over water with no handrails, keep to the path because of the water either side. Oh we had gone wrong. Footbridge yes, handrails, yes!!! wrong path and wrong bridge. MAYBE NOT SUCH A GOOD IDEA!!! We should have checked it out in the day time but we were not the only ones apparently lost!!! We turned round, looking skyward for shooting stars and yes we were lucky we did see some. The moon was out and very bright and the clouds were keeping away. Still we needed the moon to go behind a small cloud just to make it darker still! Ooops be careful what you wish for.
Barking, is it a dog or a fox? nope definitely a dog. The biggest retriever ever came loping towards us. Poor Joni, i crept behind her and left her to face the hound first!!! Phew, friendly!!! still it shot off again into the bushes.
We spent an hour and a half looking skyward and trying out our cameras and got some amazing pictures. Joni took one of me and it is most odd, there is a beam of light coming from the camera into my eyes and a white haze all around the camera and my hands. Joni has sent it by e mail but i cant copy it it off so she will pop it on a disc and let me have it. I will post it as soon as i can! very bizarre.
We got home at 0230hrs and will do it again next year!
Mikey would have loved trying out his camera here, and probably got lots better pictures than us, still here is a few.
Today has been quiet and we haven't done a thing, but I'm all ready for the morning and hope we do well. I'm not sure really how i will do, i just hope i can finish the race!! Its come quickly after Thursday but as i have continually been saying, tomorrow is another day
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