So, today should be the 1st birthday of my niece Iona. Those of you who’ve been following this blog for a while will have read everything that our family, especially Jonnie and Susie went through.
It was a hellish time while the medical staff at Yorkhill tried to make Iona better, sadly she died 7 weeks [...]
Hope all of you had a good Christmas. I certainly had a very enjoyble day, from being woken at 8am by Linda’s excited parents, to an awesome dinner where I ate loads, to trying out my new Gorilla Tripod. We were notciably absent from any sort of Church activity :-/ I’m ny required to do [...]
It’s been a wierd week.
Burying Iona at the start of the week (see previous post), beginning to deal with the emotions and thoughts that have come out of that whole crappy stiuation, dealing with some of the practical issues that needed dealt with, seeing friends and family, thinking of Andy Simpson, I guy I used [...]
We laid Iona to rest today. Was a minging day weatherwise, and a sad day otherwise. i knew today was going to be hard, but I hadn’t realised how hard.
We had a wee memorial service in Jonnie’s parents house. Jonnie and Susie had arranged the coffee table so that there were pictures of Iona, a [...]
So, Iona’s funeral is on saturday morning, just for close family……..I’m dreading it. It’s a wee graveside service lead by a minister Jonnie (and I) used to work with as youthworker and who is close to both Jonnie and Susie. One of Jonnie’s sisters will have just flown in the day before from St Johns, [...]
Wee Iona’s funeral is on Saturday in the morning. It’s just for close family and will take place round her burial plot in Penicuik. Jonnie and Susie came through this morning from Glasgow, we spent the morning with them and Susie&Jonnie’s parents. It was such a hard morning, no-one knew what to say so we [...]
Iona passed away just after 3:30pm today.
Linda and I had rushed down from Aberdeen as soon as we heard that her support machines were being turned off, but made it just a few minutes to late to see her one last time before she went. We did get to hold her and say goodbye this [...]
It’s wierd the things that pop into your head, and when they decide to. For instance, my beautiful niece is in hospital and struggling, I came on to blog more about that, but I just can’t get the words out. It’s so awful(understatement!) whats happening with Iona, Jonnie and Susie. I just can’t see where [...]
So, I’ve spent the last we while thinking of things I want to blog about. Which of my thouhts do I think others would want to read? I had all sorts of cool topics in mind, what it means to be cool(inspired by Miss Whyte), more on mark yaconelli’s talks at NYA, my week at [...]