Juni's Magick Brownies....

Well done Glatt!

Thor's new hockey team looks like it's going to be a really good match for us and he's going to get a shirt with the logo of the pro team that play at the same arena (who we like to watch/support) and he had a great practice today :D

Tonight, we buried Dad's ashes, and planted a cherryblossom tree in my brother's garden.

It's a stretch of woodland at the back of the house that leads into the wider woods. There are areas set out for seating (logs and sunk chairs, a swinging chair, couple of hammocks. A vegetable patch and ferret runs. A caged house with climbing trees for Darwin, the rescue squirrel (he can come and go as he pleases and has apparently acquired a mate). There's a tree house with a little observatory platform. Lanterns dotted around. A campfire in a clearing. And now a cherryblossom in another clearing

It's a lovely setting.

It'll attract bees. Which would please dad no end. Loved his bees *smiles*.

Mart had already prepped a spot; and we planted the tree and buried his ashes by moonlight and campfire. Then sat around on logs and in hammocks, drinking wine (juice for the little-un) and baileys, chatting and laughing. Me, Mum, my bro and his wife and their two girls. And Dad, of course, in a way :P

It was lovely. And given how much of a night-owl dad was, it was right too.

That sounds really nice Dana. Peaceful.

How beautiful, Dana! I'm sure your Dad would have liked it.

Oh it was:) and he really would. :)

Well done!

It sounds like a nice location. Peaceful, and close to family. It's nice.

Thanks you lot. :) It's still a struggle some days, but I think I'm pretty lucky.

Dana, that sounds just right!

Ah Dani I'm pleased.
He was loved, he is remembered and his remains are somewhere special by his own reckoning.

I'm not sure what's making me happy today, but I really am.
Perhaps just Autumn - my favourite season and where I'd live all year if I could.

Walked into town even though I was tempted to get the bus - within 100 yards I was so glad I had. Exercise, weather, money in my pocket (even though it was all allocated for bills and household shopping) all combined to put a smile on my face.

Now I have full cupboards, a shop bought sandwich for lunch (my one indulgence - I didn't have my traditional payday McDonalds breakfast!) and enough staples in the cupboard to last another month.

Oh and Mum & Dad have been lusting after something shown in a TV advert without knowing what it is. I've identified it as Eggs Benedict for them - it's really only an eating out breakfast here, and comes in far lower than the traditional Full English. I've offered to make it for them for lunch one day. So Mum is once again looking at me as the harbinger of all things sophisticated and cosmopolitan. I like that.

Oh, oh - and I've found my winter jacket!
It's in Tesco (supermarket) so it's reasonably priced. I doubt I'd find anything so nice on eBay, especially once you factor in postage. And anyway it's exactly what I want. Picture below, although I'll be buying it in fuschia pink.
Did I mention I love it?
Going to save up.

I wore my cape all last winter, but my internal temp was screwed up by being so very overweight and by drinking. I might feel the cold a little more this year as I continue to lose weight and stay off the sauce. So I'm going to buy it in a size 18 (tried it on, buttons nicely over a vest but is a little snug yet) as an incentive.

It'll be the first new winter coat/ jacket I've bought this century.

Here it is in green, the fuschia has black buttons.

Sounds beautiful Dana - When I die tell someone to do that for me, I'd really like to bee around sorta.

We did something very similar for my brother. A gathering of friends and family scattered his ashes on a hill that he was very fond of. There's nowhere else he'd rather be, of that I'm sure.

My father is stargazing amongst the red rocks of Sedona. Someday, when it's her turn, my mother will join him.