What?

Does anyone know what these flowers are. It's a climbing plant rather like an Ivy. I won the seeds in a raffle but forgot to save the packet with the name on.
sheila x

Goodbye Pat

Yesterday I said a final goodbye to my sister Pat. It was very dignified and lots of family and friends attended. I think we gave her a good send off although I can't quite believe that I am never going to see her again.
Sheila xx

the perfect rose

The perfect rose for a perfect sister

A hard day.

It was hard day yesterday. First we went to the burial of Naomi's ashes. Her grave is quite near to my mothers, to charlie and to various cousins. It was difficult enough but Samia's distress was harrowing. however we got through it somehow and then we went to a pub for lunch.During the meal it was hard to look at Val who wouldn't eat anything and looked so ill and frail. I don't know how he is going to get through all this.Lisa came to the pub. Everyone is worried about her. she is not in a good place mentally. She has lost so much weight that she is hardly recognisable.
After the meal we went to see Pat. She is going down fast now.I have been determined not to cry but as I was leaving I had the thought that I might not see her again. I am racked with pain at the thought of her dying when I am not there but what can I do? She hugged me and told me she loved me. I hope she will not suffer too much.
It's difficult to write this but I thought it would help me to say it to someone other then my sisters who are all just as heartbroken as I am.
sheila xx

Toffee/Coffee buns

Graham says I always cook for five thousand so I just made a small batch of buns. they have bits of toffee in them and coffee iceing.
Nothing much is happening here on the prairie. We wrote new wills and had them witnessed yesterday.
I have an appointment at the diabetic clinic on Thursday where they hope to give me a new wonder drug! We shall see?
On Friday we go to Sheffield to the burial of Naomi's ashes and then of course we shall go to see Pat. I am being given daily updates on how she is but I am ready to drop everything and go up to Sheffield if needs be.
The weather is nice and all the flowers are in bloom but we really do need some rain.
Sheila X

just to make Gina jealous!

Guess whats for pudding!

PATS FLOWERS

These are all flowers that Pat gave us when we first moved here.

to Sheffield

We went to Sheffield again yesterday, our third time in so many weeks, and always it seems we are visiting for the wrong reason. This time we went to visit my younger sister Pat who is in hospital having just been told that she is terminally ill with Ovarian Cancer. my mother died of the same thing ten years ago. Pat looked so ill and frail that I hardly recognised her. I am amazed at how calm she is and how accepting of her fate. She told me that she is ready to go now and how she longed to be with our mother..I am absolutely devastated, as are we all, but she is adamant that she wants no weeping and wailing. I don't think I can promise her that. Poor Val and Lisa are in a terrible state and I feel powerless to help them.
I am not in the mood for blogging. More later.
Sheila x