General Chat

I know it's Fathers Day today - but I saw this in the Bereavement Column of my home town paper on the Internet. Hope the family concerned do not mind me reprinting it. I felt I had to pass it on.

My Mum. If you have a mother love her while you may, Because we wish with all our hearts, we had our Mum today. Memories of you we will always keep, To us you were someone special, a mum so kind and true, You will never be forgotten, because we thought the world of you. No one sees the broken heart that lies behind the smile, No one knows the loneliness that's with us all the while, You were a mum so good and true, Kind and cheery as everyone knew, A wonderful nature, a heart of gold, No better Mum, this world could hold. My heart aches with sadness, secret tears still flow, What it meant to lose you, no-one will ever know, If you have a mother, guard her with great care, For you never know her value, until you see her vacant chair. The love we shared together, the happiness we knew, Will keep you ever near Mum, until we come to you. Nothing in this world could ever replace, Our loving mum with her smiling face, Someone to turn to, kind and true, One in a million that was you.

lovely and oh so true.

do you know when i was feeling my feet as a teenager in the early 1950,s i had the temerity to confront my Mum, she was a hard lady ,but so full of love for her kids and hubby, I felt so hard done by(,didnt we all when we were teenagers) that I would cheek her and then run and lock myself in the loo. she would bang on the door and yell at me ' you wait you cow!! I,m telling you dad when he gets home' meant i had to wait for several hours for her to calm down before i could come out and hide myself somewhere else in the house. ( a big victorian house on five floors). Well she alawys said you wait till you get older and see how it feels.,and its true. Mum passed in 1980 and i didnt know just how much she would be missed. To explain, i was a WW2 evacuee aged 2½ in 1939,came home in early 1946 and from being the baby I had 1 more sister and two brothers,was always resentful i came home cos I loved my foster mum & dad so much,had bonded with them,I did resettle at home but always felt a bit apart from the family. i didnt know how much i loved my mum and dad till pops passed in 1975. We all felt VERY protective of Mum then cos she took it hard. When we lost Mum in 1980 I was devistated still dream of her today and regret my teenage outbursts,But then i guess that all part of growing up. Shirley

What a lovely verse Shirley dont worry we all did the same thing to our mums and got the same response,wait til dad gets home, thank god my worked long shifts and mum calmed down quickly lol Jan

I still have my Mum's autograph book from her childhood and it has a verse in written by her Mum, my Grandmother, who I never met as she died when my Mum was 16. It is the same as part of the verse quoted already: If you have a Mother, treasure her with care, For you will not feel the want of her til yo see her vacant chair. It always made me feel so guilty, not sure why, I wasn't that bad as a youngster altho my Mum was very protective.