It’s Thursday, July 19 and I am about to begin colouring in my garden. I have donned by new gardening gloves and am busy working in my fledgling hillside garden with a good friend, who has brought a box full of seaside daisies, which we hope will cover the bare ground up here. The hillside […]
Today is my first birthday since Olivier died and I have been dreading it. Usually Olivier would greet me with “Joyeux anniversaire cherie’’ and hand me his gift while I was still in bed. I would kiss him ardently and unwrap his offering in great excitement. It took a good three years for him to […]
Today is my birthday and it is also my only sister’s birthday. We were both born today, July 15, but 16 years apart. She is my baby sister, which is why I have invited myself to her house for dinner. My sister’s house is in darkness when I arrive for our birthday dinner and I am […]
I am trying hard to nudge out grief from my mind by paying attention to the joy of life around me. There is delight simply by walking down my street with Oscar on his lead sniffing at every blade of grass and piddling to claim his territory. It is strange to do it alone, but […]
Today, June 23, is Olivier’s birthday and a strange thing happened. Friends Ruth and Graham Bettany invited me to visit them at Oakbank in the Adelaide Hills to keep my mind off the significance of the first big “anniversaire” since his death six weeks ago. Ruth took me to Avalon, a new purpose-built cafe in […]
It was C.S. Lewis who stated on the death of his wife that “I never knew grief felt so like fear’’. However, I would say my grief is like a juggernaut, a frightening feeling which squeezes out all joy, happiness and any sense of normality in my life. Instead of happy emotions – contentment and […]
my idea of a superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors
actress Bette Midler
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