Life goes on

A year ago Today I walked down a chilly corridor in a single storey outhouse in a hospital car park at the end of which I was made to glow in the dark, so to speak.

This morning my view was far better at the start of the day.

 Looking West from Aberaeron Beach, not quite like most beaches but there's stones and some sand but only at LWS!

Actually, not quite the start of the day as it began with an email from my friend, Terry in NZ who had his Whipple a couple of weeks ago and awaits the start of chemo imminently.

Today we drive some 60 miles and plant crocus bulbs on a hillside overlooking Mumbles Light and lifeboat station. The bulbs will lie directly in front of his headstone the back of which depicts a copy of a tattoo and a verse from the book of Proverbs which sums life up most eloquently.

Today Paul would have been 37.

Once the bulbs are planted we will adjourn to here, Ripples. An ice cream shop on the seafront next door to where he once lived as a student with great friends and even more bikes.

Appropriate, too that the name is on a bike and that his son has developed his Dads liking for ice cream ...... and flakes, of course.

A far better day than a year ago.

We will then drive back to Aberaeron

Not all pain responds to pain killers but life does go on and for that I am thankful.

I must reply to an email. But not tonight.