Love Charlie

Mom, mother, mommy what ever you call her, I hope we can all say ours is special, the love and care they give us as a child, the guidance and protection they offer as we grow up and to lose this special person is a terrible blow. I write this on the day before my mom's funeral, it keeps me busy and pleases me to know that people might read this and they too will feel the love she shared. Smiling Teenage Mom My mom, Doris Evelyn Powell died on the 18th December 2022 at the age of 71, not a grand age by any means, I will eternally miss her and perhaps writing this is helping me with my grief. Evelyn as she liked to be called didn't want to buried, didn't even want a plaque, mom as with my nan wanted us to remember her in whatever way we wanted to, after my nan, Doris (again) gained her wings, my mom bought flowers on the anniversary of her passing, something I intend to do from now on. I didn't want mom to pass without being remembered and so this 'post' will in s...

Visiting Weymouth I am going to start blogging about the towns and cities that I have visited on my travels around the UK, to those that live there, most of these places don't seem that special and true these days there are very few destinations that can offer something totally unique to the traveller but in their own right each town and city is special. A popular 'calling' for me is the coast, growing up in the midlands, the furthest you can get from the seaside in the Uk, it's not surprising that the watery shores of our fair isle have always interested me. The connection to family holidays when growing up is obvious and so the association with enjoyment and happiness will probably be forever buried in my psyche. Most recently I spent my first holiday at the popular seaside town of Weymouth, nestled on an attractive stretch of the Jurassic Coast in Dorset. Weymouth I had always been told was a nice place to visit, no one I had spoken to had ever told me that they...