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Monday 21 March 2011

RIP Thelma

Just a short posting today. For those of you who read my early blog postings, will know that at that time my partner was Thelma and I spent my days down in Dorset. We met in 2000 on a holiday in Italy and despite the age difference, she was 17 years older than me, in many many ways she was a lot younger than me. Back in 2004 she contracted small cell Lymphoma and was given a good chance of recovery. Sadly this wasn't to be and on Friday 19th March she passed away peacefully I'm told by her daughter. Thelma and I spilt up in 2009 and while we weren't together we still kept in touch occasionally.

She was a wonderfully up beat person who had had a lot of disastrous things happen to her over the years, but each time she came through smiling and laughing, laughing her infectious laugh. The last time I spoke to her she was more worried about the snow and getting to hospital than her treatment, which summed up Thelma up so well.

RIP Thelma, you were one of life's gems.

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  1. Goosey21 March 2011 at 18:45

    How very sad, it's still a shock even though you wern't together any more. Best wishes, Lyn

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  2. Ragged Robin22 March 2011 at 00:03

    What sad news, Andrew but you have paid a lovely tribute to Thelma. Best wishes Caroline.

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  3. Yoke,22 March 2011 at 09:05

    She would be very happy reading this, Andrew. I just lost my husband of 30 years in January, so I'm in a similar sense of loss.

    Irish beliefs are that Butterflies represent the souls of those who have passed on. I think it is a wonderful way of keeping them alive in your mind as you see one.
    A Common Blue makes me think of my Elly, my mum who died 2 years ago. Francis liked the Red Admiral. I'm already looking forward to see my first.

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  4. The Wessex Reiver22 March 2011 at 10:40

    Thanks Lyn

    Thanks Caroline

    Thanks Yoke - so sorry to hear about your husband. I love that idea though that butterflies are the soul of the departed, for Thelma that would be a Brimstone as whe always said spring was here when it arrived.

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  5. Dartford Warbler22 March 2011 at 21:12

    What sad news for you. Thelma sounds a lovely person. I shall think of you both when I see the Brimstones out in the Forest lanes.

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  6. The Wessex Reiver23 March 2011 at 11:04

    Thank you Dartford Warbler, I hope you see a brimstone soon.

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