A sad,sad day.

I woke this morning to a phone call from Lynne, Ryans mum, "Shannon, can you come over please".

"Lynne its 6.30 in the morning, what the f**k is wrong.

"Please Shannon, come over, he's dead."

I put the phone down, got dressed and headed over.

Ron, Jo, my next door neighbour's husband, had died in the night, a massive heart attack.

Lynne had been over there since 2.30am. He was a fit, healthy man and it was totally unexpected. He was a lovely man, gentle and fun. I enjoyed spending time in his company, although I have to say I was generally imbibing a bottle or two, but he was a good man, a good husband and a good neighbour.

I went round to Jo's to "pay my respects". Her son, Josh opened the door, Jo was in the hallway and once she saw it was me she told Josh to shut the door.

I was devestated. I know we havent been on the best of terms these last few months, but I never expected that.

Luckily the hours past and Jo came round to mine, we hugged and I attempted to express how sad I was. I did some shopping for her, the mundane always helps and I told her I was there for her if she needed me.

It made me realise how lucky I was to have the people around me who I have. Im constanly holding Dylan thinking "what if".

Another fun weekend in Cumbria.

The title says it all, and I hate to repeate myself, but we did have such a gorgeous weekend. Joji, as always a lovely hostess, we saw cows and fed horses, we even helped with a rockery.

Dylan loves being with Jo, we spent a great rainy afternoon in a small cafe that had a soft play area.







I want to recreate the muriels they had on the walls in Dylans bedroom.





Monday morning Shaun, or Saun as Dylan knows him, was home to play and play we did.



We went to a farm that had a corn maze and we stode round the maze with great aplomb, being dinosaurs and tigers, we got lost and found ourselves, we had so much fun.

We even saw pigs....



Its boring to say it but I love being in Cumbria with Shaun and Jo, I always feel so bloody relaxed, there is never any time I feel like being anything other than myself.

Here it is.

I have to admit to feeling scared of blogging, its been so long and I just didnt know how to put everything down and make it worth while, so Ive done it this way...

Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com

I promise to be much better with my blogging from now on in.