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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Biggie" data-source="post: 365725" data-attributes="member: 24034">I can honestly say that your posts are very good and the 'voice' of your posts is kind and thoughtful. While with my efforts.... a TT member suggested that I wax talking gibberish and then to drive the point home...cut and paste the dictionary definition of 'gibberish'. I mean what is wrong with people! If memory serves  I posted a sweet piece. Issue was that they were the wrong audience. You called it. As a child the woods were a constant and playing our games in the woods was the norm. My perception was that that nothing would change there. For years we played in 'our' woods. The wind carried me away in November 1987, I expected to see what I spent many hours, days, weeks and years playing in. 22 years had passed and things had changed.  Last year I went through some photos taken in the closing days of my secondary school. I texted some images to a friend I met in the first year, and in doing so a belief I held popped into my mind... I believed that I would know my school friend and classmates for ever. After all I saw them everyday for 5 years. From the very last day of school friend and classmates scattered. So sorry to hear this. When we arrived in Basingstoke, we had to move around the town and we lived in 6 different houses.  Dear Mama arrived with 2 young children and a suitcase and she built a mountain. She has achieved what the native folk often fail or never even attempt.  When I'm near or passing  I stop and look at some of the houses that we lived in. Shit holes, shared accommodation with awful people, council housing in a godliness area and then to were we are now. Described by estate agents as "highly desirable" all thanks to Dear Mama and her love for Big Sister and me. So when I am passing previous places we lived,  I understand what she has achieved starting with 2 children and suitcase. The 3 of us have become 5. Her grandchildren reap the reward of her labour but don't know what superhuman effort was required. I am blessed that were are still all here. DFF, I comprehend you losses by knowing that I a great ugliness is on the horizon.  I know that when it arrives Big Sister will be the only person who will be able to pick me up off the floor. Literally and figuratively.</blockquote>

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