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Our pick of your best letters, pictures & wise words…
More park life!
• While my husband and I were out for a walk recently, the sound of laughter coming from a children’s playground was so infectious that we moved closer to investigate.
Imagine our surprise when we saw that all the swings were occupied by elderly ladies.
A coachload on a church outing hadn’t been able to resist the playpark attractions.
Those fun-loving ladies were proof that laughter really is the best medicine around.
Kindness is key
• Your article on how Pet Love is True Love really spoke to me as I’ve just lost the love of my life, Billy, aged 12. Supportive friends make all the difference, those who have dogs themselves particularly understand, but how especially kind it was of my friend, who doesn’t have a dog, to take me to
Billy’s favourite beach for the day and walk along it with me. She checked to see if this would help me and it certainly did. Such empathy and kindness from friends at this time makes life so much brighter. Thank you to them all.
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✪ After my husband died I made his favourite shirts into cushions. Using the fronts as backs, the buttons replaced zips. I had the idea when sending my husband’s clothes to Acorns Hospice shop and, wanting to keep something of his I could cuddle up to, I turned his favourite jumper and two shirts into cushions. I also occasionally spray them with his cologne which I find a great comfort and I hope that other bereaved readers may feel the same way.
Yours says: We love this idea – such a creative way to repurpose sentimental items, as well as giving you something physical to hold and touch. We’d love to hear any other unusual ways readers have memorialised or paid tribute to their loved ones.
No evil here
• This photo was taken recently at my granddaughter’s wedding, of me in the middle, her other grandmother on the right and my sister-in-law. We decided to pose as See No Evil, Speak No Evil and Hear No Evil. Our combined age is over 250 years but we can still enjoy ourselves!
Poetry corner
So, I’ve noticed a change in the start of a sentence So I don’t want to keep you in any suspense But young folk now start every sentence with ‘So’ Which seems to have replaced Innit and I Dunno. What’s your job? ‘So I work in a shop’
‘So I’m a typist’, ‘So I’m training to be a cop’
‘So’ has become a much overused word Like so many words that
I’ve overheard.
But then in my day everything was
