Thanks for the kind words
I feel for you Mrs Pepperpot (I loved those stories). The grief will feel less intense with time but it does feel so all-enveloping at first.
It is ok to feel like an orphan at any age. I do when I see my friends talk about their parents. I'm 42 and most of them have not experienced that kind of loss yet.
This is the place where if someone says they know how you feel, they really do. I gave her a beautiful funeral, my final job for her, that's a comfort too. Im so grateful that we were able to go to the end with her at home, I have no
regrets. She leaves behind 3 geese, 14 hens, 3 cockerals,1 duck and Tip, the
collie dog. Oh and me, her only daughter and eldest brother and favourite
brother (mums not mine) although he has rather grown on me the last 5 years,
Grandchildren and a great grand daughter. The invisible brother who lived next door never did come in to see her, nor his wife or their kids, none of them came to her funeral either, it was a bit awkward at the funeral with people asking me "wheres Jeff then" I just said he couldn't help himself really as he was born without a heart ! Needless to say, As far as im concerned he no longer exists to me. Thanks to all here for the support over the last 5 years. Will it be ok to pop by now and then just to offer support ? X