Tag: loss
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WPC Numbers: War Memorials (World War I and II)
Today’s entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Numbers is just a few of the photos I collected around Europe showing the numbers of people who died in the two world wars. In Britain, every town, every village, every city has its war memorial. It is a constructed object, such as a sculpture or a stone alcove, […]
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Photographs of Salzburg, Austria
After a two day car drive to Salzburg, Austria, I arrived with a big list of things to do in Salzburg. I was expecting it to be cold, but instead I found Salzburg to be a mountain-surrounded retreat bathed in brilliant sunshine with clear air and perfect light for photography: This big gold ball was a mystery, […]
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A Bad Day For Music: Et Tu, Bowie?
Wow so I was just checking my Twitter and saw that David Bowie’s death was announced today. He died yesterday, at home, aged 69. Cause of death: Liver cancer. It seems to be shaping up to be a shit year for musician mortality; it was only this morning I was watching Lemmy’s memorial service on […]
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RIP Banacek: Rabbit, person, and our dearest companion.
Sunday was Banacek’s funeral. We buried him in a cardboard rabbit carrier, with his favourite toys; the chewy hemp carrot, the chewy sticks, his first cuddly rabbit (stuffy), as well as his drinking bowl. We rested him on a piece cut from his favourite blue carpet out of his bedroom, then we tucked him in […]
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Banacek bunny died at 8am 2nd Jan 2016
Very sad times; we are struggling to even comprehend how this happened. Cleo is doing her best to make sure he gets a good send-off, we will have his funeral tomorrow in the garden unless it’s too flooded. This is pretty much all I have to say about it:
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Katie’s Funeral
On Tuesday, I put Fifer on his rabbit lead because the carrier was at the vets with Katie. There was a spare carrier, but two boxes and a husband don’t fit in my car safely. It turns out Fifer much prefers to wear his harness and sit on someone’s knee for car rides than to […]
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Katie getting put to sleep at 6:20 this evening
I got a call from the vets at 12:00 this afternoon telling me that Katie has split her femur all the way up and that it would require extensive surgery to pin and repair, and that a surgical specialist would have to come to do it. The X ray shows that she has very severe […]
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The Easter Bunny
Trigger Warning: This story may trigger feelings that you need to help animals in some way, shape or form. My earliest memories are of my mother, my brothers and sisters. We had shared a womb. So comfortable and soft, I felt perfectly safe and happy with them. Sometimes we would push each other out of […]