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• JOURNAL 70

  26 January, 2016

  Hello Sweetheart, In our journey together over those 50+ years, you often observed (complained!?) that you felt left… [more]

• JOURNAL 69

  25 January, 2016

  Hello Sweetheart, In a recent letter to you I made a reference to “the deep well of grief”. While… [more]

• JOURNAL 68

  18 January, 2016

  My darling, “Well, today is your birthday!” OR “Well, today would have been your… [more]

• JOURNAL 67

  11 January, 2016

  My Darling, I’ve just returned home from having lunch with D & H. It’s Sunday and guess who the… [more]

• JOURNAL 66

  3 January, 2016

  My Darling, Well, Christmas 2015 is now part of our history. I confess that I was not looking forward to this event… [more]

• JOURNAL 65

  24 December, 2015

  Hello my Love, “Your first Christmas without your beloved Bev…’ So many people have referred to… [more]

• JOURNAL 64

  21 December, 2015

  Hello Sweetheart, With Christmas and Its associated celebrations just just a few days away, I have been busy… [more]

• JOURNAL 63

  18 December, 2015

  Hi Sweetheart, Every day in seemingly countless ways I am surrounded by memories of you. I guess there would be… [more]

• JOURNAL 62

  14 December, 2015

  My Darling, It has been a while since I have had a really good cry. Well, this afternoon I’m making up for that… [more]

• JOURNAL 61

  11 December, 2015

  Hello, my love, They say that Christmas time is a time of engaging with grief in a new way for those who have lost… [more]

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• JOURNAL 84

  84 To the love of my life, Hello Darling, I need to tell you about a conversation that I’m having with our three children at this point in time. I am missing you VERY much. That deep sense of loss becomes a gathering point for my fragile emotions. Things seem to be mounting up…read more

• JOURNAL 83

  83 Hello Sweetheart, This week marked our first anniversary of being separated by death. As I recall the words of the wedding vows include “til death us do part”. There’s something stark about that phrase. Something inevitable. So, did I do anything special? Well, we…read more

• JOURNAL 82

  JOURNAL 82 If you were to read our journal entry for this day last year, you would read the following Today's instalment for “Our Journey Through The Valley" is the 125th and the final offering concerning this 3 year saga Last Sunday morning at about 1.55 am in the Nursing Home…read more

• JOURNAL 81

  JOURNAL 81 To my life’s partner How I miss you!!, As I’ve indicated in the last couple of letters, sweetheart, I am reading what I can from our combined journal of 12 months ago. This takes on greater significance the closer we get to April 12th. I have to say, love, that I…read more

• JOURNAL 80

  Our Journey Through The Valley The regular readers of Barnabas will probably sense that we are coming up to the first anniversary of Bev’s death – 12 th April, 2015. I found myself wondering recently what were we writing in our journal 12 months ago when things were…read more