Not all anniversaries are happy ones.
An ex neighbour, still a good friend is picking me up at 1.00 to take me to put flowers on his memorial stone and to clean up the blue granite so it sparkles again.
He loved blue, and his maternal grandfather came from Aberdeen, home of granite, so the stone was the best I could do.
As it is August, there is no choir for a month at St. M's and I do not sit in the congregation to take part in a service where I can't sing.
This means no church until Sept.
Soe people find it odd that I choose to miss a whole month rather than attend what for me is not a 'proper' service.
It is after all the singing which is my personal approach to Christianity.
I miss the choir, I miss my other friends in the church and I miss John.
Mercifully Sarah my lovely ex-neighbour understands my skewed thinking and we will havbe a coffee and a good long catch-up chat after we have visited John.
Thank God for good neighbours, good friends and people who do not make judgements.
