Doesn't matter what degree of poignancy, just something which had an effect on you at that time and made you think.

Could be anything as life-changing as childbirth, to something as trivial as this.

I decided that today I am not even going to get out of my yarmies. I started to get cold, so thought I should get dressed. Just put on my dressing gown and slippers instead, though. I sighed happily to myself, which lead me to start this thread.

Please share with the group.

Edited to say, just noted that this was my 444th post, another poignant moment shared as it happened.

Well I just nearly cried whilst watching Charles and Camilla driving to the registry office... :cry: I feel so unbelievably emotional right now! I''m so happy for them!

There's a certain stretch of road in Scotland, that whenever I come round the corner and see the view, I always think 'nearly home now'.

Miss Dab III is working her gap year a long way from home. She's roughing it and getting stuck in (she's a right little grafter) but her evenings and days off are terribly lonely. She rang at 7 this morning and when we were saying bye bye she said, "Dad, I just need a cuddle...."

:cry: :hug: :cry:

Miss Dab III is working her gap year a long way from home. She's roughing it and getting stuck in (she's a right little grafter) but her evenings and days off are terribly lonely. She rang at 7 this morning and when we were saying bye bye she said, "Dad, I just need a cuddle...."



:cry: you have just made me well up Dab! :cry:

Big hugs to you :hug:

Miss Dab III is working her gap year a long way from home. She's roughing it and getting stuck in (she's a right little grafter) but her evenings and days off are terribly lonely. She rang at 7 this morning and when we were saying bye bye she said, "Dad, I just need a cuddle...."

:cry: :hug: :cry:

ahhh - is she anywhere near Pompey? She can come and have Sunday dinner tomorrow with us!

Ah, thanks ILS :hug:

And Dol, what a lovely offer! You darling! But she's in the other direction, I'm afraid - on the Scilly Isles.

Miss Dab III is working her gap year a long way from home. She's roughing it and getting stuck in (she's a right little grafter) but her evenings and days off are terribly lonely. She rang at 7 this morning and when we were saying bye bye she said, "Dad, I just need a cuddle...."

:cry: :hug: :cry:


Awwww Dab, I welled up too....bless her.....send her a cyber hug on email from all of us :hug:

ahhh - is she anywhere near Pompey? She can come and have Sunday dinner tomorrow with us!


Now you have just tipped me over the edge, you lovely lady :hug:

Awwww Dab, I welled up too....bless her.....send her a cyber hug on email from all of us :hug:

Now you lot have got me welling up!

Thanks Isis, I will.

Now you lot have got me welling up!

Thanks Isis, I will.

typical girlies arent we :laugh:

Oh dab, big hug to you AND your daughter...maybe she could come to our meet in June...she could be you by proxy.

Today I had a poignant moment....I drove to the other side of Bedford to deliver a pressy for my brothers g/f. She is staying with her mum who lives in the area I grew up in....so I went for a drive to see my old house (lived there from aged 4 - 23'ish). I was so suprised that everything seem so unchanged...the house was so familiar as was the roads and the area. Took me back it did.

:wub: to you all Dabs. My chin wobbled for you.

Oh Dab - what a moment?? Big lip wobbling moment I bet for you. :wub: She'' get her cuddle soon enough though when she comes home.

This morning I watched the sun rise from on top of a rather large temple.

It was poignant if not epic.

cheerio!

Watching Charles and Camilla today made me feel sad and happy, a couple so in love for so long but not allowed to be together becasue of circumstances.
At this moment I am missing my Mr Bob cos we can't be together right now,

I'm thinking of a moment last month when we were cuddled up together on the edge of Lake Louise, we didn't notice anyone else and didn't speak for about ten minutes just held onto each other feeling sorrow and joy at the same time, loving each other so much it hurts.

Oh, Bob. I know that feelling, not that I get it any more. But you feel like you have a weight pushing down on your chest all the time.

Don't want to go back there again and hope you're back together again soon.

:wink_kiss

This morning I watched the sun rise from on top of a rather large temple.

It was poignant if not epic.

cheerio!


............cool!

Oh, Bob. I know that feelling, not that I get it any more. :wink_kiss


Sorry Patsy but this made me larf....and why do you want to kiss bob? Are you hoping to get that same feeling back from her?

Cat you rascal!
Patsy- :hug:

Aww Dabs, you know it makes me appreciate that I still have my girls at home, but I know that day will come when we have to let them go and discover that big world out there. I bet you felt like just jumping on a plane and getting over there to give her a cuddle. When will you see her next?

Sorry to be morbid but I'll never forget the moment I just happened to be listening in on my 9 year old daughter's phone call and heard her friend say 'Robert's dead'. One of my daughter's class mates and his sister had been killed in a car crash. An awful, awful time.

We've just been watching some video footage of the little boy and it's completely heartbreaking and unreal.

I have a poignant moment everytime I think of Blink's baby .... which is often at the moment. Right now it's got me reduced to gibbering wreck. Life can seem so tragically unfair sometimes can't it?

Aww Dabs, you know it makes me appreciate that I still have my girls at home, but I know that day will come when we have to let them go and discover that big world out there. I bet you felt like just jumping on a plane and getting over there to give her a cuddle. When will you see her next?

September, Bella. We'll all cope, but it does seem like a long way away.

September. We'll all cope, but it does seem like a long way away.

Oh that is a long time dab :cry:

Miss ils went back to uni yesterday and I won't see her now until June and I thought that was bad enough, big hugs to you and yours :hug:

Thanks ILS :hug: Thanks to all of you lubbly friends. :hug:

She's riding over to the island farm after work today, to meet a baby calf whose mother died. Many many cuddle opportunities there, I reckon. :)

Sorry to be morbid but I'll never forget the moment I just happened to be listening in on my 9 year old daughter's phone call and heard her friend say 'Robert's dead'. One of my daughter's class mates and his sister had been killed in a car crash. An awful, awful time.

We've just been watching some video footage of the little boy and it's completely heartbreaking and unreal.


Oh, Max, how terrible. That sent chills down my back. How devastating for their family and classmates.

I have a poignant moment everytime I think of Blink's baby .... which is often at the moment. Right now it's got me reduced to gibbering wreck. Life can seem so tragically unfair sometimes can't it?

I've shed more than one tear over that too.....

I was chief bridesmaid at my best mates wedding last Saturday. It was very poignant as it was a year ago that her mum died of cancer and we all had a little weep as we looked at her in her wedding dress and thought how proud her mum would have been. Then the tears came again when her dad made his speech and said what we were all thinking. It was a very happy/very sad day.

Poignant moment: when your baby who suffers from cerebral palsy and rarely smiles, is in a happy mood, smiles, coos and even chuckles. :wub:

I've got a big lump in my throat reading through this thread.

I really shouldn't read this thread when I am work, as I now have everyone asking me why I have tears in my eyes....

Poignant moment: when your baby who suffers from cerebral palsy and rarely smiles, is in a happy mood, smiles, coos and even chuckles. :wub:

Aww, Blink I bet you are so proud of them! They are blessed to have a dad like you! :)

Well, as if I'm not weepy enough reading all these I'm going to try and share this moment without cracking up completely.

Most of you know that I lost my eldest son, age 35, to a heart attack. I always associate him with Rainbows because he belonged to a theatrical group called Rainbow Productions and shortly after he died we were on the way to relatives in Wales and I saw the biggest full rainbow I had ever seen. A full arc and bright luminous colours.

So often when I am feeling a bit down I say "send me a Rainbow Steve".

Last week I popped round to Mazwad for a cuppa and on the way back, as I pass the cemetery, I found myself turning in. I don't go there very often, it upsets me too much. I tidied up the flowers, blubbed my eyes out as usual and came away wondering why I put myself through it.

As I left the cemetery I flicked on the CD player and the song that came on was "somewhere over the Rainbow". It was kinda spooky and although I still had tears streaming down my face my tummy kinda smiled.

(If you think "over the rainbow" was a funny thing to have on a CD, it was a compilation I'd made up myself and it was the version that they used in the TV Commerical - can't remember what it was for, but it starts off with Over the Rainbow and ends up with What a Wonderful World. I'd forgotten it was even on that CD cos it's quite a mixture of stuff).

I have welled up and got a lump in my throat at reading all of your posts, and I can empathise with many......

Bright Blessings to one and all :hug:

Wow - what a powerful thread. Hugs to all.:hug:

As I left the cemetery I flicked on the CD player and the song that came on was "somewhere over the Rainbow". It was kinda spooky and although I still had tears streaming down my face my tummy kinda smiled.


I didn't know about this Crit, as I'm new, so sorry. Although I'm not a mad believer in of clairvoyants and the like, I believe there is something in it. I sometimes watch "Crossing Over with John Edward" on Living TV and, even though I know a lot of "psychics" are dubious to say the least, I think he is genuine. He is not show-biz and packs a lot into one show, focusing very much on the "realness" and humour in people who have passed. One thing he said is that you don't have to go somewhere or touch something or look at anything specific when you want to reach your lost loved one. They are there all the time and know when you need a sign, you just have to look out for it.

Have you ever been to a clairvoyant? I have, a couple of times and haven't been particularly impressed. I have a friend who lives in Christchurch and she and her family used to go to the same woman every few years and she was always spot on the button.

I don't know if you would want to do this, Crit. If you don't, I know from what you have said that Steve is always with you and you can take great comfort from that.

xx

Well, I'm not new, but I haven't been around as much lately as I used to be and I didn't know about this tragic event in your life either Critique. :sad: My heartfelt sympathy.

As a parent, you don't expect your kids to "go" before you do, so it seems terribly unfair when it happens. But you can take comfort in the fact that your rainbow is there watching out for you.

Right - I'm outta here now. My eyes are stinging something rotten.

I think this thread shows how comfortable people are here.

Critique :hug:, as Karen says nothing can prepare you for your children going before you, it just doesn't seem natural does it? Critique has shown that in a relatively short space of time that she has been a member here that she can come here and have some kind of release, and that there will always be someone to say a caring word.

I'll think of your son everytime I see a rainbow now! :)

Big hugs to Critique and Blink :hug: who's posts have reduced me to tears today!

It's very poignant every time I visit my gran's grave. She died just at the end of Feb there and she was the first grandparent I have ever lost so to be honest haven't really knew how to cope with it all. Ive been to visit her grave every day since then except about four or five. Still miss her but I love going up there with my mum and dad or on my own just to talk to her :)

What a very sad but lovely thread this is. :)

Ah, that's lovely Peej. Your granny was lucky that she was so loved. To visit a grave can be very theraputic for those left behind, but she is always with you. :hug: