| Location | Javea, Alicante, Spain |
| Age | 82 years |
| Cause of Death | Leukaemia |
| Date of Birth | 29/01/1928 |
| Date of Death | 02/08/2010 |
| Visitors | 3,412 since 23/09/2010 |
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WELCOME TO CHARLIE'S GARDEN XX
. . . . . . . For my darling husband Charlie with love always xx
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. . .. [♥ღ ღ♥]۞۩๑๑۩۞۩๑๑۩۞۩๑۞۩๑๑۩۞۩๑๑۩۞۩๑
My other half almost joined at the hip and together for 56 years (married for 53) passed away within four days of being in hospital. Having battled oesophagus and stomach cancer 13 years ago where 4 inches of his gullet was taken away and 2 thirds of his stomach also.Operated on in Hare field hospital who definitely saved his life at that time. All was well for about a year but this anaemia of the blood called Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinaemia (it makes the immune system very weak) which meant he had to take chemotherapy tablets every six weeks (9 per day for 5 days) this treatment worked fine for nearly thirteen years but because he needed a cataract operation on both eyes he was given tests before the operation itself and it was discovered that he had an irregular heart beat so they prescribed a blood thinner and tablets.Also took him off the chemotherapy tablets and put him on thirteen weeks of actual chemotherapy. This is where it started to go wrong for him...... The first cataract operation went fine and he was really happy and said "if the second one is as good as this it will be great" Unfortunately after the second operation on his right eye he caught an infection in it because of his immune system being so low which finally resulted in the loss of the sight in his right eye which absolutely devastated him, that was in May. June and July showed much deterioration in his health, the weakness of his immune system slowly affecting his other organs. I can't dwell on these last few months because to see someone so strong and determined to beat his health issues finally having to succumb to becoming so weak and hardly able to walk was so sad for me to see, all I could do was to look after him and help him as much as I could but he seemed to know that this illness was finally beating him and he was getting a lot of pain, he did say that he wouldn't want to live if this was the way it was going to be. Little did I realize that when we went on the Friday morning for a routine blood test for him that from the surgery he would be taken to hospital where he died on the Monday. It was quite surreal. The two most important women in his life was with him that was his daughter Maxene and myself when he passed ~ Still cannot believe it.....
About his life which I feel I must write about....
Went as a boy rating on the HMS Vindicatrix at Sharpness at the age of fourteen, a very hard life for a boy of that age but he said that was the making of him and taught him just how to be a man and believe me he was a real man. From there served aboard tankers on coastal runs and the on Liners starting as a pantry boy and worked his way up to third catering officer with such lines as Shaw Saville and the White Star Line he did a few world cruises and saw a lot of the world. He then met me in 1954, we courted for 2 years, got engaged and married in September 1957.
We had a wonderful life together of course we had arguments tell me what married couple doesn't but so many happy times, holidays a real camaraderie together, liked the same music and enjoyed life,liked dancing. Worked together for a number of years in.Greengrocery where we both worked hard and in retirement enjoyed the rewards of it all. Everyone thought that if we did leave England for a warmer climate that we would go to Cyprus where we spent many happy holidays and once had an apartment, so when we decided to come to Spain I think everyone was a bit surprised, nevertheless that is where we ended up and for most of the last eight years have been extremely contented and happy, it was only these last eight months when things started to go wrong. I have his ashes here with me at the moment but I know he wanted to go back to his dear England and be scattered at sea together with the ashes of his beloved dogs Ollie,Jessie and Jay which we have always kept. At some stage I will make sure his wishes are kept but at the moment he has to stay with me just a little bit longer. Together for such a long time it will be hard to finally part but he will be here forever in my heart, photos and music that we both loved. At the funeral I had played "Unforgettable" by Engelbert Humperdinck and "The Last Farewell" by Roger Whittaker, so apt I thought.
God Bless, never forgotten, you know I love you.
Anita xx
†[♥]† Consummation of Grief †[♥]†
I even hear the mountains
the way they laugh
up and down their blue sides
and down in the water
the fish cry
and the water
is their tears.
I listen to the water
on nights I drink away
and the sadness becomes so great
I hear it in my clock
it becomes knobs upon my dresser
it becomes paper on the floor
it becomes a shoehorn
a laundry ticket
it becomes
cigarette smoke
climbing a chapel of dark vines…
it matters little
very little love is not so bad
or very little life
what counts
is waiting on walls
I was born for this
I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead.
~ Charles Bukowski
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HOURS
WHEN the bright stars came out last night,
And the dew lay on the flowers,
I had a vision of delight—
A dream of by-gone hours.
Those hours that came and fled so fast,
Of pleasure or of pain,
As phantoms rose from out the past
Before my eyes again.
With beating heart did I behold
A train of joyous hours,
Lit with the radiant light of old,
And, smiling, crowned with flowers.
And some were hours of childish sorrow,
A mimicry of pain,
That through their tears looked for a morrow
They knew must smile again.
Those hours of hope that longed for life,
And wished their part begun,
And ere the summons to the strife,
Dreamed that the field was won.
I knew the echo of their voice,
The starry crowns they wore;
The vision made my soul rejoice
With the old thrill of yore.
I knew the perfume of their flowers;
The glorious shining rays
Around these happy smiling hours
Were lit in by-gone days.
Oh stay, I cried—bright visions, stay,
And leave me not forlorn!
But, smiling still, they passed away,
Like shadows of the morn.
One spirit still remained, and cried,
"Thy soul shall ne'er forget!"
He standeth ever by my side—
The phantom called Regret!
But still the spirits rose, and there
Were weary hours of pain,
And anxious hours of fear and care
Bound by an iron chain.
Dim shadows came of lonely hours,
That shunned the light of day,
And in the opening smile of flowers
Saw only quick decay.
Calm hours that sought the starry skies
For heavenly lore were there;
With folded hands and earnest eyes,
I knew the hours of prayer.
Stern hours that darkened the sun's light,
Heralds of coming woes,
With trailing wings, before my sight
From the dim past arose.
As each dark vision passed and spoke
I prayed it to depart:
At each some buried sorrow woke
And stirred within my heart.
Until these hours of pain and care
Lifted their tearful eyes,
Spread their dark pinions in the air
And passed into the skies.
~ Adelaide Anne Procter
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Belated Birthday Wishes. xxx
Birthdays Do Not End With Death
Birthdays do not end with death,
But last as long as love,
A maelstrom of memories
That grace and honor move.
And so we celebrate your day
By visiting your grave,
A place that you have left long since,
But is all that we have.
Dear spirit, come and join us here,
Your loved ones by your stone!
Come sweep across the barrier
To claim us as your own!
Happy birthday, dearest one!
Oh, happy, happy day!
Not even the most bitter night
Can take this joy away!
Copyright Nicholas Gordon
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Love everlasting is etched in the sands of time.
~ Sandra S. Corona
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being to timelessness as it's to time ღ♥ღ
being to timelessness as it's to time,
love did no more begin than love will end:
where nothing is to breathe to stroll to swim
love is the air the ocean and the land
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love is the voice under all silences,
the hope which has no opposite in fear:
the strength so strong mere force is feebleness:
the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
~ ee cummings
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Death is at once
The end of the body’s
Old journey
And the beginning of the soul’s
New journey.
~ Sri Chinmoy
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To Myself
Even when I forget you
I go on looking for you
I believe I would know you
I keep remembering you
sometimes long ago but then
other times I am sure you
were here a moment before
and the air is still alive
around where you were and I
think then I can recognize
you who are always the same
who pretend to be time but
you are not time and who speak
in the words but you are not
what they say you who are not
lost when I do not find you
~ W.S Merwin
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(...-♥') .-♥')) ♥.--.- ♥ MISS YOU
The New Year…✿⊹✿
It is winter and the New Year.
Nobody knows you.
Away from the stars, from the rain of light,
you lie under the weather of stones.
There is no thread to lead you back.
Your friends doze in the dark
of pleasure and cannot remember.
Nobody knows you. You are the neighbor of nothing.
You do not see the rain falling and the man walking away,
the soiled wind blowing its ashes across the city.
You do not see the sun dragging the moon like an echo.
You do not see the bruised heart go up in flames,
the skulls of the innocent turn into smoke.
You do not see the scars of plenty, the eyes without light.
It is over. It is winter and the New Year.
The meek are hauling their skins into heaven.
The hopeless are suffering the cold with those who have nothing to hide.
It is over and nobody knows you.
There is starlight drifting on the black water.
There are stones in the sea no one has seen.
There is a shore and people are waiting.
And nothing comes back.
Because it is over.
Because there is silence instead of a name.
Because it is winter and the New Year.
~ Mark Strand ~
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Love is an eternal light.
Infinite.
The thread that binds every beautiful memory
and amazing moment...ღ♥ღ
~ Toni Carmine Salerno
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All finite things reveal infinitude:
The mountain with its singular bright shade
Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow,
The after-light upon ice-burdened pines;
Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope,
A scene beloved of bees;
Silence of water above a sunken tree:
The pure serene of memory of one man,--
A ripple widening from a single stone
Winding around the waters of the world…ღ♥ღ
~ Theodore Roethke
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*✫* Christmas Secrets *✫*
Underneath a winter sky
a distant train sings out the miles.
So I imagine, it may be,
that every mile brings you to me.
A promise made may still come true,
so I am waiting here for you,
if you don’t come, what will I do?
Who shall I tell my secrets to?
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Christmas bells ring out their chimes,
I hear them echo through the miles,
and moonlight shines upon the road
and trembles on the fallen snow
I look into the midnight blue
So many stars I never knew.
If you don’t come, what will I do?
Who shall I tell my secrets to?
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I look into the midnight blue
So many stars I never knew.
If you don’t come, what will I do?
Who shall I tell my secrets to?
~ Sung by Enya, lyrics by Roma Ryan ~
Copyright Ⓒ2006 EMI
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A LITTLE LONGER
A little longer yet—a little longer,
Shall violets bloom for thee, and sweet birds sing;
And the lime branches where soft winds are blowing,
Shall murmur the sweet promise of the Spring!
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A little longer yet—a little longer,
Thou shalt behold the quiet of the morn;
While tender grasses and awakening flowers
Send up a golden mist to greet the dawn!
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A little longer yet—a little longer,
The tenderness of twilight shall be thine,
The rosy clouds that float o'er dying daylight,
Nor fade till trembling stars begin to shine.
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A little longer yet—a little longer,
Shall starry night be beautiful for thee;
And the cold moon shall look through the blue silence,
Flooding her silver path upon the sea.
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A little longer yet—a little longer,
Life shall be thine; life with its power to will;
Life with its strength to bear, to love, to conquer,
Bringing its thousand joys thy heart to fill.
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A little longer yet—a little longer,
The voices thou hast loved shall charm thine ear;
And thy true heart, that now beats quick to hear them,
A little longer yet shall hold them dear.
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A little longer yet—joy while thou mayest;
Love and rejoice! for time has nought in store;
And soon the darkness of the grave shall bid thee
Love and rejoice and feel and know no more.
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A little longer still—Patience, Beloved:
A little longer still, ere Heaven unroll
The Glory, and the Brightness, and the Wonder,
Eternal, and divine, that waits thy Soul!
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A little longer ere Life true, immortal,
(Not this our shadowy Life,) will be thine own;
And thou shalt stand where winged Arch-angels worship,
And trembling bow before the Great White Throne.
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A little longer still, and Heaven awaits thee,
And fills thy spirit with a great delight;
Then our pale joys will seem a dream for-gotten,
Our Sun a darkness, and our Day a Night.
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A little longer, and thy Heart, Beloved,
Shall beat for ever with a Love divine;
And joy so pure, so mighty, so eternal,
No creature knows and lives, will then be thine.
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A little longer yet—and angel voices
Shall ring in heavenly chant upon thine ear;
Angels and Saints await thee, and God needs thee:
Beloved, can we bid thee linger here!
~ Adelaide Anne Procter
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And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look what happens with love like that.
It lights up the sky. ♥ڿڰۣಌ
~ Hafiz
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Love is not something that comes from another.
It is a state of being that comes from within.
The Love that is inside of you is without conditions or expectations.
It is not limited or restricted by time and space in any way.
Unlike physical Love this Love will never diminish or fade with time.
It is eternal and will not ever let you down.
I promise you that it will always be there to let the Light in
and guide you safely Home.
Love connects each of us to one another
and is the underlying energy behind all things.
Love literally is everything. ♥ڿڰۣಌ
~ Paul Adkins
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