{"id":1156,"date":"2011-09-19T20:02:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T19:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2011-09-20T11:27:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T10:27:38","slug":"a-slice-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/09\/19\/a-slice-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"A slice of history."},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted this previously on my (now much neglected) Moblog<\/a> but after visiting my grandparents tonight I wanted to share it here too.<\/p>\n

My Grandad is really poorly again, I live in fear of the day he will no longer be around – he was is and always will be one of the main men in my life and I love him lots.<\/p>\n

A Family Photo<\/h3>\n

This photo was taken before I was born, we think around 1978\/79. It has all the most important men from my childhood\u00c2\u00a0included in it, It’s like a capsule containing my whole life history!<\/p>\n

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This man is Pete. He’s my Dad….<\/h3>\n

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….He died suddenly in 1985, I\u00c2\u00a0was only 4. One day he was here, the next he was gone – I don’t miss him all the time – that sounds harsh but it’s true – I was too young to really\u00c2\u00a0appreciate\u00c2\u00a0what I had and then it was gone. \u00c2\u00a0I never had the chance to get to know the man my dad was growing up and only really started questioning my roots as I got older. I missed having a Dad and the paternal side to my family more than I missed the man that was Peter Jennings – I just wasn’t given the\u00c2\u00a0opportunity\u00c2\u00a0to know him and I think I grieve for that more than I do for him at times.<\/p>\n

This man is Tony, my maternal Grandad….<\/h3>\n

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..My sister and I went with my Mom\u00c2\u00a0and lived with my grandparents for a short while after my Dad passed away. \u00c2\u00a0My Mom needed the space and a chance to grieve and recover from the shock of becoming a\u00c2\u00a0widow and single parent overnight. We were only there for a couple of months but the effects lasted a lifetime.<\/p>\n

While everyone else was pushing their luck and hearing “You just\u00c2\u00a0wait until you father gets home!!” This is the man I was I had to wait to get home, I adored him as a child, he was my Grandad, my stand in father figure and my friend, as a small girl I would often climb the tree by the bus stop and wait for him to get home from work when he’d scoop me up and carry me home on his shoulders, as a teen he had the best technique for help towel dry hair and as a young adult, pregnant and\u00c2\u00a0suffering\u00c2\u00a0from morning sickness he made the only thing I\u00c2\u00a0could\u00c2\u00a0stomache, the most divine poached egg on toast!<\/p>\n

He\u00c2\u00a0was, and still is my rock and I know I could\u00c2\u00a0still go to him for anything! He’s been with me FOREVER!<\/p>\n

Now this man is Dave, he was one of Dad’s very good friends before his death and now he is\u00c2\u00a0now my Stepdad!<\/h3>\n

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My Mom and Dave got together when I was 14 and married in\u00c2\u00a02001 when I was 20. When he moved in we were going through my Dads vinyl record collection together and Dave pulled our a couple of records that had actually belonged to him.<\/p>\n

I truly would not wish for her to be with anyone else! He\u00c2\u00a0is a fantastic Dad to me, my sister and brother and a devoted Grandad to Jordan. \u00c2\u00a0He’s supported my Mom through thick and thin and cared for us all for years and I’m glad it\u00c2\u00a0was him my mom married!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I posted this previously on my (now much neglected) Moblog but after visiting my grandparents tonight I wanted to share it here too. My Grandad is really poorly again, I live in fear of the day he will no longer be around – he was is and always will be one of the main men … Continue reading A slice of history.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[63,95,320],"tags":[404,210,405,557,403,232,227,211],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-health","category-memory","tag-archive","tag-childhood","tag-death","tag-family","tag-history","tag-life","tag-love","tag-memories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-iE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1639,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/07\/17\/being-brave-my-body\/","url_meta":{"origin":1156,"position":0},"title":"Being Brave – My body","date":"July 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This is me - part naked, exposed and posting this before I chicken out - this is in response the\u00a0BBC article\u00a0-\u00a0Are women's bodies still beautiful after pregnancy?\u00a0I read and subsequently shared it on Facebook \u00a0and it led to a really refreshing conversation with a group of my friends - all\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Facts About Me"","img":{"alt_text":"Being Brave","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2892\/9307343153_645f01307c.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":103,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/12\/january-19th\/","url_meta":{"origin":1156,"position":1},"title":"January 19th","date":"January 12, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Exactly a week from today is the most dreaded date in the history of all dreaded dates!!I'm not usually a very superstitious person, I walk under ladders, I dont mind black cats and I do not feel compelled to go chucking salt about if I ever spill it, HOWEVER as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "WBIAGW"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1061,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/02\/the-remnants-of-a-quake\/","url_meta":{"origin":1156,"position":2},"title":"The remnants of a quake","date":"June 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday after I posted my #NZpicoftheday Dan Slee sent me a message: Which actually should have been a challenge as New Zealand is land of beautiful scenery, but mainly comprising of the mountains and the sea, so not a lot of red.... until recently. 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