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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #283 on: January 02, 2011, 22:32:18 PM »
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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #282 on: January 02, 2011, 22:05:30 PM »
Oh Mark  :hug: glad/ sad you can share the anniversary with Purrs. I hope you can both find space in your life for another furball, as I know you both have so much love to give and you have had a tough year.
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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #281 on: January 02, 2011, 16:34:36 PM »
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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #280 on: January 02, 2011, 14:55:59 PM »
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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #279 on: January 02, 2011, 13:43:14 PM »
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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #278 on: January 02, 2011, 11:41:17 AM »
:hug:  :hug:  Thats the thing with loss - it feels like yesterday and forever all at the same time.

Agreed. When your mind allows you to go back to losing a furbabe, it becomes almost raw and fresh again but at the same time there's a chasm of time between when you got to have them with you and the time you haven't. Sending you both hugs, Mark. :care:




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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #277 on: January 02, 2011, 10:13:49 AM »
Mark - Willow was beautiful  :hug: :hug: :hug:

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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #276 on: January 02, 2011, 10:13:03 AM »
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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #275 on: January 02, 2011, 10:00:38 AM »
OH doesn't seem to have realised so I won't mention it. It will only cause upset. One xmas gift I had planned but never got round to is taking lots of pictures off the PCs that haven't been used for 3 or 4 years and filling an album with prints. As handy as digital photos are, there is nothing like looking at photos in a book.
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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #274 on: January 02, 2011, 01:12:39 AM »
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:hug:  :hug:  Thats the thing with loss - it feels like yesterday and forever all at the same time.

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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #273 on: January 02, 2011, 01:12:23 AM »
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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #272 on: January 02, 2011, 00:40:53 AM »
 :hug:  :hug:  Thats the thing with loss - it feels like yesterday and forever all at the same time.

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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #271 on: January 02, 2011, 00:33:24 AM »
I can't believe it's a year since we took Willow to the vet for the last time.

We still think about you often Willow. You were so loved   :Luv2:


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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #270 on: March 22, 2010, 10:14:15 AM »
It's terrible isn't it?  We love them so much and miss them so much but time will help you to heal  :hug:

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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #269 on: March 22, 2010, 09:23:58 AM »
Thanks MM  :hug:

We miss our baby  :(

It is amazing how much quieter the house seems as she had such a huge personality and was always into everything. It is odd when I open the ironing board up, not having a cat landing on it - the same goes with bleaching kitchen counters, opening the front door, working on the laptop at a table etc etc  :Luv2: Also outside in the garden, she was always standing up against my leg wanting to be picked up  :Luv2:

I don't miss her little "liquid gold" gifts though    :shy:
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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #268 on: March 21, 2010, 12:28:11 PM »
Me too Mark, not been around for ages.  I am so very sorry to hear about Willow.  She was such a lucky cat to have you to love and look after her.  Big hug  :hug:

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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #267 on: February 26, 2010, 16:46:07 PM »
Thanks Kate  :hug:

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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #266 on: February 26, 2010, 16:02:26 PM »
Mark, I'm so very sorry. I haven't been on Purrs really and have just seen your very sad news. RIP little Willow. My thoughts are with you  :hug:

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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #265 on: February 23, 2010, 17:39:15 PM »
I'm still hoping to get soapstone boxes for my two, Mark. Glad you found something and Willows plant's doing well. :hug:




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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #264 on: February 23, 2010, 16:32:35 PM »
Thanks FB  :hug:

i haven't looked at this thread and I'm not ready to read through it yet, but I have finally found a nice glass jar in Wilkinsons that the container the ashes came back in will fit. I have been searching all over. I have the plant, pot and soil so will do it over the next few days. The Camellia is beginning to flower. I have kept it indoors in the oriel window so it has had plenty of light but I'm sure it will need planting very soon.
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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #263 on: January 21, 2010, 18:51:04 PM »
Oh no Mark I haven't been on here much so I missed this - so sorry to hear you lost your beloved little Willow xxx

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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #262 on: January 20, 2010, 21:44:02 PM »
I looked through my purse the other day and found a checklist of things I wanted to ask the vet when I last took Jack; I put it back in my purse. My partner asked why I'd done that and I said it still upset me a lot to see it in there, but at some point it would hurt less and then I'd know I was progressing through the grieving stages. It's an odd way to do things, I know.

I'm glad Dennis is OK and you don't feel too bad. I think you should've interrupted the garden centre assistants; cheeky so and so's ignoring you.




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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #261 on: January 20, 2010, 21:39:22 PM »
Thanks. I looked in the garden centre but couldn't see anything. I went to the indoor bit to ask but the 3 members of staff were in deep conversation about football or something. I waited a while and gave up and left. We have plenty of other garden centres here. I will go again on Saturday. Luckily OH isn't fazed and said he is glad she is back with us.

I had to go through plastic boxes of stuff today - there were plenty of papers etc that still had reminders of Willow on them  :shy:
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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #260 on: January 20, 2010, 21:32:03 PM »
there are dwarf willows, Mark, which will do very well in a decent sized pot

and are tough enough to be planted now, as long as you make sure they get lots of water, especially if the compost/soil is frozen
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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #259 on: January 20, 2010, 20:25:41 PM »
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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #258 on: January 20, 2010, 20:17:45 PM »
Oh Mark  :hug: :hug: :hug:

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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #257 on: January 20, 2010, 17:28:04 PM »
It was mixed emotions. I made a pathetic joke about the container looking like Yardley talc and that I could give it to my mum for xmas. Lynn, the practice manager said she had to collect her dad's ashes - and even worse, her mum knocked them off the mantelpiece  :-: - she didn't want to use the hoover so used a dustpan and brush  :evillaugh:
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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #256 on: January 20, 2010, 13:31:58 PM »
I think that's a lovely idea  :hug:

Be prepared for mixed emotions when you collect the ashes - its lovely to bring them home, but it all seems so final, even though we know they're gone.  I thought I was going to be OK when I collected Max, but I was in absolute pieces sat in the car for 10 minutes balling my eyes out  :shy:

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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #255 on: January 20, 2010, 13:08:29 PM »
:hug: Mark

a Willow sounds lovely  :Luv:
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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #254 on: January 20, 2010, 11:40:23 AM »
I think I am going to pick her ashes up today.

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A willow would be lovely - I'm sure the garden centre will advise the best time to plant.
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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #253 on: January 20, 2010, 06:49:52 AM »
I think I am going to pick her ashes up today. I'm not sure exactly what we are doing yet as OH seems to change the subject when I talk about it. I brought the subject up this morning but OH has an important meeting today so I didn't want to push the issue. There is no real rush. I think we will get a Willow plant/bush - We have a garden centre at college so I will see what they have there tomorrow. I am guessing a young plant/shrub couldn't be planted outside yet?

I think OH is beginning to come to terms as he said we can get a runner for the hallway - the previous 3 were all peed on repeatedly and had to be thrown.
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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #252 on: January 11, 2010, 17:51:02 PM »
Thanks everyone - she is missed  :(
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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #251 on: January 11, 2010, 15:45:31 PM »
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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #250 on: January 11, 2010, 15:22:26 PM »
I just saw this post, Mark; I"m so very very sorry for your loss. She was a lovely girl, reminds me so much of my beloved Lucia. My most sincere condolences to you and your family.

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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #249 on: January 11, 2010, 13:27:47 PM »
Of course, Mark.  :hug: Just making the offer if it helps the situation... always hard to know what is least upsetting.  :'( :doh:

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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #248 on: January 11, 2010, 13:25:30 PM »
Thanks Julie - do you mind if I speak to Dennis first? as I'm not sure where they would go at the moment. He is having a tough time with it all so I want to try to do what's best.
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« Reply #247 on: January 11, 2010, 13:11:44 PM »
Mark, would you like one of us to collect them and bring them to you? Angela, Caroline and myself are in and out of there all week.  :hug: :hug:

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Re: Willow - Our baby has gone
« Reply #246 on: January 11, 2010, 13:08:55 PM »
Thanks everyone.

The vets have just phoned. Willow's ashes are ready to collect. I will have to wait until next week to collect them as I have exams.

I have a horrible feeling now - It sort of makes it even more real  :'(
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« Reply #245 on: January 09, 2010, 14:43:36 PM »
I have only just caught up with this thread Mark. I am so sorry.
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« Reply #244 on: January 08, 2010, 20:32:11 PM »
Hi Mark,

I'm so sorry to hear about Willow. 
One of our little ones is called Willow too.

Hope you're OK.

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