“Are you still forgetting things?” “I don’t know, I can’t remember,” I said.”
~ Stephen King, Duma Key
Last night Angela’s husband came around to the farm for a roast dinner. It’s only a week since Angela passed away, and everything is so hard and new for him. Before her breast cancer diagnosis Ange had also suffered from lyme disease, and the tick which bit her left her with a profound red meat allergy. It’s been years since they’ve had red meat at their house. I promised her I would cook plenty of lamb roasts and steak barbeques for her husband, who has always loved that kind of food.
He arrived early enough that we could go check out the tawny frogmouth owl and her chicks in her precarious nest in the teak tree beside the kitchen, after which we ate well, drank red wine, told stories, problem-solved and let all of our collective dogs roam around the house or collapse at our feet in sandy heaps (after their beach adventures yesterday morning!).
The grief of Angela’s loss is raw for us all. But saying her name, laughing and remembering, and letting it be okay for tears to fall was good medicine.
It’s been a hectic month or so for me, and somehow when I sent out my blog post early yesterday with all of my coming courses and workshops I put the wrong email address on there. It’s all fixed on the post now, but for those of you who missed it here it is again. In fact, here are numerous contact details. I promise at least one of these will work:
You can contact me by email, via my wonderful PA, Dana at: nicolecodyinfo@gmail.com
and the link is nicolecodyinfo@gmail.com Dana works part-time and is a busy mum, so you won’t always get an instantaneous response, but she is awesome at getting back to people promptly and at helping you with whatever you might need.
My official website (forgive it, as it is old and in the process of being revamped for launch in 2016) is www.nicolecody.com and the contact form is here.
You can reach us by phone at +61 7 3256 0815 or at 0438 438 775 (that’s +61 438 438 775 for international callers)
We’re on facebook here: Cauldrons and Cupcakes and you can leave a message for me anytime!
and if you get really stuck, there is this email cauldronsandcupcakes@gmail.com – although it might take me a few days to get back to you as I am usually swamped with messages and emails. 🙂
It’s a bright sunny morning here at the farm, after days of broody skies and gloom, so my washing machine is busy turning muddy farm clothes and sandy couch covers back to clean. A day of chores and writing for me, and some gardening later, in the cool of the afternoon. But now it’s off to breakfast with Cafe Dog, who needs his daily fix of social. That’s him yesterday morning at the beach BEFORE he became one big sand monster!
Sending much,love to you all, Nicole (((HUGS))) xoxo
That’s what I told my children I wanted when I’m gone. A party to remember all my crazy antics. Celebrate the life I’ve lived, not the death. Just changing addresses. Send a postcard. 🙂 Your dogs are lucky to get to wander the beach. It makes me happy just to see them. Doing chores, I think grounds us again especially when we are grieving. Have a wonderful and ordinary day.