Gary's Funeral

           
Had to say goodbye to Gary today. It was his funeral at Brenchley Gardens. A small group from Bede went to the service, though there were a large number in attendence.  It was quite emotional, very sad really, particularly I suppose, as his death was so sudden/and unexpected. Difficult for everyone and very hard for his family. I will miss  him, but I will not forget him. 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Inside-Outside

Charlene and I composed a short speech,presented last Friday by Nick.It went down pretty well-I don't seem to have a copy.Charlene got me a nice bracelet for Valentine and I bought her a digital watch,which she really seemed to like.There's another meeting on Friday,with regard to relationship issues.Later that evening, I hope to see Charlene again for a bit of a get together-looking forward to it.

  

Looking ahead

Aims for 2015 at Bede:

I'm looking for a job with Bede Plus; recycle the rubbish-don't forget to recycle cans, paper and plastic between 10am and 11.30am; work with the allotment group between 1pm and 3pm;

 more trips out with Bede during the year.

The latest...

I'm working on a short presentation speech (with Charlene), to welcome guests to Bede on Friday, for the 'Inside-Outside' tea party.

My mangled finger-quite swollen. Fortunately not broken-looks nasty though. 

Sad news, Gary my friend and a good friend to everyone at Bede, died on Sunday. I would like to offer my respects and condolences to his family. 
Thinking of you all at this sad time.    

The Workshop

The Friday workshop: it was helpful as Charlene and I were able to talk about our 
relationship. It was a bit frightening that we were actually going sit down and do that: how the relationship was working and maybe could work better. Could we behave and act responsibly?
Relationships between two people affect a lot of others and it can be difficult when they are also concerned about the person they care about. 

AND I got my little finger crushed in the door of a 37 bus the other day-more next time.

Friday workshop

I'm going to a workshop on Friday with my girlfriend Charlene (ten in the group in total). It's to talk/discuss issues to do with relationships. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it should be interesting and I hope I'm (we are) going to get some helpful information and advice. Will comment next time.

christmas

  I enjoyed half of Christmas and that was the first
half when I had dinner with my mum, quite a few aunties and a few of  my mums friends. It was relaxed and pretty easy going. The only thing though was that it was really crowded and it wasn't possible to dance.