Woven With Gold Strings: So far so big!

Monday, May 20, 2013

So far so big!

May 2013

Yesterday we had a lovely evening walk onto Grange Promenade through meadows, from Kent Bank, passing some beautiful gardens and pussy cats. On the prom we tried out the various playgrounds - the ones designed for children and teenagers and the one for grown ups! What was really special was seeing all the swallows AND swifts AND house martins! And we saw our first ever goldcrest - tiny, beautiful, charming, dashing about. We also spotted some lovely Acers in full leaf and quite mature - giving us an idea as to what space to allow for our ‘Kinran’. What a lot it has already grown in a year!

May 2012

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David.

Woven with Gold Strings

When we found ourselves without our beloved Smeagol, we realised how much we missed the company of a cat. He had been with us both for fifteen years and I had got him when he was just eight weeks old. Smeagol passed away in March 2012, he would have been twenty years old that year!

We decided to plant an acer tree and bury his ashes under it. We found the tree we wanted from Abi and Tom's Garden Plants, a Kinran acer. Tom told us Kinran translated to Woven with Gold Strings.

Whilst we were deliberating about getting another cat and whether another cat could replace Smeagol, a stray cat started paying visits to our garden. He looked very young and was remarkably similar in appearance to Smeagol. He took to sleeping under Smeagol’s acer tree by the back door and when he finally decided to come into our house, he took to sleeping on his chair too!

Nearly one year later, Strider is as much a part of our home as Smeagol ever was.

I recently started a blog about how my Mum & Dad met and married in India. There are so many wonderful old black & white family photos of us all as children and of Mum & Dad when they were younger. Sunlight from the Nilgiris is about our history. As much as I enjoy writing about these old photos from our past, I’ve decided I also want to write about and show photos from more recent times, including today and tomorrow.... and it’s not just about cats!