We Visit Liverpool And Kirkdale

We Visit Liverpool And Kirkdale

We have been on our travels this month! It had been such a long while since I'd been up to Liverpool, and we had a special reason to visit this time: we had booked a table for a champagne tea at Panoramic 34, and invited a dear friend to come and share the afternoon with us.

Panoramic 34 is, of course, where I booked for everyone to join us after Mum's funeral in September 2020; we have good memories of that afternoon, and I am sure Mum was looking down on us and smiling whilst we talked about her, and celebrated her life. 

Before finding parking at the venue, we first drove to Kirkdale, and visited Mum's grave. We always find it easily, because it is next to the headstone with Aunt Marion's name on it. 

All the hardy erica and rockery plants we put in last year had not survived the drought and very hot summer, so it was looking very bare. We visited the florist across the road and decided to get a couple of pots of artificial flowers, which looked lovely - and hopefully will last a little longer. We filled out the cards the florist gave us, and inserted them in the little holder provided, and then did our best to make sure the pots were placed as firmly as we could get them, into the ground. 

 

The little pots mark the place where Mum, Grandma, my Grandfather and Uncle Austen are all resting, and they certainly make a bright splash of colour and show we have been there to care and and pray and think of them.

Wendy said when she is next in Liverpool, she will come to Kirkdale and add a card for Mum, and Grandma; and in due course, when things have settled down a bit more, I must look into arranging a headstone for them. 

Mum always said she would like an open book design, so that the four names can be easily inscribed:

Austin Woods; John Woods; Alice Woods (nee Thompson) and Phyllis Audrey Whitwell (nee Woods).

We shall fulfill that promise for her.