Personal – Page 2 – Life Through Ordinary Eyes

Just One Hour in Pennington, Leigh.

As I sit in the spring sunshine in my garden, in the heart of Pennington, I’m amazed at what I saw in “just one hour.” It’s quite relaxing apart from the rumbles of vehicles driving up and down the A580 East Lancs Road, aircraft departing Manchester Airport flying overhead, joining…

May 9, 2023

Community, family, Life, Personal, Uncategorized

Admire, consideration, grief, grieving, heritage, Leigh, listening, outdoors, respect, wellbeing

Restoration of weathered garden ornaments

I wrote a short piece on 05th June 2022 called “Restoration of an old fountain” just to back track the purpose of the story. Sadly my fiancée lost her mother Susan Dickens in January 2022, Susan left us on her 67th birthday, the shock has been unmeasurable to us all…

Jul 22, 2022

family, funeral, Life, Personal, Uncategorized

Admire, caring, family, grief, honour, imagination, Leigh, outdoors, parents, powerful, Rememberence, respect

Pennington our own little Manor

How much do you really know about our area of Pennington? now I knew we had a long history dating back many centuries, I know our area was very prominent in the region, but I didn’t know our full history, the property I live in is probably somewhere in the…

Jul 17, 2022

Community, history, Life, Personal, Uncategorized

Cultural, heritage, history, imagination, intrigue, ourhistory, outdoors, society, story, village

Step back in time in Kirkby Lonsdale & Kendal.

Me and my fiancée Michelle both up at 0800 the boys still sleeping a peek out the curtains the rain is falling heavy typical winter English weather, a hot cup of tea to start the day followed by a lightly toasted piece of bread, smothered in Lurpack butter yum. Boys…

Oct 28, 2021

Community, Day out, family, Life, Personal, Uncategorized

devils bridge, family, familytime, goodtimes, kendal, kendal Castle, Kirkby Lonsdale, Lake District

No Second Chances.

There are many jobs, many professions, many businesses, where if at the first attempt you don’t get it right, you have the ability to have a second shot to rectify your mistake, in my role as a Funeral Director there are second chances, no opportunity to fix mistakes. The very…

Oct 25, 2021

Community, funeral, Life, Personal, Uncategorized

caring, compassion, consideration, empathy, funeral, grief, listening, Rememberence, respect