Such a simple sentence but at times in life you might just find it a life saver. I certainly did two years ago when life turned upside down, and still there have been days when to move forward feels nigh on impossible. Slowly though you learn to take one step at a time, and occasionally it can feel great.

Other weeks, like this week, it might feel more like a lean forward than a move forward, but that’s okay too.

We were in Brussels for Robert’s 65th Birthday, and hadn’t planned our visit at all. Not like us to arrive in a new city with no idea of what we were going to do or see. However on this occasion we had done so much before from going to the paralympics to a Birthday meal with family in London to organising our Eurostar travel, we had kind of forgotten Brussels was our final destination. I still remember our joy when we stepped around a street corner and found ourselves stumbling upon this procession.

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  1. Our Memorial Day (used to be Veteran’s Day) was put at the end of May because that is when, in this part of the world, flower gardens are at their peak. It’s hard to take pictures of anything else because the flowers seem to be calling to you, showing their best side, and posing. Aside from a bird or two, it’s all flowers right now. I do love the magic as flowers bud and unfold.

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  3. Street processions are always fun, but are even better when you stumble on them – as if the universe offered a gift. I smiled at the head down, carry on Bob the Builder shot.

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      1. There’s a couple of places here I rarely visit anymore because they’ve become a thing on social media and a consequent zoo.

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  15. Ah yes, the wonderful serendipity of travel 🙂 Even when you’ve planned a trip, it’s often the surprise moments that linger longest in the memory!

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  18. I’m loving how this challenge is allowing you to share your memories of Robert with us, even though I know that they bring pain as well as joy to you. But it is good to talk about a loved one and remember the life shared.

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    1. Thanks Jude, you totally get it. One of the things I found hardest in the early days was the realisation that there were so many memories that only Robert and I knew about, and now only I knew. Writing about them in a journal is one thing, but the blog is so much better as others get to know them to and so they live on. Hope you can do the same with your and Alex’s memories.

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