As a small child, I spent a lot of time with my very precious grandparents. During the summer holidays I was forced to watch hours and hours and hours of cricket which drove me insane, I just wanted to watch cartoons... But I remember clear as day, laying across my Grandads knee, him tickling my back and explaining all the rules to me or telling me cricketing stories from his past, my Nana would chip in with her stories of being a score keeper and before I knew it.. I was a closet cricket fan.. I would love spending my summer holidays watching cricket, the BBC cricket theme tune would grab my attention and I would be engrossed for hours. I would make my Nana and Grandad tell me their stories or show me their photos.. and they are honestly some of my favourite ever memories of my childhood.
My Grandad died in July 2009 which devastated me, I'd never really lost anyone that special before.. I'd lost my hero. I remember saying to my Nana "this year, we'll win the Ashes and it'll be for grandad" fast forward a few weeks and I was at V Festival, watching The Specials on the main stage with the boys and The Specials announced that we'd bloody won!
The emotions that ran through me in the space of 20 seconds was immense - pride, happiness, sadness etc. I had this huge wanting feeling.. I wanted to see my Grandad, I wanted to call my Nana, I wanted my mummy to cuddle me.. none of these things were possible so I just burst into tears!! There is nothing worse than being with a group of boys, whilst crying and they have no idea what you're crying about!! I regained my composure and raised my drink to my hero, my Grandad.. I know that he was up there celebrating in my true Grandads style :)
As mentioned before, my Nana died in January 2010.. This Ashes.. I said to myself "they'll win the Ashes so my Nana and Grandad can celebrate together" we've retained them.. now all I need is for them to win the series and I shall be a happy bunny on so many levels - however, I would swap every single England Ashes win to see my beautiful grandparents again, as they were before they were poorly xxx
My beautiful grandparents xxx
To lose a loving person is really hard. But there are so many reminder of to these persons. They allways live in our heart.
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Wow Hun. That was so moving. You've got me welling up here. Big hugs to you xxx
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