Om Atripla Online - Pharmacy you can trust! http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/ Nothing to do with standards, even less to do with wombats, only vaguely a blog Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:39:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Om Atripla Online - Pharmacy you can trust! http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/comment-page-1/#comment-71774 Ryan Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:08:30 +0000 http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/#comment-71774 Thsi must be difficult to write Ian. Thank you for sharing such intimate thoughts in a moving way. Thsi must be difficult to write Ian. Thank you for sharing such intimate thoughts in a moving way.

]]> Om Atripla Online - Pharmacy you can trust! http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/comment-page-1/#comment-71570 barbara lloyd Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:55:35 +0000 http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/#comment-71570 Dear Ian,finally managed to read your blog-what can I say-well done. So sad the way his life turned out,but at least he left behind three great kids.love mum xxx Dear Ian,finally managed to read your blog-what can I say-well done. So sad the way his life turned out,but at least he left behind three great kids.love mum xxx

]]> Om Atripla Online - Pharmacy you can trust! http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/comment-page-1/#comment-68116 LOUIZE HATT Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:25:15 +0000 http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/#comment-68116 Hi Ian, Im your cousin too!!!, Maggies daughter Louize. Just wanted to say Im really sorry about your Dad, I have lovely memories of him,. It would be fab to see you Karen and Andrew again, take care, love Louize.xxx Hi Ian,
Im your cousin too!!!, Maggies daughter Louize. Just wanted to say Im really sorry about your Dad, I have lovely memories of him,. It would be fab to see you Karen and Andrew again, take care,
love Louize.xxx

]]> Om Atripla Online - Pharmacy you can trust! http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/comment-page-1/#comment-62703 Lloydi Thu, 24 May 2007 20:31:30 +0000 http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/#comment-62703 To anyone who commented on how this must have been a difficult piece to write: actually, not really. Well, maybe a bit, but perhaps not for the reasons you'd expect. I wanted to put down my thoughts, and also thought it was a good way of explaining the situation to people who might think it odd that I was *not* emotional about the whole situation. the difficulty I had was actually one of creative writing - do I write *to* Dad? Or about him? And I wanted it not to be slushy and come across all 'woe is me', and hopefully it didn't, as I'm not after sympathy or anything. Like I said, just wanted to put down my thoughts and the fact that others have appreciated them is definitely a bonus :-) Actually, strange though it may seem (or maybe not having read all the above), in a weird kind of way I'm actually looking forward to whatever service we have for him, as it'll be an opportunity to catch up wth people who I haven't seen for note. Inevitably, we'll be 'comparing notes'! To anyone who commented on how this must have been a difficult piece to write: actually, not really. Well, maybe a bit, but perhaps not for the reasons you’d expect. I wanted to put down my thoughts, and also thought it was a good way of explaining the situation to people who might think it odd that I was *not* emotional about the whole situation. the difficulty I had was actually one of creative writing – do I write *to* Dad? Or about him? And I wanted it not to be slushy and come across all ‘woe is me’, and hopefully it didn’t, as I’m not after sympathy or anything. Like I said, just wanted to put down my thoughts and the fact that others have appreciated them is definitely a bonus :-)

Actually, strange though it may seem (or maybe not having read all the above), in a weird kind of way I’m actually looking forward to whatever service we have for him, as it’ll be an opportunity to catch up wth people who I haven’t seen for note. Inevitably, we’ll be ‘comparing notes’!

]]> Om Atripla Online - Pharmacy you can trust! http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/comment-page-1/#comment-62701 Lloydi Thu, 24 May 2007 20:26:18 +0000 http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/#comment-62701 Rayna, yes it is confusing, but I'm not Andy - John (aka Dad) had three childresn - Karen, Andrew and me, Ian. Karen is now Karen Freeman (through marriage) and I am Ian Lloyd through choice (changed name to my mum's remarried name), Andy kept Broadley as he didn't really need to change it. I only changed my name because I went through school for a while under the ludicrous sounding Ian Broadley-Lloyd (an assumed double barrell name). I had to drop one of those barrels! But all said and done, yes, I am still your cousin :-) Rayna, yes it is confusing, but I’m not Andy – John (aka Dad) had three childresn – Karen, Andrew and me, Ian. Karen is now Karen Freeman (through marriage) and I am Ian Lloyd through choice (changed name to my mum’s remarried name), Andy kept Broadley as he didn’t really need to change it. I only changed my name because I went through school for a while under the ludicrous sounding Ian Broadley-Lloyd (an assumed double barrell name). I had to drop one of those barrels!

But all said and done, yes, I am still your cousin :-)

]]> Om Atripla Online - Pharmacy you can trust! http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/comment-page-1/#comment-62249 Stina Tue, 22 May 2007 12:37:56 +0000 http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/#comment-62249 Hi! I surfed by to check out the new Fraggle-video and also read this piece. Very brave to it write down like this (as many have written) and you text helped me understand some of the relationships in my own family. You put words on something that's so hard to describe. Stina - Sweden Hi!
I surfed by to check out the new Fraggle-video and also read this piece. Very brave to it write down like this (as many have written) and you text helped me understand some of the relationships in my own family. You put words on something that’s so hard to describe.

Stina – Sweden

]]> Om Atripla Online - Pharmacy you can trust! http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/comment-page-1/#comment-62105 mattymcg Tue, 22 May 2007 00:21:49 +0000 http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/#comment-62105 That must have been difficult to write Ian. Thank you for sharing such intimate thoughts in a moving way. That must have been difficult to write Ian. Thank you for sharing such intimate thoughts in a moving way.

]]> Om Atripla Online - Pharmacy you can trust! http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/comment-page-1/#comment-61499 Jacob Sat, 19 May 2007 23:41:46 +0000 http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/#comment-61499 I don't know you but that was one of the best things I've read in a long time. As someone wrote, that was a brave piece. Peace, Jacob I don’t know you but that was one of the best things I’ve read in a long time. As someone wrote, that was a brave piece.

Peace,
Jacob

]]> Om Atripla Online - Pharmacy you can trust! http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/comment-page-1/#comment-61078 Karen Freeman Fri, 18 May 2007 07:51:55 +0000 http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/#comment-61078 Ian, this is perfect, and helps me explain to people who don't understand our relationship with Dad. I really couldn't have put it better myself. x Ian, this is perfect, and helps me explain to people who don’t understand our relationship with Dad. I really couldn’t have put it better myself. x

]]> Om Atripla Online - Pharmacy you can trust! http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/comment-page-1/#comment-59993 Rayna Smith Sun, 13 May 2007 20:32:40 +0000 http://lloydi.com/blog/2007/05/11/bye-dad/#comment-59993 Hi Ian, although Auntie Margaret calls you Andy!, we all seem to have different names, Margaret is Jackie and I was Lorraine Nowlan and now Rayna Smith. Hello, you must be my cousin (I think), my mum is your dads sister, Josephine. I am sorry about Uncle John your writing was very moving, I only have three memories of your family, one meeting at, I think at Beaulia (not sure on spelling as I cant spelll for toffee), I remember your Mum wearing a cardi longer that her jacket and we have always said you have "Auntie barbara's trouble" if we see anyone the same. (strange how saying's can stay all your life). We came to your house for I think for a firework party and your dad sent me a letter when he was in Saudi and that ment a lot to me. Your wedding look great, I hope you are happy and if you are ever passing Kettering, pop in. x x x x x x Rayna Smith Hi Ian, although Auntie Margaret calls you Andy!, we all seem to have different names, Margaret is Jackie and I was Lorraine Nowlan and now Rayna Smith. Hello, you must be my cousin (I think), my mum is your dads sister, Josephine. I am sorry about Uncle John your writing was very moving, I only have three memories of your family, one meeting at, I think at Beaulia (not sure on spelling as I cant spelll for toffee), I remember your Mum wearing a cardi longer that her jacket and we have always said you have “Auntie barbara’s trouble” if we see anyone the same. (strange how saying’s can stay all your life). We came to your house for I think for a firework party and your dad sent me a letter when he was in Saudi and that ment a lot to me.

Your wedding look great, I hope you are happy and if you are ever passing Kettering, pop in. x x x x x x
Rayna Smith

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