Just having a cry over asparagus

[LawrieForShepherdsBoy]

Asparagus now in shops again. This time last year my mum could still go to the supermarket with me. We ate a lot of asparagus. She’s so much worse now. My dad was dx with dementia too since then. They are both well looked after but seeing asparagus in co-op just now has done me in.

I’ll apologise in advance- I know I’ll go silent and not return to this thread. I’m just in car trying to pull myself together before I go home.

Beautiful memories...

Oh bless you all.
DDad died over 30 years ago. He was veggie before it was mainstream. It's tins of butter beans that trigger me.

@LawrieForShepherdsBoy Sending good thoughts your way. I’ll munch on asparagus this spring and think of you and your Dps.

I remember when my DF passed away, it was peanut brittle that ‘got’ me first. It comes on when you’re least expecting it. I was a total mess too.

DF was a huge fan of pork pies and black pudding ( both hugely rationed by DM) so a nicely laid out butchers would always draw him across the street.

Nowadays I find myself drawn to gaze into the butchers and I’m not a huge meat eater!

I'm so sorry.
It is indeed the little things that get to you.

Sending you hugs.

Sympathy OP, in my experience you can often gird your loins for the expected occasions like Christmas etc, but those kind of unexpected things hit you in the solar plexus. My Mum used to volunteer for the Poppy Appeal every November and the first year after she died I cried every time I saw a poppy seller.