STEVE'S DAY

[stickyj]

I was thinking about OJ, Steve and the children just now and looking at the site where we can donate. Steve's funeral is next Wednesday and I for one will be there in spirit. I have lit candles and I will be donating because I can channel my tears into something. I just wondered how people felt about this idea...

If you've been here a while on MN you'll know about Maude and her pink balloons.

I wonder if Jo would choose a "Steve" colour and maybe we could all send a balloon up on Wednesday, so we're not intruding on the funeral but we make damn sure we're heard. I think if Jo saw any balloons, she'd smile. Maybe we could get balloons and draw teddy faces on them Good old Biggles!!

I have spent so long "living" this story that I would like to pay my respcts to not only OJ and family but to Steve too for being a really tough Dad, Husband and trifle eater!!

What do you MNetters think?!

Shall we have a teddy balloon release?

Know there will be spoonfulls of trifle raised in his honour next wed. Nice idea about balloons. Im happy to go along with whatever oj aproves of.

OK if you think it's not right/poo/presumptuos tell me.. But I will do it anyway 'cos I don't know what else to do besides candle and I'l do it anyway.

Presumptuous...(blush]

sounds like a lovely idea

My mum always made a Xmas Day trifle and I always do it in honour of her. I have her cut glass trifle dish and I WILL do my famous Xmas trifle for Steve The kids will be informed why and told to eat up!! They love my Xmas trifle and I will toast Steve with every bloomin' mouthfull!!

he seemed to have an emerald green aura, vitality, spark and love.
I know that sounds damned weird but I truly saw gorgeous emerald green around him in pictures
Along with trifle of course

I'd like to be part of something for jo and the kids too. Somehow in someway.

I think it's up to Jo...I have a colour I'd like and God knows, she has more to think about than this, but I know some MNetters are closer to her and they could maybe make a suggestion? I think that the kids might like to choose a colour for their Daddy too?

Sorry to be a spoilsport, but please, no balloons. Commemorating a good life should not involve environmental pollution.

OK aren't there any balloons that are EF?! Sorry but it was an idea and and I just wanted to let the world know about Steve,

OK what about bubbles then is that OK!! I will stand in my garden and blow millions of bubbles on Wednesday...

what a lovely idea Sticky! i've got a big pot of bubbles and will happily blow them on Wednesday.

There was something on the news today about mass balloon releases being bad for the environment. Nice thought though.

Bubbles is a lovely idea, I will stand in my garden on Wed and blow, thats a really lovely idea.

Bubbles and trifle sound very appropriate.

Balloons unfortunaely cause havoc with marine life so it is being requested to charities etc tehy don't do mass releases of them.

What about a "TRIFLE" day? As well as doing bubbles, what about doing a trifle day like the Mac's do a coffee morning, but do trifles instead? If you can't make one, buy one for whatever it costs and ask people to donate a sum for a chunk of trifle and a cup of whatever?!

I am close to this because my mum died of breast cancer when I was 26, just before I got married at 27. I KNOW she's around and I KNOW she never met my children but I like to think that she's looking out for us. OJ's family had the priviledge of knowing Steve but he also knew them for what they were. Brave, tough, kind and determined.

I think that in this world life goes on so quickly that even we stalwarts at MN forget about things that have happened and just dissolve into our daily life.

I will never forget Maude, GGG and now Steve.There are others on here that I cannot name, because there are too many for me to pick out, all those lost little ones/loved ones but I am proud to be part of this MN community. I know that we help where we can, we listen where we can and we remember wherever we can and it is appropriate.

The MAC nurses were with my MUM to the end, they "helped" her and I wish now that I'd had Jo's courage to ask questions and be more involved. No-one really talked about the end and that's why the MAC nurses are so important. They tell you what you don't want to hear, but have to hear. They are special people and they need more funding.

bubbles n trifle sound fab

Bubbles and trifle it is, and I shall aim to raise a little money from my generous colleagues for Macmillan.

bubbles and trifle sounds great. Will also have a candle lit in my window if we are in

OK I'm going with bubbles and trifle...I have classes on Wednesday so will be maybe making trifle for my mums I just wanted to say something, anything that wasn't trite/cliched or inappropriate. Bubbles always do it for the little ones I teach and if it's good for them, then I think it's OK for Steve. I also will be playing the Eva Cassidy song "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" 'cos that's the song I always use with bubbles when I teach.

Bubbles would be nice- balloons aren't good for Jo's latex/rubber allergy apart from anything else so not a Steve type thing!!(great idea though Sticky)

Lets all blow bubbles & eat trifle & if you want to do a trifle party & raise money for Macmillan please do!