Post on Mum

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+date: 2024-10-12T14:32:59.420Z
+publishDate: 2024-10-12T20:57:59.420Z
+title: Miss you Mum
+media:
+  - url: mum.jpg
+    alt: My Mum in the top-front (best) seat of a London bus, smiling at the camera.
+  - url: then.jpg
+    alt: Some of my close family in Westonbirt Arboretum, a good 30 years ago. My cousins Jenny & Jon on the outside, my Mum on the right and her twin sister Kate on the left, and my brother (left) and me (right) at the back.
+  - url: now.jpg
+    alt: Yvette and I in front of one of Westonbirt's glorious Japanese Acer trees today, with the leaves going from a yellow-green on the bottom of the tree, up to a rich rouge at the top.
+location:
+  type: geo
+  name: Westonbirt Arboretum's Acer Glade
+  latitude: 51.609934
+  longitude: -2.212386
+tags:
+  - Westonbirt
+  - Mum
+  - death
+---
+I'm missing my late Mum especially today. It's the first anniversary of her death, and to remember her we went to one of her favourite places: [Westonbirt Arboretum](https://www.forestryengland.uk/westonbirt-the-national-arboretum).
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+I was very happy when my Aunt (Mum's twin sister) agreed to join my wife & I for the day; her love of trees parallels my Mum's, so we enjoyed a long afternoon of walking through the _glorious_ forests, and in particular the [Acer glade](https://www.forestryengland.uk/westonbirt/national-collections).
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+The time of year was _perfect_ for our visit, with the (world famous!) collection of Japanese Acer trees going every shade of orange and red.
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+I've spent _literally_ my entire life visiting this beautiful place with my Mum (my parents brought me home from the hospital to our home adjacent to this very arboretum), and I hope I'll be able to visit here for many years to come, not least to be with her.