French Gumtrees???

When Thomas Hardy was alive, his experiences encompassed a small section of England. Tess of the D'Urbervilles lost her horse as she took goods to the market. How far away and afield is such experiences for us today? To be stranded with a small brother, on a cart that no longer has a horse, and a walking we must go? I don't think so. Maybe the car breaks down, & we thumb a lift. The resulting story for Tess was disastrous, and you must read or listen or download information on the net to find out more.

Now. Our children, when they 'flee the coop', don't just 'pop of to West Essex', but they fly miles overseas to Australia, Vietnam, Thailand, London and Paris, not forsaking Lismore and Wollongong. They go a long, long way away. They succeed in their own way. The discovery for us all is that we cannot run from anything, and that life and love is right there in our own backyards. This info, of course, goes back years. We are simply the recipients of such courses of life. Tristan and Julian, when they visit Nelson Elliott, must take their mother with them. A difficult thing. Time and money now are the factor. Julian did mention that she would think of the mother who had not met the father in her life.

The best that she could do under the circumstances. the mother hoped for a photograph of the father that she had never met, with the two children who she never saw or spent time with. She would put this pic on her wall of her small room with a large bathroom that looked like her future years would be spent in, as most older people in this system of things had to look forward to.

Connection.

Communication,

That's what life is all about.

Push for it, people.

www.gumtree.com

& let's look after our wonderful, older, beautiful, accomplished, and hidden talents of our older citizens.

Parents cope. Grandparents cope. Needs Must.

Where do we go when we need somewhere to stay. A job. A freind. A relationship. If we have no bible based relationships, and family are far away, we need www.gumtree.com

A friend in need is a friend in deed.