The big toast

7PM Last Monday in May

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Our community members open up about the special people they’re honoring this Celebrations Day.

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My Mother was the inspiration of my life in so many ways. She was incredibly beautiful and stylish, but really born of a different time, which I have to say really means that I was born of a different time too, my mother was born in 1913. 

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Celebrating so many wonderful memories and that we will have them forever. When I think of Grandad, I remember his incredible sense of fun. He was a Bon Viveur, he enjoyed the good things in life. He loved a joke, he loved a party and he loved to dance.

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I like to imagine dear Mufasa running along the beach like this - happy, free, and waiting for us, as if no time has passed.

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I have quite a few different tracks that remind me of Paul. But when I first started seeing him, he was listening to Angie Stone. There is a track on her album called ‘Wish I Didn’t Miss You’ and it really reminds me of him. 

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My beautiful grandmother - a forever fountain of glamour, love and wisdom. She adored Late Fragment by Raymond Carver: 

"And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth."

Safe to say she was absolutely that ♡

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My Uncle Robert loved discovery and freedom. He had the courage to explore the new and the unknown. Remembering him.

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Oh how we miss you - and that deep, infectious laugh that came from the pit of your stomach. I think of you, and celebrate you always... especially when baking your delicious gooey chocolate chip cookies xxx

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There’s so much joy in this photo of me and my Great Grandma - Nanny Alice. Whilst I was young when she died, I still treasure these photos of us. What a privilege for her to have lived long enough to see the next three generations of Hancock women. Her legacy is a line of strong, resilient women.

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We called my grandma Muffy because none of us 9 grandchildren could pronounce ‘Murial’. She was my best friend, and I was lucky to have her in my life until I turned 30. I still keep our WhatsApp chat, I look at it when I want to feel close to her - she is still my biggest inspiration.