andy and i are in geneva visiting his dad and step mum. we arrived on sunday night after our plane had been delayed for an hour which wouldn't have been too bad except that we couldn't find a burger king in heathrow and marie clare magazing seems to have got smaller giving me less junk to read!

we went to jo and shawn's wedding on saturday in oxford at st. aldate's church which was great. it is so nice to go to a non-sheffield wedding occasionally just to remind ourselves that it is ok to break the mould! while we were at the wedding i got to see mary black and gabi dixon, friends from school, who i hadn't seen for 7 years - very weird!! fab though to get together and still be going for God and get excited together about it!

i was challenged about being culturally sensitive - not something i do particularly well - sensitivity has never been my strong point!

poppy has now been cremated (which was awful) and his ashes are now buried in the village churchyard where my granny lives. i've been thinking a bit about death and how our culture is so de-sensitised to it all - even to the extent that they drain the blood from dead bodies and refill with a pink liquid to get rid of the grey, ashen colour that death brings. when i went to see poppy on the morning of the funeral, i didn't expect him to look 'normal' - i thought he would look pale - that he would look 'dead' - the give-away signs were the fact that he wasn't breathing, his normally rounded tummy had sunken into his lower back and although he appeared as if sleeping, his mouth was uncharacteristically closed - not the 'catching flies' position that was his trademark!

nick beese has admired my use of html to create the wide expanse on our blog - he even suggested we market a t-shirt which uses this unique design!!