Mum

Your passing leaves a big hole that lets the sea come in with the tide in great waves. But you gave us all a great gift of your love, smiles, humour, music and joie de vie! Remembering that helps me fill the hole with flowers bound together by music. Your great gift with Dad to Charlotte and me of creativity through music and art gives us a way to soothe our soul, help others be touched and shed light in dark places.

Thank you Mum and "thankyou for the music, the songs I'm singing, Thanks for all the joy they're bringing, Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty, What would life be? Without a song or a dance what are we?, So I say thank you for the music, for giving it to me" as it says in another of your favourite Abba pieces.

We've been so lucky to know the girl with golden hair who wanted to sing out to everybody “What a joy, what a life, what a chance!”

Olly 🎻

*Lyrics - Thank You For The Music - Abba

I'm nothing special, in fact I'm a bit of a bore
If I tell a joke, you've probably heard it before
But I have a talent, a wonderful thing
'Cause everyone listens when I start to sing
I'm so grateful and proud
All I want is to sing it out loud

So I say
Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing
Thanks for all the joy they're bringing
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
What would life be?
Without a song or a dance what are we?
So I say thank you for the music
For giving it to me

Mother says I was a dancer before I could walk
She says I began to sing long before I could talk
And I've often wondered, how did it all start?
Who found out that nothing can capture a heart
Like a melody can?
Well, whoever it was, I'm a fan

I've been so lucky, I am the girl with golden hair
I wanna sing it out to everybody
What a joy, what a life, what a chance!