All Souls Day

[Nicos]

Hi all
Tis a Bank Holiday here.
Loads of peeps visiting the local cemetery taking chrysanthemum plants to their family graves.

I quite like the idea of taking time this All Souls Day to look back and remember happy times with people who are now not living.

I spent 20 mins this morning just recalling times with my grandparents, father , aunts and uncles.
I have one granny I was particularly fond of- and my father who died when I was a teenager.
Nice memories !

Gosh- the things I'd like to ask them now!

Is there anyone you would particularly like to think about?

[veggiechicken]

For me, All Souls Day means a holiday in Sicily when we were given biscuits in the shape of skulls and bones by people we met on the streets - and the shop windows were piled high with these biscuits and brightly decorated . It appealed to my macabre sense of humour - so I shall remember that holiday back in the mid 70s and he who was with me who is now a member of the All Souls party.

[Florence Fennel]

It's All Saints Day in my house Nicos, one of my mum's favourite days of the year as she said it was a "good" day. She also called Halloween "All Hallows Eve". Lovely to reflect, thank you

[WendyC]

In a round about way I've been thinking about my Grandma today. I'm in the middle of a long overdue clear out of my sewing box. In it are a small sewing box and tape measure, which is so shredded to be unuseable, which she gave me for my 6th birthday. Will I throw them out? No of course not. She also taught me to knit.

[Nicos]

Well- that's interesting...and confusing to me, because I've just done a goooogle and yes- it IS all Saints Day here too - and apparently tomorrow is All Souls Day.

BUT all the French peeps I have spoken to are telling me it's in memory of their loved ones and not Saints.

[alldigging]

All Saints All Saints' Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not to be confused with
All Saints (group) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Aberdeenplotter]

Is there anyone you would particularly like to think about?

Yups, my first girlfiend who dumped me. SHe doesn't know what she's missed

p.s. fiend is not a mis-spell

[binley100]

My mum would've loved the craft fairs..great salesperson. I remember the chap who came to service the boiler going away with two pair of earrings she sold him

[bearded bloke]

In my yoof I adopted a "spare" family,"dad & mum" have joined the party but are never to be forgot,in fact me & my "spare bruvver" were talking about them over dinner last weekend,so many happy memories,gone but not forgotten

[Patchninja]

The Bretons have lots of spooky stories ...... they have the Grim Reaper that all of France doesn't have oddly enough. He's called Ankou. They also believed that the noise you hear in the countryside is the sound of the dead moaning and groaning so what you do for Halloween - Toussaint here, is light a huge fire in your fireplace. Then, you must open the front and back door of your house to let the evil out, and the poor, cold souls in to warm themselves. Mr P just goes and cleans the family graves and they put the flowers on the tombs. As Nicos said, the cemetaries are really pretty now.

[ancee]

Yesterday I was listening to an album in the car, I've had it a few years now, but only ever skipped to the songs I like. Yesterday, it was playing without any interruption from me, and a song I usually skip played on. Stuck in traffic and listening to the lyrics, my eyes filled up, and I had to skip it again! The lyrics are lovely.
"I'm collecting people's tears they cried because they miss you,
They fill the seas and all the lakes,
With memories the wind blew,
I'd run out of jars before a second could pass,
Didn't have enough time with you to turn the hourglass." Speaks volumes. Paloma Faith - My Legs are weak. Filling up again! Must stop listening to this....