It’s been 8 years since our son died. After all this time I finally managed to remove from his bedroom wall, the cards he received from his last birthday. His 14th. He had blue-tak’d them there himself and I didn’t want to remove what he’d chosen to display. However the blue tak was deteriorating and the cards were full of dust…so I took them down! I still have our son’s rubbish bin, still full of the stuff he’d thrown in it. Luckily, it was scrap paper, empty Coke cans and broken toys and stationery. I wonder if other bereaved people keep ’strange’ mementoes!
